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TESTING THE TESTS What is the one word that At the end of this assignment, you will be able to explain test separates the mood you might be validity and confounding variables with personality test. You will feeling now from your be able to distinguish between Thematic Apperception Test, the personality? ______.
Myers-Briggs test, and the Big-5 test.
Baseline Test: Take a few minutes to analyze your own personality. For each row, check the cell that has the word best describes you. 1. Optimist Pessimist Realist 2. Traditional Innovative Direct 3. Analytical, cautious Impulsive, care little for detail 4. Secure, stick to your Insecure, uncertain ideals 5. Good listener Not a good listener 6. Satisfied with love life Not satisfied with love life
Pig personality test 1. Take out a blank piece of 8 ½ x 11-inch paper. 2. Now draw a pig. Seriously draw a pig as best as you can. Draw a pig!! Your drawing will serve to interpret your personality preferences 3. Once you’ve finished your drawing, go to swopepsych.com, student section, chapter 10, and click on pig personality test. Use the guide to interpret your drawing. Check the boxes of the words that apply to you. 1. Optimist Pessimist Realist 2. Traditional Innovative Direct 3. Analytical, cautious Impulsive, care little for detail 4. Secure, stick to your Insecure, uncertain ideals 5. Good listener Not a good listener 6. Satisfied with love life Not satisfied with love life
What type of test is the Pig Test? Check as many as apply?
Projective Standardized Objective Subjective
Aptitude Achievement
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Is the Pig test valid? ______. How can you answer that question if you do not know what the concept of valid is? Is the S.A.T. test valid? How about AP exams? Let’s look at some more conventional personality tests.
Above or below average Write the word above or below in the box under the “your score” column. For instance, do you think you are above or below average in your need to achieve? Your score Need for Achievement Need for Affiliation (attention on relationships) Need for power (attention on control and status) Self-references (honesty, anxiety, stress) Social words (outgoing and more socially connected) Positive emotions (optimistic) Negative emotions (pessimistic) Big words (weakly related to higher grades) Thematic Apperception Test Now that you are on swopepsych.com, student section, chapter 10, click on “thematic apperception test.” Follow the directions and write for a solid 10 minutes. Yes, do it. You drew a pig didn’t’ you? Don’t think about it too much just write. Then hit submit. Write your results in the chart below. Your Male Female score average average Need for Achievement 5.8 5.6 Need for Affiliation (attention on relationships) 1.1 1.3 Need for power (attention on control and status) 1.7 1.8 Self-references (honesty, anxiety, stress) .5 .8 Social words (outgoing and more socially 11.4 12. connected) Positive emotions (optimistic) 1.8 2.1 Negative emotions (pessimistic) 1.5 1.6 Big words (weakly related to higher grades) 18.7 17.7
1. Do you agree with your results ______? 2. What does the TAT test claim to measure? 3. Are you a good judge of the validity of your results? Explain self-report bias
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4. Use one other vocabulary word from any chapter to discuss whether you agree or disagree with your results from the Thematic Apperception Test.
What type of test is the Thematic Apperception Test? Check as many as apply?
Projective Standardized Objective Subjective
Aptitude Achievement
Letter Combination For each of the four rows, choose which box applies best to you? Click on the circle near the first letter of the bold word. You should only click four circles. 1. Extraverted general preference for being Introverted general preference for being interacting with other people vs. being alone alone vs. interacting with other people 2. Sensing generally gets information directly Intuition generally gets information from raw, from the external world their thoughts, interpretations, and feelings 3. Thinking generally makes decisions based Feeling generally makes decisions on on logic without involving yourself whether they feel right 4. Judging generally organize life events and Perceiving generally improvise and look sticks to plans at alternative solutions
Now, write those Since you already have swopepsych.com, student Write the 4 letter 4 letters here______. section, chapter 10 open, click on “Myers-Briggs.” result here______. Please answer all 64 questions. Which Neo- Freudian is the Myers-Briggs test based on?
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What type of test is the Myer-Briggs Test? Check as many as apply?
Projective Standardized Objective Subjective
Aptitude Achievement
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There’s a sucker born every minute Define operational definition Define test validity Define reliability
Read the “Barnum Effect.” In a short FRQ, explain how P.T. Barnum might use the three words above to describe personality tests.
It’s a big Ocean, you’d better bring your canoe. Just for fun: have a family member or 1. Click on “Valid personality test?” friend do this test about you. Do their 2. Take the test. results match yours? Confounding variable, research bias, and Define interrater reliability. lurking variable all mean the same thing.
3. Write an example of one of the three words above that might affect your results?
What type of test is the Thematic Apperception Test? Check as many as apply?
Projective Standardized Objective Subjective
Aptitude Achievement
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Assessment: Submit to Turnitin.com under Personality FRQ revision. Sally Schmidlap is sitting in her AP Psychology class. Her teacher makes her take a bunch of personality tests in an attempt to teach her about personality tests. Her teacher gives her an FRQ and asks her to define words and apply them to a fictitious situation. How would Sally apply the following words to personality tests? Barnum Effect Validity Reliability Openness Projective test Archetype Factor analysis