PSC 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Actual Size, Content Validity, Type I And Type Ii Errors
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Psc 162: personality puzzle ch. 3- assessment, effect size and ethics. Personality assessment: evaluating how well personality tests predict behavior. Effect size: the strength of any research result. One of the most widely used personality tests in the world is the minnesota multiphasic. Designed for the clinical assessment of individuals with psychological difficulties. California psychological inventory (cpi) used for non-disturbed individuals. Ominous inventories: measure a wide range of personality traits. Tests of intelligence yield b data (iq tests) Projective hypothesis: if someone is asked to describe or interpret a meaningless or ambiguous stimulus, their answer cannot come from the stimulus itself, because the stimulus does not look like, or mean, anything. The answer must instead come from their needs, feelings, experiences, thought processes and other hidden aspects of the mind (b-data) The answer might even reveal something that the person does not know about themselves. Rorschach inkblot- asked clients what they saw in random inkblots.
