PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Personality Test, Face Validity, Thematic Apperception Test
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Psych 101: intro to psych - lecture 32 - personality: She handed out a sheet of paper with a circle and square and asked us to draw a picture to complete the shapes. The name of this personality test is the spurious personality inventory treating. The reason people could connect to it was because it was so general that most people could connect to it. Personality: characterize a person"s responses to life situations. distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that. William sheldon: personality assessment from body types. Doesn"t make sense, but a generation in the 70s believed this. Interviewers look at what is said and how it is said. Remote behavior sampling: categories of interest respondents as they live their daily lives. Objective measures: standard sets of questions that are scored using an agreed- on scoring key. Structured personality tests: paper-and-pencil tests consisting of questions that respondents answer in one of a few fixed ways.
