compare and contrast how each can be used in clinical assessment. Objective personality test assesses various aspects of personality. A projective test is designed to let a person respond to stimuli that reveal hidden emotions. 3. Describe the main purpose and the kinds of scales that are used in test interpretation, and the population for which it is geared. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory…
Study one’s findings support the authors’ claim about Asian American leadership experiences, while the second study presented with varied results regarding demographic and personality variables contributing to net worth. Kawahara et al. (2013) have several limitations suggested in the study due to the fact that they used data from an archive. One limitation noted in the study was the archival interview data, and the use of graduate…
individuals are asked to describe themselves, they will most likely start by naming off personality traits. Some of these personality traits named might be; kindness, friendliness, aggression, creative, curious and/or sociable. However, all these traits are subcategories of the Five Factor Model personality traits. This model focuses on the five superordinate traits that aim to encompass all other sub traits. These sub traits are: extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness and…
and self-esteem. A total of seventy-one undergraduate psychology students from a private university were recruited for this study. The participants were asked to fill up two questionnaires in regards to extraversion and self-esteem which were the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The relationship between the two variables was statistically analyzed using the Pearson’s r correlational test. This study hypothesized that there is a positive correlation between…
Criminal Profiling Future in Personality Psychology • Issue: Criminal profiling typically tends to fall under the field of criminal justice. However, much of the work pertaining to criminal profiling is related to personality psychology. • Position: In my opinion, I feel like criminal profiling should be considered a science rather than an art, because most work of the pertaining to profiling requires psychological insight. Once criminal profiling becomes a form of science, I then think that it…
Nature vs. Nurture: Personality Nurture The development of personality has led to much debate. Scientists have argued about what determines it or what affects it more – nature or nurture. There is a case to be made for both. Many believe that personality is determined by nature or, in other words, heredity and genetics. There is also a nurture theory to personality. First of all, nurture will be examined. Proponents of nurture argue that environmental factors influence a particular behavior and…
Defined by the differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, personality is as unique as a fingerprint. It is what differentiates us from other human beings and forms a person as a whole (“Personality”). Chapter 13 of David Myer’s Psychology focuses on personality and discusses its associated theories – the psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, and social-cognitive theories – as well as today’s research on one’s self. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian doctor of medicine, first…
Although we are all created equally, we are not created to function equally. It is our strengths and weaknesses that differentiate us and ultimately makes us unique to the world we live in. Understanding our individual personality traits and that of others, can create a more cohesive environment especially in our different organizations hence the benefit of the self assessment test. Similar to the Myers-Briggs test, this self assessment has helped identified how I would react in specific…
to the fact that she displays herself throughout the movie as someone who is full of anxiety as well as depression. Based on what I learned from trait theory in class, a personality trait is usually consistent over time. Through the character Carrie, I believe she falls directly into the Big Five Personality Traits and Carrie’s would be neuroticism. Trait theory explains Carrie’s behavior of being neurotic due to the fact that she is a high school student with a very low self-esteem, doesn’t…
self-monitoring, and proactive personality help us to understand personality? Please provide your responses to each element of this question.…