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    This document provides an overview of personality traits and tests. It defines personality as an individual's characteristic patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the underlying psychological mechanisms. It describes several major theories of personality, including trait theory, psychodynamic theory, and humanistic theory. It also outlines different methods used to measure personality, such as projective tests, behavioral measures, self-report questionnaires, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The document concludes by stating that personality psychologists should focus their efforts on the trait approach, psychoanalytic approach, biological factors, humanistic perspectives, behaviorist learning, cognitive approaches, and interactionist perspectives.

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    This document provides an overview of personality traits and tests. It defines personality as an individual's characteristic patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the underlying psychological mechanisms. It describes several major theories of personality, including trait theory, psychodynamic theory, and humanistic theory. It also outlines different methods used to measure personality, such as projective tests, behavioral measures, self-report questionnaires, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The document concludes by stating that personality psychologists should focus their efforts on the trait approach, psychoanalytic approach, biological factors, humanistic perspectives, behaviorist learning, cognitive approaches, and interactionist perspectives.

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    This document provides an overview of personality traits and tests. It defines personality as an individual's characteristic patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the underlying psychological mechanisms. It describes several major theories of personality, including trait theory, psychodynamic theory, and humanistic theory. It also outlines different methods used to measure personality, such as projective tests, behavioral measures, self-report questionnaires, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The document concludes by stating that personality psychologists should focus their efforts on the trait approach, psychoanalytic approach, biological factors, humanistic perspectives, behaviorist learning, cognitive approaches, and interactionist perspectives.

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    Personality

    Traits & Tests

    DEBARSHI GHOSH
    Introduction to Personality
    Personality = an individual’s characteristic patterns
    of thoughts, emotion, and behavior

     Plus the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not)


    behind those patterns
    What is Personality?
     How people differ at the individual level
     Personality
     An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling,
    and acting
    Personality Theories

    Trait Theory - understand individuals by breaking


    down behavior patterns into observable traits
    Psychodynamic Theory - emphasizes the
    unconscious determinants of behavior
    Humanistic Theory - emphasizes individual
    growth and improvement
    Integrative Approach - describes personality as a
    composite of an individual’s psychological
    processes
    How is Personality Measured?
    Projective Test - elicits an individual’s response to
    abstract stimuli
    Behavioral Measures - personality assessments that
    involve observing an individual’s behavior in a
    controlled situation
    Self-Report Questionnaire - assessment involving an
    individual’s responses to questions
    Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - instrument
    measuring Jung’s theory of individual differences.
    Rorschach Test
    Rorschach Inkblot Test - Psychological Testing (gracepointwellness.org)
    CBT Tool
    Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
    (MBTI)
     The Big Five Personality test, also known as the
    Five Factor Model, is a personality test based on
    the assumption that personality can be sufficiently
    described by five personality traits: Openness,
    Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness,
    and Neuroticism.
    Mission Impossible/Need to focus efforts

    Personality psychologists must focus their efforts:


    1. Trait approach = how people differ psychologically
    from one another. Focus on personality traits.
    2. Psychoanalytic approach = focus on unconscious
    mind and internal conflict
    3. Biological = address physiology, inheritance, and
    evolution and relate these to personality
    Basic Perspectives on Personality continued

    4. Humanistic/phenomenological approach = focus on


    conscious experience, focus on growth, spirituality, and
    self-fulfillment
    5. Behaviorist/learning – focus on science of learning,
    impact of rewards, punishment
    6. Cognitive approach – emphasizes human thought,
    draws from modern cognitive psychology
    7. Interactionist perspective – emphasizes that we are
    different in different situations; situation and person
    interact
    Thanks

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