personality assessment
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Personality Assessment. DAPT. Barnum Effect. People’s willingness to interpret vague, general statements as personally meaningful interpretations of their personality. Why do we test?. Tell us “how much” of a trait you have. Why do we test? 1) Clinical 2) Employment 3) Curiosity. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Personality Assessment
• DAPT
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Barnum Effect
• People’s willingness to interpret vague, general statements as personally meaningful interpretations of their personality
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Why do we test?
• Tell us “how much” of a trait you have.
• Why do we test?
• 1) Clinical
• 2) Employment
• 3) Curiosity
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How do we test?
• 1) Create a test
• 2) Validate the test
• 3) Use the test
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Methods for creating a test
• Rational Method
• Projective Tests
• Factor Analytic Method
• Empirical Method
• Combination of Methods
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Rational Method
• Questionnaire
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• 1) Enjoy being reckless. • 2) Take risks. • 3) Avoid dangerous situations.• 4) Seek danger. • 5) Know how to get around the rules.• 6) Would never make a high risk investment.• 7) Am willing to try anything once. • 8) Seek adventure.• 9) Would never go hang-gliding or bungee-jumping.
Disagree strongly
Disagree
a little
Neither agree nor
disagree
Agree a little
Agree
Strongly
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• 1) Enjoy being reckless. • 2) Take risks. • 3) Avoid dangerous situations.• 4) Seek danger. • 5) Know how to get around the rules.• 6) Would never make a high risk investment.• 7) Am willing to try anything once. • 8) Seek adventure.• 9) Would never go hang-gliding or bungee-jumping.
Disagree strongly
Disagree
a little
Neither agree nor
disagree
Agree a little
Agree
Strongly
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Rational Method
• Straight forward and obvious items
• Most common method of test construction
• For this to work:• 1) Items must mean the same thing to subjects as it
does to the test creator• 2) Person must be able to self-assess• 3) Person must be willing to self-assess• 4) Items must be valid indicators of characteristic
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Projective Tests
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Inkblots as projective stimuli
• The Rorschach:– Hermann Rorschach (1884 - 1922).– 10 bilaterally symmetrical inkblots on separate
cards:• 5 black and white.• 2 black, white, and red.• 3 multicolor.
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Inkblots: Initial administration
• “What might this be?”
• Record response verbatim:– Include time until first response.– Position of card, spontaneous statements,
nonverbal gestures or body movements.
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InkblotsInterpretation of scores
• Generate hypotheses based on patterns of response, recurrent themes and interrelationships among scoring categories
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Assumptions of Projective Tests
• Assumptions:– The more unstructured
the stimuli, the more examinees reveal about their personality.
– Every response provides meaning for personality analysis.
– There is an “unconscious.”
– Subjects are unaware of what they disclose.
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
• Morgan and Murray (1935).
• Elicit fantasy material from patients in psychoanalysis.
• 31 cards:– 30 black & white with scenes:
• Describe story.
– 1 blank:• Imagine picture on card and tell related story.
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TAT: Conclusions
• Based on: – Stories told by examinee.– Clinician’s notes:
• Examinee’s response to the cards.
• Analysis of story requires special training.
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TAT Interpretation (cont.)
• Basic assumption:– Examinee is identifying with protagonist in
the story. – Examinee’s concerns, hopes, fears, and
desires are reflected in the protagonist’s needs, demands, and conflicts.
– That is, the examinee’s personality is projected onto the protagonist.
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Projective Tests for Children
• “The Adventures of Blacky the Dog”
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Blacky Test
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Other Projective Tests
• Draw a person test
• Draw a house test
• Word association
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Factor Analytic Method
• 1) Name different makes of cars
• 2) In groups:– Imagine you work in a car lot and you must
organize these cars in some manner into 4 different groups
• 3) Organize the cars and name the groupings
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Factor Analytic Method
• Done in 5 steps
• 1) Create many items
• 2) Give these items to many people
• 3) Correlate items together
• 4) Look for “groupings” of items
• 5) Name the “groupings” (i.e. factors)
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Factor Analytic Method
• Limitations:
• Only as good as the items
• Sometimes get “odd” factors
• Still must name the factor (not done by the computer)
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Factor Analytic Method
1) Automatically take charge.
2) Joke around a lot.
3) Turn plans into actions.
4) Stick up for myself.
5) Act wild and crazy.
6) Am always busy.
7) Follow a schedule.
8) Laugh my way through life.
9) Let myself go.
10) Express childlike joy.
11) Do a lot in my spare time.
12) Disclose my intimate thoughts.
13) Know what I want.
14) Like harmony in my life.
16) Try to lead others.
17) Am open about myself to others.
18) Can easily push myself forward.
19) Am deeply moved by others' misfortunes.
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Factor Analytic MethodFactor 1
Automatically take charge.
Can easily push myself forward.
Try to lead others.
Turn plans into actions.
Stick up for myself.
Am always busy.
Do a lot in my spare time.
Know what I want.
Factor 2
Act wild and crazy.
Let myself go.
Disclose my intimate thoughts.
Laugh my way through life.
Express childlike joy.
Joke around a lot.
Am open about myself to others.
Factor 3
Follow a schedule.
Like harmony in my life
Am deeply moved by others' misfortunes.
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Empirical Method
• I prefer a shower to a bath
• I sometimes tease animals
• I will sometimes wear a dress
• I like watching football
• I am happy
• I typically open doors for others
• As a child I liked playing with dolls
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Empirical Method
• Done in 3 Steps:
• 1) Create items– Items can be anything!
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Empirical Method
• 2) Administer the items to two groups
– Criterion Group• Composed of people that possess the trait
– Control Group• Composed of people that do not possess the trait
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Empirical Method
• 3) Select items that the two groups answered differently
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Empirical Method
• Basic Logic:
• Different kinds of people have distinctive ways of answering certain questions.
• If you answer questions the same way that members of a diagnostic group did, you might belong to that group too!
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Empirical Method• Thus, the content of empirical items does not matter
• “I sometimes tease animals”– Not depressed
• “I have a great fear of snakes”– Prejudiced
• “I do not enjoy detective stories”– Hospitalized hysterics
• “I like tall women”– Impulsive males
• “I gossip a little at times”– High IQ
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Empirical Method
• Difficult to “fake”
• Only as good as the groups they were created with– Do other things make the groups different?
• May not generalize to other people in other areas
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Combination of Methods
• Commonly used
• Combine together• 1) Rational method (come up with items that make
sense)
• 2) Factor Analytic (select items that group)
• 3) Empirical Method (determine if items can predict types of people)
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Methods for creating a test
• Rational Method
• Projective Tests
• Factor Analytic Method
• Empirical Method
• Combination of Methods
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Basic Steps
• 1) Create a test
• 2) Validate the test
• 3) Use the test
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Statistics
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Correlation
Smile Talk
Jerry 10 5
Elan 6 1
George 8 3
Newman 9 4
Kramer 7 2
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Positive Correlation
Smile Talk
Jerry 10 5
Elan 6 1
George 8 3
Newman 9 4
Kramer 7 2
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Positive Correlation
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Positive Correlation
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Positive Correlation
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Frown Talk
Jerry 10 2
Elan 6 6
George 8 4
Newman 9 3
Kramer 7 5
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Frown Talk
Jerry 10 2
Elan 6 6
George 8 4
Newman 9 3
Kramer 7 5
Negative Correlation
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Negative Correlation
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r = - 1.00
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Negative Correlation
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Gas in car Talk
Jerry 10 8
Elan 6 9
George 8 3
Newman 9 4
Kramer 7 3
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Gas in car Talk
Jerry 10 8
Elan 6 9
George 8 3
Newman 9 4
Kramer 7 3
Zero Correlation
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Zero Correlation
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Correlation Coefficient
• The sign of a correlation (+ or -) only tells you the direction of the relationship
• The value of the correlation only tells you about the size of the relationship (i.e., how close the scores are to the regression line)
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EXCEL
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• Which is a bigger effect?
r = .40 or r = -.40
How are they different?
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Practice
• Do you think the following variables are positively, negatively or uncorrelated to each other?
• Alcohol consumption & Driving skills• Miles of running a day & speed in a foot race• Height & GPA• Forearm length & foot length
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STOP
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Interpreting a Correlation
• What does it actually mean in “people words”?
• Binomial Effect Size Display (BESD)
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BESD
• 200 subjects (all sick)
• Drug given to 100 of them
• At the end:
• 100 live and 100 die
• If the effect of the drug was .00 – what does that mean?
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 50 50 100
No Drug 50 50 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .00
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BESD
• 200 subjects (all sick)
• Drug given to 100 of them
• At the end:
• 100 live and 100 die
• What if the drugs effect was .40 – what does that look like?
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 70 30 100
No Drug 30 70 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .40
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 70 30 100
No Drug 30 70 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .40Thus, if you take the drug you have a 70% chance of living compared to only 30% if you do not take the drug!
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BESD
• How to compute:
• 200 subjects (all sick)
• Drug given to 100 of them
• At the end:
• 100 live and 100 die
• Drugs effect was .30
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 100
No Drug 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 100
No Drug 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
1) Compute cell values if r = .00
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 50 50 100
No Drug 50 50 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
1) Compute cell values if r = .00
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 50 50 100
No Drug 50 50 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
1) Drop the decimal (30)
2) Divide by 2 (30 / 2 = 15)
3) Add to number in upper left cell (50 + 15 = 65)
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 65 50 100
No Drug 50 50 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
1) Plug in value
2) Compute other cell values
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 65 35 100
No Drug 50 50 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
1) Plug in value
2) Compute other cell values
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BESD
Alive Dead Total
Drug 65 35 100
No Drug 35 65 100
Total 100 100 200
When r = .30
1) Plug in value
2) Compute other cell values
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BESD Practice
• Create BESDs for the following
• r = .10
• r = .55
• r = .80