Topic 14: Personality and the self (PS111 test 2)

1. How are ratings used for personality assessments?

By measuring objective behaviour relevant to some aspects of personality
By presenting Ambiguous stimuli and asking for subjective interpretation
Provided by observers, indicating whether their friend/partner/stranger possesses certain chacteristics
By relying on self-report by the self-evaluation of certain behaviours, thoughts or feelings

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It is hard to say what a person is because life is not stable and a person is constantly changing
Stable internal factors make one person's behaviour consistent from one time to another and different from the behaviour other people would manifest in a comparable situation
There is no such thing as a personality, people raised in the same environment will turn out the same, there is no individual differences
You can't tell a persons personality by their behaviour because people can lie

That everyone is unique
That a series of items can not be reduced to a smaller set of underlying fundamental dimensions
That a series of items can be reduced to a smaller set of underlying fundamental dimensions
That people will give honest answers