Gr 12 short slides on personality assessment

1. PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
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2. WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
 Personality the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's
distinctive character.

3. WHAT ARE PERSONALITY TYPES?

4. WHAT IS PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT?
 Personality assessment is the measurement of personal characteristic. (Philip S.
Holzman, Irwin G.Sarason, 1999)
 Assessment is the cultivating stage of gathering information intended to advance
psychological theory and research and to increase the probability that wise
decisions will be made in applied settings. (Philip S. Holzman, Irwin G.Sarason, 1999)

5. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT?
 Understand the behavior of a particular individual.
 Helps to conclude a conclusion about a possible future course of action.
 Helps make predications about a person’s unique future behavior.
 Predicts behavior of people.
 Adequately diagnose the presence and nature of psychological problem in a
person.

6. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF PERSONALITY TESTS?
 Interview
 Behavioral Observation
 Projective Tests
 Objective Personality Test

7. WHAT IS AN INTERVIEW?
 An interview is a conversation between two or more people where questions
are asked by the interviewer to elicit facts or statements from the interviewee.

8. WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF INTERVIEWS QUESTIONS?
 “Can you tell me a little about yourself?”
 “What are your greatest professional strengths?”
 “What do you consider to be your weaknesses?”
 “What is your greatest professional achievement?”
 “Where do you see yourself in five years?”

9. WHAT IS BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION?
Behavioral observation is drawing conclusions about an individual's personality based o
observations of his or her behaviors.

10. WHAT ARE PROJECTIVE TESTS?
 Tests that provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner
dynamics.
 Some types of projective tests:
• Thematic Apperception Test
• Rorschach Inkblot Test

11. WHAT IS THE THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST?
 Developed by Henry Murray, this test allows people to express their inner feelings and
interests through stories they make up about ambiguous scenes and pictures.

15. WHAT IS RORSCHACH'S INKBLOT TEST?
 A test composed of 10 inkblots designed by Herman Rorschach that seeks
to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the
blots.
 Rorschach’s test attempts to measure personality using unconscious
reactions to the images.

27. WHAT ARE OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TESTS?
 Objective Personality Tests present statements rather than ambiguous stimuli
characteristics of projective tests.
Some types of objective personality tests:
• MMPI
• Q-Sort
• MBTI

28. WHAT IS MMPI?
 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory assists psychologists in identifying personality
structure and psychopathology.

29. MMPI-2 QUESTIONS

30. WHAT IS Q-SORT?
 Quick sort is a systematic study of participant viewpoints. This test is
used to investigate the perspectives of participants who represent
different stances on an issue, by having participants rank and sort a
series of statements. (“Q-methodology”, 2014)

31. WHAT IS MBTI?
 The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective self-report questionnaire
designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the
world and make decisions. (“Myers–Briggs Type Indicator”, 2017)

33. REFERENCE LIST
 Philip S. Holzman, Irwin G.Sarason. (1999). Personality Assessment. Retrieved from:
https://global.britannica.com/science/personality-assessment
 Q-methodology. (2014, January 13). Retrieved March 10, 2017, from
http://www.betterevaluation.org/en/evaluation-options/qmethodology
 Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. (2017, March 07). Retrieved March 11, 2017, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator#Differences_from_Jung