PSC 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Thematic Apperception Test, Null Hypothesis, Rorschach Test
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Any characteristic pattern of behavior, thought, or emotional experience that exhibits relative consistency across time & situations is part of an individual"s personality. These patterns include personality traits as well as psychological attributes such as goals, moods, & strategies. Personality assessment is a frequent activity of industrial & clinical psychologists. Everybody also assesses the personalities of the people they know in daily life. Personality testing is a big business that can have important consequences. But some personality tests are useless or even fraudulent, so it is important to understand how they are constructed & how they are used. Important issue for assessments - the degree to which those assessments are correct. Some personality tests yield s data & others yield b data, but a more common distinction is between projective tests & objective tests. All projective tests yield b data, most but not all objective tests yield s data.
