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11 Cards in this Set
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main features of personality
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Consistent patterns for each ind
Distinctive qualities for each ind |
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types of personality assessments
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Personality traits
Dynamic motivation Personal adjustment Psychiatric symptomatology Social skills Attitudinal characteristics |
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psychodynamic approach
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Structure of personality, id/ego/superego
personality concepts that can't be directly observed- rely on instruments that tape into things that people can't directly report projective tests= not direct questions |
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Behavioral approach
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why we behave certain way about what we've learned/how its gotten rewarded
history of learning over time can be accounted for/reported can teach client how to behave certain way |
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Humanistic
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analysis of immediate personal and subjective perspectives; Rogerian; affirming
express immediate experiences of who they are, what they're feeling sense of who you are- self concept, self esteem Tennessee Self Concept Scale |
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Trait Theories
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physical entities/mental structures of personality
enduring and affect how might behave in certain situation across time Myers Briggs- 4 dimensions, in each there is stronger in 1 extreme |
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Empirical Approaches
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doesn't start with theory about personality- relies on data to inform how to structure personality instrument
MMPI NEO |
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Informal Assessment of Personality
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Observation (cannot be subjective, unsystematic error may affect observations, limited representativenes of client's typical behavior, generalizability)
Interviewing (diagnostic or descriptive assessments; questions that directly assess personality) |
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Structured Personality Inventories
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4 basic methods (Anastasi/Ubrina)
Content related procedure (rational approach to item dev't) Personality theory (construct validation to determine if actually measures tenets of theory) Empirical criterion (items have relationship to some external criterion rather than based on content) Factor analysis (interrel of items and determine similarities of items that group together) |
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16 Personality Factor Questionnaire
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measure normal range personality, not to id psyhcopathology
strengths and weaknesses in personality traits over 17,000 adjectives related to "personality traits" Primary factors: warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self reliance, perfectionism, tension 185 items, 10-15 items/scale 30-50 min/ 25-35 min (computerized) 16+ with at least 5th grade ed. Coefficient alpha average .74 |
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator
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Extroversion- Introversion
Sensing-Intuition Thinking-Feeling Judging-Perceiving 4 letter codes, 16 personality types concern for social desirability --> answer questions in manner that is socially acceptable |
