Assess personality through observation-interviews and tests

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You will be answering 10 short answer questions in your own words. Yes, use your learning resources in the class to review and understand the material, but the goal here is for you to demonstrate your deep understanding of Week 1-4s topics by explaining them in your way. This isn't an essay assignment - I'm not assessing your writing ability here. What does matter is that I can tell that you understand the answers to these questions based on you having read the material, discussed it in class, reviewed it for this midterm, and can now explain these concepts from your own knowledge bank (vs. "finding" the answers in the reading). This exam is open book - you can use the reading and our ol' friend Google to help you. But use examples from your own life, use humor if you want, use straight-forward terminology to write your responses. Each question is worth 10 points. I am not setting a length requirement. Your answers can be however long they need to be to answer the question posed.

1. In your own words, define the term "personality."

2. Discuss how personality researchers assess personality through observation, interviews, and tests. Give an example of each method.

3. Describe and give examples of how personality is influenced by culture, development, motivations, and emotions.

4. Define three types of personality research (case study, surveys, and natural observations) and give your own examples of each.

5. Describe a study you might do looking at people's online behavior. Go into some detail about your methods; include your hypothesis, but don't stop there. How would you set it all up?

6. Compare/contrast self-report measures with informant ratings. Why would you use one and not the other? Describe the pros and cons of each. Which method do you think is the most valid and reliable? Why?

7. Summarize the "nature" argument for personality and the support for it. Then, summarize the "nurture" argument and it's supporting evidence. Which do you think has the strongest support? What side do you come down on? If you think it's a "little of both" discuss this conclusion. Describe how nature or nurture (or both) have influenced your own development.

8. Define constitutional theory and provide an example of a case that can be explained using this theory.

9. Choose someone you find interesting from pop culture. It may be a character in a movie or book or someone who's work you are a fan of. Anyone, really. In a two-sentence nutshell per theorist, how would each of these theorists explain/interpret that person's personality?

Sigmund Freud

Anna Freud

Erik Erikson

Carl Jung

Alfred Adler

Karen Horney

10. Compare/contrast what you knew/believed previously about the Rorschach Ink Blot test with what you learned a) from your in-class reading and b) from doing some outside web research on your own. If you were assessing someone's personality and had to choose one of the three, would you choose the Rorschach, the TAT, or the Myers-Briggs? And why?

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