Theories of personality: Personailty research methods

For any rationally constructed S-data personality test to work, four conditions must hold. Which of the following answers are part of these vital conditions?

-The person who completes the test must be willing to report his self-assessment accurately.

-Each item must have the same meaning to the test taker as it does to the psychologist who wrote the test.

-All of the items on the test must be valid indicators of what the tester is trying to measure.

B - data

-experience - sampling data

-heart rate and skin conductance

A person’s reputation would be considered what type of data?

I - data

When might a researcher use a projective test instead of an objective test?

when a researcher is interested in collecting B- data rather than S- data

Clients tell stories about drawings of people and ambiguous events.

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

A participant in a psychology study rates how much they agree with a series of statements about their personality on a scale from 1 to 5.

objective test

Patients tell an analyst what they see in an inkblot.

Rorschach test

A participant in a psychology study interprets an ambiguous picture of members of various ethnicities in order to provide data on their unconscious prejudices.

projective test

A job applicant answers “yes” or “no” to a series of questions about their behavior.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Which of the following help to explain the “causal force” that is sometimes thought of as an advantage of I-data?

-the expectancy effect

-behavioral confirmation

Funder’s Laws -

-Something beats nothing, two times out of three.

-There are no perfect indicators of personality; there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous.

-Great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and surprisingly often, the opposite is true as well.