3. Approaches
In Personality
Assessment
What
Is
Personality Examples of
Personality
Tests
4. What is PERSONALITY?
Typical or characteristic ways
of how individuals behave.
An early model of personality was
posited by
Greek philosopher Hippocrates.
7. Adjective
Checklist
Adjective Checklist
• Consists of 300 adjectives and
EPPS adjectival phrases commonly used to
describe a person’s attributes.
• It may be administered to an
individual to elicit a self-evaluation or
a characterization of someone else.
MMPI-2
MBTI
8. Adjective
Checklist Adjective Checklist
Directions: These pages contain a list of 300
adjectives. Please read through them quickly
and check each one you would consider to be
self-descriptive. Do not worry about
EPPS
duplications, contradictions, and so forth. Work
quickly and do not spent too much time on any
one adjective. Try to be frank, and check the
adjectives which describe you as you really are,
not as you would like to be. Be sure to continue
MMPI-2 through adjective number 300.
MBTI
10. Adjective
Checklist
Edwards Personal
EPPS
Preference Schedule
• A forced choice, objective, non-
projective personality inventory, derived
from the theory of H.A. Murray, which
MMPI-2 measures the rating of individuals in 15
normal needs or motives.
MBTI
12. Adjective
Checklist
Minnesota Multiphasic
EPPS
Personality Inventory-2
• Most frequently used personality test.
• Developed by Starke Hathaway and J.C.
McKinley at the University of Minnesota in
MMPI-2 the late 1930’s.
• Contains 567 items and takes 60-90
minutes to complete
MBTI
13. Adjective
Checklist
Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory-2
EPPS 1. I have a good appetite.
2. I wake up fresh and rested in the
morning.
3. My daily life is full of things that keeps
me interested
4. No one seems to understand me.
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5. I would like to be a singer.
6. I find it hard to keep my mind on a task
or job.
7. I do not always tell the truth.
8. I am liked by most people who know me.
MBTI
14. Adjective
Checklist
EPPS
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Designed to measure psychological preferences in
how people perceive the world and make
decisions.
• It uses the theories proposed by Carl Jung.
MMPI-2 • Developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her
daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers.
• Dichotomies: Extraversion (E)- Introversion (I)
Sensing (S)- Intuition (N)
Thinking (T)- Feeling (F)
MBTI Judgment (J)- Perception (P)
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15. VALIDITY and RELIABILITY
ADVANTAGE:
Economical to administer
DISADVANTAGE:
Fluctuation of Scores
DISADVANTAGE:
They are fakable.
17. What is a PROJECTIVE TEST?
PROJECTIVE TESTS
A personality test designed to let a
person respond to an ambiguous
stimuli.
The responses are content
analyzed for meaning.
Allow subjects to express
thoughts that originate in a
deeper level.
18. Rorschach Inkblot Test
Rorschach
Inkblot It was named after its creator,
Hermann Rorschach.
Test
• The subject is shown a series of 10
irregular but symmetrical inkblots.
Thematic
Apperception
Test
• The subject’s responses are analyzed
in various ways.
Draw-A-
Person
Test
29. Thematic Apperception Test
Rorschach
Also known as Picture Interpretation
Inkblot Technique was developed by Henry Murray
Test and Christiana Morgana.
It allows an individual to view ambiguous
Thematic scenes of people, and is asked to
Apperception describe various aspects of the scene:
• What has led up to the event shown
Test • What is happening at the moment
• What the characters are feeling and
thinking
• What the outcome of the story was
Draw-A-
Person
Test
30.
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34. Draw-A-Person Test
Rorschach
Inkblot Also known as Goodenough Draw-
A-Man Test, was developed by
Test Florence Goodenough.
Thematic • The examinee is provided with paper
Apperception and pencil and asked to draw a person.
Test
• Every aspect of the drawing is
purported to have psychological
Draw-A-
Person significance.
Test
35. Validity and Reliability
Rorschach Thematic Draw-A-
Inkblot Apperception Person
Test Test Test
Exner Scoring System Defense Mechanisms Enrollment
“The interpretation of Manual and Social
Rorschach record is a Cognition and Relations The reliability of
complex process. Proficiency scores tend to be
as a Rorschach Validity is not relatively low, and
administrator can be gained established for both the validities,
within a few months. the Rorschach and although quite
However, even those who the TAT, much less varied, are generally
are able and qualified
for newer projective near zero.
usually remain in a learning
stage for a no. of years” techniques.
37. What is SOCIOMETRY
• It is the study of interrelationships among
members of a group, that is, its social
structure: how each other is perceived by the
group.
38. The SOCIOGRAM
• Also known as, friendship chart, is a diagram that
allows the teacher to analyze the social make-up
of the class.
Students respond to a teacher-provided direction
such as:
• List two classmates with whom you would most
like to sit
• Write the name of the person with whom you
would enjoy working on a project
• If you were going on a vacation, which of your
classmates would be nice to have along?
39. The GUESS WHO Technique
• Each student is asked to list the student or
students (if any) who match a series of brief
descriptions that may include positive as well
as negative descriptions.
40. The GUESS WHO Technique
Below are some word pictures of members of your class. Read each
statement and write down the names of the persons whom you think the
descriptions fit.
REMEMBER: One description may fit several persons. You may write as many
names as you think belong under each.
The same person may be nominated for more than one description.
Write myself if you think the description fits you.
If you cannot think of anyone to match a particular description, go on to next
one.
You will have as much time as you need to finish. Do not hurry.
A series of behavior description will follow such as,
• Someone who always seems rather sad, worried, or unhappy.
• Someone who is very friendly, who is nice to everybody.sociometric.xlsx
• Someone who has the most original or unusual ideas.
