PSYC 1101 Lecture 4: Personality

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Benjamin A.Wormwood

Document Summary

P s yc holog y 1101(e x am 4) Song of the day: excitable boy - worren zevon. An individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling. In general, explanations of personality are concerned with: prior events, anticipated events. S elf-report: a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives describe their own behavior or mental state. Minnes ota multiphas ic p ers onality in v ento ry (mmp i): a well-researched, clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems. T hem atic a pperc eption t es t: projective personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people. Barnum, who said, there is a sucker born every minute.