Self Reflection On Personality Assessments

To determine a person’s needs psychologically a psychologist must first learn about the patient. Many tools are used to assist psychologist in diagnosing patients. These include clinical interviews, assessments, and even neurological tests. These tests may give us sufficient information about a patient as long as it has reliability, and validity. The personality assessments vary in different fields from introvert vs. extrovert to rough vs. mindfulness. The first test assessed whether I was an introvert or extrovert. The second test was a self-reflection test. The personality tests used a sequence from most like me to less like me when choosing my answers. The question were based on how I would most likely feel during or handle a situation. Some of the questions were set up with two words to choose form e.g. Patient or impatient. I think these tests can accurately identify behaviors and feelings using the …show more content…
My answers were based on how I felt that day. I think my emotions and behaviors vary at different points in my life. If the questionnaire was specific to situations then I think there wouldn’t be a variation of results. I personally thought through the test that if I took this a few days ago my answers would be different. I don’t think the self-reflection assessment was measuring exactly what was being tested either. There were too many variables that make the test less reliable. In contrast I do think the introvert vs. introvert personality assessment was a reliable test. I think I would consistently answer the questions the same due to its specificity. It is a valid form of testing because it is specifically testing if you are either introverted or extroverted. This test also seemed to assess my behaviors in certain social settings as well as how I feel in a social setting. I think that some of these questionnaires are appropriate for