U09 Psych 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.4: James W. Pennebaker, Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test
1 Jan 2017
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Personality refers to both unique and common characteristics. Idiographic approaches - person-centered approaches to assessing personality; they focus on individual lives and how various characteristics are integrated into unique persons: use a different metric for each person, assume that each person is unique. Central traits important for how individuals define themselves. Secondary traits less personally descriptive or not applicable. Ex: neo personality inventory - 240 items, that assess the big 5: minnesota multiphasic inventory (mmpi) - 567 true/false items that assess emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Also used to assess personality more generally. Has 10 scales that measure psychological problems such as depression, paranoia etc Using the scales, they generate a profile that indicates whether a persona is likely to have a psychological disorder: mmpi-2 has validity scales in addition to clinical scales. The validity scales measure the probability that respondents are being less.
