Psych Assessment Finals (Unfinished)

Stable and distinct patterns of behavior that characterize an individual and his/her reactions to the environment

• PERSONALITY

• Personality Traits

relatively enduring dispositions; tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain manner in any given circumstance and that distinguish one person from another

• Personality Traits

• Personality Types

general description of people; emotional reaction that vary from one situation to another

• Personality Types

• PERSONALITY

a person’s self-definition; an organized and relatively consistent set of assumptions that a person has about himself or herself

• Self-Concept

• Personality Traits

Measures individual dispositions and preferences • Designed to identify characteristics and therefore do not have right or wrong answers

• PERSONALITY TESTS

• BEHAVIORAL TESTS

(unique characteristics)

• ideographically

• nomothetically

theory guided inventories, factor analytically derived inventories, criterion-keyed inventories.

• Construction strategies

• Structured strategies

Paper and pencil tests, often in multiple-choice or true or false formats • Assess various aspects of personality; often to increase client insight • Faster, objective, easier to score • High level of reliability and validity.

• STRUCTURED/OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TESTS

• PERSONALITY TESTS

one limitation of objective test due to social desirability

• Faking

• Familiarity

STRATEGY OF STRUCTURED PERSONALITY TESTS:

Deductive, Logical, Theoretical, Emperical.

• true

• false