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Chapter 15
Measuring Personality and Personal Abilities
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Psychology
12th Grade
12/09/2009

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psychological tests
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Objective measures of what people know, how they act, think, and feel, and what their goals are
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standardization
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Clear directions for taking, scoring, and interpreting a test
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norms
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patterns of test anwers from different types of people
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validity
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whether a test measures what it is supposed to measure
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reliability
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whether test results are consistent over time
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personality inventory
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a list of items about a person's beliefs, habits, hopes, needs, and desires
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MMPI-2 : Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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The latest version of this test, most widelyused pesonality inventory
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california psychological inventory
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personality inventory most often used in schools
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projective tests
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tests measuring inner feelings elicited by a vague stimulus, such as an ink blot or unclear picture.
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rorschsch test
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ink blot preojective test developed by Hermann Rorschach
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TAT - Thematic Apperception Test
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A projective test using unclear pictures about which people make up stories
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aptitude
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one's special skills
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aptitude tests
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Tests that measure one's special skills (in carpentry, medicine, and so forth)
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achievement tests
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test that measure the amount of specific material remembered from the classroom.
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Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
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test designed to measure ability to do college work
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vocational interest test
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a test that attempts to predict a good occupational area for an individual
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Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory
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The most widely used interest test; based on answers of people successful in certain areas.
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halo effect
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The situation where a person who has one positive characteristic is assumed to have other positive traits.
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reverse halo
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the situation where a person with one negative characteristic is assumed to have other negative traits
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standoutishness
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doing or wearing something that is so startling it detracts from one's real abilities
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situational assessment
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the process of looking at how the circumstances surrounding an event influence people responding to that event.
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