PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Strong Interest Inventory, 16Pf Questionnaire, California Psychological Inventory
2 Oct 2012
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Personality assessment is a professional activity of numerous research, clinical, and industrial psychologists, as well a prosperous business that seems to fullfill a persistent need. An individual"s personality consists of characteristic patterns of behaviour, thought, or emotional experience that exhibit relative consistency across time and situations. These patterns include many kinds of variable, including motives, intentions, goals, strategies, and subjective representations (the ways in which people perceive and construct their world) They indicate the degree to which a person desires one goal over another, or thinks the world is changeable as opposed to fixed. All of these variables and many others are relatively stable attribute of the psychological makeup of individuals, so in that sense they are all personality traits; and any attempt to measure them necessarily means personality assessment. Personality traits are a fundamental part of how we think about eachother and ourselves.
