Psychological
  Measurement
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  @uwa.edu.au
  Whatis                            Personality and its Assessment
  Personality?
  Personality
  Assessment
  Traits
  Types                       PSYC3302: Psychological Measurement and Its
  States
  Usesof                                                   Applications
  Personality
  Assessment
  Personality                                               MarkHurlstone
  Assessment                                       Univeristy of Western Australia
  Methods
  Projective Methods
  Objective Methods                                           Week10
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                  Learning Objectives
  Psychological
  Measurement
  mark.hurlstone
  @uwa.edu.au
  Whatis                • Whatis personality?
  Personality?          • Whatis personality assessment?
  Personality
  Assessment            • Uses and value of personality assessments
  Traits
  Types                 • Measurement methods:
  States
  Usesof                       1 Projective tests
  Personality
  Assessment                   2 Objective tests
  Personality                          •
  Assessment                              Type-Based
  Methods
  Projective Methods                   • Trait-Based
  Objective Methods
   Type-Based
   Trait-Based
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                  Lay Conceptions of Personality
  Psychological
  Measurement
  mark.hurlstone
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  Whatis                    elicit positive or negative reactions from others:
  Personality?                 • Someonewhoelicits positive reactions has a "good
  Personality
  Assessment                       personality"
  Traits
  Types                        • Someonewhoelicits negative reactions has a "negative
  States                           personality"
  Usesof
  Personality           • Wealsohearpeopledescribed with adjectives like
  Assessment
  Personality               aggressive, warm, or cold
  Assessment
  Methods               • For psychologists the terms tend to be better specified and
  Projective Methods
  Objective Methods         moredescriptive
   Type-Based
   Trait-Based
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                  Definitions in the Psychology Literature
  Psychological
  Measurement               Themostadequateconceptualisation of a person’s
  mark.hurlstone            behaviour in all its detail (McClelland, 1951, p.69)
  @uwa.edu.au
  Whatis                    The individual as a whole ... it means all that any-
  Personality?              one is and is trying to become (Menninger 1953,
  Personality
  Assessment                p.23)
  Traits
  Types
  States                    Personality is defined by the particular empirical
  Usesof                    concepts which are a part of the theory of person-
  Personality
  Assessment                ality employed (Hall and Lindzey, 1970, p.9)
  Personality
  Assessment
  Methods                   An individual’s unique constellation of psy-
  Projective Methods
  Objective Methods         chological traits—values, interests, attitudes,
   Type-Based
   Trait-Based              worldview,cognitivestyle—thatisrelativelysta-
  Next Week                 ble and enduring over time
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