PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY
2. Inventories
Techniques :
The basic idea of these tests is that the way people
respond to vague (on ambiguous) situation.
(CAT):
CAT is used on children who
have behaviour and adjustment
problems.
Sentence
completion test:
In this there are sentences,
which are incomplete, and the
individuals have to complete the
sentence.
For example,
• My mother……….
• When I am at a party……….
• My friends……….
• MMPI
• EPI
• BAI
• CPI and so on
Questionnaire consists of questions or simple
statements marked ‘yes’ or ‘no’, ‘true’ or ‘false’.
These questionnaires were first during World War I
to help emotionally unstable army-men.
0–7: Minimal
8-15: Mild
16-25: Moderate
26-63: Severe
ttel’s personality inventory (CPI —16 PF
It is called 16- personality factors
questionnaire (16 PF).
Cattel and his associates used 4500
adjectives applicable to human behaviour.
Later they used 170 adjectives such as cool-
warm, trusty-suspicious, affected-emotionally
stable, shy-bold, practical-imagination, etc.
California psychological
inventory (CPI):
This scale measures some evidence of genetic
contribution to a large number of traits. It
shows high correlation on monozygote twins
than dizygote twins. For example
achievement, intellectual efficiency, etc.
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