Personality Testing
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- Created on: 19-04-17 09:16
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- Personality Testing
- What?
- 'Reasonably stable patterns of behaviour that distinguish people from one another' (Mischel, 1986)
- Is behaviour predictable or situational?
- E.g. behave differently with a teacher than a friend
- Approaches
- Behaviourist
- Learning and experience e.g. tabula rasa
- Biological
- Innate drives and genetics
- Humanistic
- Subjective experiences, self concept and human potential for growth
- Psychoanalytic
- Childhood experiences, life stages and repression
- Cognitive
- Ways information is processed and filtered through schemas
- Behaviourist
- Testing
- Allport's structure of personality (1937)
- Cardinal traits - underpin all others e.g. being helpful
- Central traits - major characteristics e.g. honesty
- Secondary traits - more peripheral characteristics e.g. music tastes
- Cattell's structure-based systems theory (1980)
- What someone will do when placed in a given situation
- Surface traits - observed in the person
- Source traits - lie behind surface traits e.g. dominant behind assertive
- 16 PFQ to identify source traits
- E.g. somewhere on a continuum between reserved and outgoing
- Not all the traits are orthogonal
- Eysenck's personality types (1967)
- Extraversion vs introversion (E)
- Neuroticism vs stability (N)
- Psychoticismvs impulse control (P)
- Jung (1923) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Introvert vs extravert
- One's approach to others
- Sensing vs intuition
- How one gathers information
- Thinking vs feeling
- How one makes decisions
- Judging vs perceiving
- How one views the world
- Introvert vs extravert
- McCrae and Costa's (1985) Big Five
- Extraversion vs introversion (E) e.g. activity
- Agreeable vs disagreeable (A) e.g. compliance
- Conscientious vs irresponsible (C) e.g. competence
- Neuroticism vs stability (N) e.g. anxiety
- Open to experience vs closed to experience (O) e.g. values
- Allport's structure of personality (1937)
- What?
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