MMPI-2

BPI

• Clinical - Objective

• Normal - Objective

• Clinical - Subjective

• Normal - Subjective

16PF

CPI

• Clinical - Objective

• Normal - Objective

• Clinical - Subjective

• Normal - Subjective

Rorschach

Holtzman

• Clinical - Objective

• Normal - Objective

• Clinical - Subjective

• Normal - Subjective

HTP

TAT

ER’s

• Clinical - Objective

• Normal - Objective

• Clinical - Subjective

• Normal - Subjective

3 Domains of Assessment

• •Ability: What the person can do

  DAT

  WRAT-4

  IQ

• •Motive: What the person desires

  Career Guide Inventory

  Interest Tests

  Vocational

• •Personality: What the person is like (Traits)

Cattell’s View of the Person

• He viewed motivation as energy that is generated, transformed, and then discharged.

  •Energy propels behavior.

• Like Freud, Cattell viewed the individual as an energy system, functioning according to reinforcement and tension-reduction principles.

• Because Cattell’s work was so data-driven (rather than theory-driven), his view of the person is less important in understanding his theory of personality.

• •He proposed that some traits are largely learned, while others may be inherited.

• •Cattell tried to determine the environmental and hereditary contributions that make up each source trait by studying patterns of personality traits in families.

Cattell’s View of the Growth and Development:

• He viewed motivation as energy that is generated, transformed, and then discharged.

  •Energy propels behavior.

• Like Freud, Cattell viewed the individual as an energy system, functioning according to reinforcement and tension-reduction principles.

• Because Cattell’s work was so data-driven (rather than theory-driven), his view of the person is less important in understanding his theory of personality.

• •He proposed that some traits are largely learned, while others may be inherited.

• •Cattell tried to determine the environmental and hereditary contributions that make up each source trait by studying patterns of personality traits in families.

•There is a continuum of personality traits.

•Each person contains all of these 16 traits to a certain degree, but they might be high in some traits and low in others.

• Trait Theory

• Factor Analysis

•A correlation coefficient provides an index of the relationship between two or more variables.

•Factor analysis was invented - psychologist Charles Spearman

•A statistical technique for data reduction/reduction of categories

•Factor analysis allows the personality researcher to identify a smaller number of dimensions (factors) that the variables fit into

• Trait Theory

• Factor Analysis

Personality as it is revealed in everyday behavior

–L-data; data gathered over person’s life, school, work, community etc.

–Cattell first collected L data.

• •Life Data:

• •Question Data:

• •Test Data: