PSYC 107 1nd Edition Lecture 28 Outline of Last Lecture I Freud vs Followers II Assessing Personality Projective Tests III Modern Personality and Mind IV Humanism V Trait Theory VI Myers Briggs Outline of Current Lecture I MMPI II Big Five III Employment uses IV Social Cognitive Perspective V Bandura s Reciprocal Determinism VI Learned Helplessness Current Lecture I MMPI Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests Developed by empirically testing a pool of items and selecting those that discriminated between the groups Validity Scales Scale Name Items Description Example Item cannot say Varies Unanswered items L Lie 15 Overly good selfreport I smile at everyone I meet F Frequency 64 Scored in same There is an These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute or infrequency K correction 30 direction by 10 of the normal faking good or bad intentional plot against me Reflects defensiveness in admitting problems I feel bad when others criticize me L scale is the deliberate attempt to put oneself in the most positive light F scale is the faking of good or bad intentional distortion Uses inconsistency in responses Can reflect carelessness Can reflect severe psychological disorder II III Big Five Traits are stable in adulthood Traits change over time Traits are 50 heritable These traits are common across cultures Shown to predict real word behaviors There are limits to the cross cultural unversality Employment uses MMPI Can be used for high security jobs Karrker v Rent A Center Big Five Little to no adverse impact Predicts a variety of jobs Adverse impacts Unfair discrimination can occur with use of personality tests Occurs when the use of the test results in an adverse effect for protected group compared to majority group members IV Social Cognitive Perspective Theorizes personality is the result of interaction V Different people choose different environments Our personalities shape how we react to events Our personalities shape situations Bandura s Reciprocal Determinism VI Belief Expectations Dispositions Behavior Environmental Factors all relate to each other Learned Helplessness Pessimistic individuals attribute negative outcomes to internal factors Attribute positive outcomes to external factors
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