16PF

CPI

Rorschach

Holtzman

HTP

TAT

ER’s

3 Domains of Assessment

Cattell’s View of the Person

Cattell’s View of the Growth and Development:

•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.

•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

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.

Person’s self-report of any type

•Q-data: (questionnaire data); data gathered from self-reports & questionnaires

–Cattell next collected Q-data. Self-rating questionnaires.

Person’s responses to contrived situations, a non-conscious presentation or inferential (Projectives, IQ, Situation)

•T-data: (experimental/test data); which involves reactions to standardized experimental situations created in a lab where a subject’s behavior can be objectively observed and measured.

Social orientation; the desire to be around others and be noticed by them; the energy invested in initiating and maintaining social relationships.

The role a person assumes when interacting with others; the extent to which they are likely to influence or be influenced by the views of other people.

The way a person processes information; the extent to which they will solve problems at an objective, cognitive level or by using subjective or personal considerations.

Response to environmental controls on behavior; internal self-discipline.

Emotional adjustment; the types of emotions experienced and the intensity of these.

95 percentile call Fake Good; 5th percentile call fake bad

95 percentile call invalid

–Hand scoring you must make your own key

95 percentile invalid “true response set”; 5 percentile call invalid “false response set”

–Hand scoring you must make your own key

• It’s a bipolar scale

•Comprises of 12 items

•Items are scored exclusively for IM

•It’s a social desirability scale.

•High score show socially desirable responses.

•Low score shows willingness to admit undesirable attributes.

•IM includes items of self-deception & other-deception.

•High score show impression management (presenting yourself to others in desirable manner).

•Also a bipolar scale.

•Consist of 32 items

•High scores indicate random responding, inability to decide, reading or comprehension problem, desirability bias

•Raw scores of 8 or greater fall at or above the 95th percentile relative to the norm sample and are considered to be high.

•In general, a protocol is said to be invalid if the raw score is 6 or greater.

• scale measures the tendency to answer “true” to an item, no matter what its contents.

•This scale consists of 103 true-or-false items.

•All items on the ACQ scale are true-false items. A high score indicates an overall pattern of tending to respond “true” to items rather than choosing items based on the item content.

•An acquiescent response set also might indicate an unclear self-image or a high need for the testing professional’s approval.

•Raw scores of 71 or higher exceed the 95th percentile and are considered high.

•The testing professional should try to determine whether the high score reflects random, inconsistent or indecisive responding or a high need for approval.

Realistic

Investigative

Artistic

Social

Enterprising

Conventional. Some refer to these as ________________ or _________________ .

•People who choose to work in an environment similar to their personality type are ____________ likely to be successful and satisfied.