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Psychology: A Journey, Second Edition, Dennis Coon

Chapter 10

Personality Assessment
• Interview: Face-to-face meeting designed to gain
information about someone’s personality, current
psychological state, or personal history
– Unstructured Interview: Conversation is
informal, and topics are discussed as they
arise
– Structured Interview: Follows a prearranged
plan, using a series of planned questions
• Direct Observation: Looking at behavior
Psychology: A Journey, Second Edition, Dennis Coon
Chapter 10

Other Types of Personality Assessments


• Behavioral Assessment: Recording the frequency of
specific behaviors
• Situational Test: Real life situations are simulated so that
someone’s spontaneous reactions can be recorded
• In-Basket Test: Simulates decision-making challenges
that executives face
– Basket full of memos is given to applicant, and
applicant must act appropriately as quickly as
possible
• Leaderless Group Discussion: Test of leadership that
simulates group decision making and problem solving
Psychology: A Journey, Second Edition, Dennis Coon
Chapter 10

More Types of Personality Assessments!


• Reliability: Does a test give close to the same score
each time it is given to the same person?
• Validity: Does the test measure what it claims to
measure?
• Personality Questionnaire: Paper-and-pencil test
consisting of questions that reveal personality aspects
– Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-
2): Widely used objective personality questionnaire
• Honesty (Integrity) Test: Assumes that poor attitudes
toward dishonest acts predispose a person to dishonest
behavior
Psychology: A Journey, Second Edition, Dennis Coon
Figure 10.9 Chapter 10

FIGURE 10.9 Sample rating scale items. To understand how the scale works, imagine someone
you know well. Where would you place check marks on each of the scales to rate that person’s
characteristics?
Psychology: A Journey, Second Edition, Dennis Coon
Chapter 10

Projective Tests
• Psychological tests that use ambiguous or unstructured
stimuli; person needs to describe the ambiguous stimuli
or make up stories about them
– Rorschach Technique: Developed by Swiss
psychologist Hermann Rorschach; contains 10
standardized inkblots (the “inkblot” test)
– Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): Developed by
Henry Murray, personality theorist; projective device
consisting of 20 drawings (black and white) of various
situations; people must make up stories about the
people in it
Psychology: A Journey, Second Edition, Dennis Coon
Chapter 10

Shyness
• Definition: Tendency to avoid others and feeling
uneasiness and strain when socializing
• Social Anxiety: Feeling of apprehension in the presence
of others
• Evaluation Fears: Fears of being inadequate,
embarrassed, ridiculed, or rejected
• Private Self-Consciousness: Attention to inner feelings,
thoughts, and fantasies
• Public Self-Consciousness: Intense awareness of
oneself as a social object

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