PPE 3003 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Individual Psychological Assessment, Heredity, Cognitive Psychology

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PPE 3003
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Modern personality theory began to take formal shape in the 1930s. Heavily influenced by allport, lewin, and murray gestalt psychology emphasized the integrative and active nature of perception and thought, suggesting that the whole may be greater than the sum of its parts. Mead showed the importance of studying personality across cultures and genders. Barnum effect the tendency to believe in the accuracy of vague generalities. Idiographic involved in the study of individual cases about one"s personality. Item response theory (irt) a mathematical approach to choosing test items in which the probability of a positive response to an item is determined by ther person"s estimated position on the underlying trait being measured. Acquiescence response set a bias in which people are more likely to agree than disagree with anything that is asked of them. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi) a comprehensive, self- report personality test that is focused on assessing psychopathology.