Psychometric or Trait Approaches to Personality | Introduction to Psychology Lecture 16

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The Topics which are covered in this lecture are | Personality in Psychology

Topics of Today’s Lecture includes : –

1. Review of Personality and its related concepts.

2. What are different theories of Personality?

3. What are psychometric approaches or theories of personality?

4. What are psychometric test?

5. Types and areas of Trait or psychometric tests

6. Trait theories of personality

7. psychometric approaches to personality

Review of personality

•What is personality?

•What different definitions of personality?

•What are types of personality

•What are dimensions of personality?

•What are big Five (OCEAN) dimensions?

•What are different theories an approaches of personality?

Trait approaches and theories

•These assume behavior is determined by relatively stable traits which are the fundamental units of one’s personality.

•Traits(خصلتیں) affect one to act in a certain way, regardless of the situation. This means that traits should remain consistent across situations and over time, but may vary between individuals. It is presumed that individuals differ in their traits due to genetic differences.

•These theories are sometimes referred to a psychometric theories, because of their emphasis on measuring personality by using psychometric tests.

What is a Psychometric Test?

•A psychometric(ذہن پیمائی) test is any activity or assessment that is conducted in order to evaluate a candidate performance and includes, but is not limited to, skills, knowledge, abilities, personality traits, attitudes and job/academic potential.

•There are many psychometric test styles and formats with 3 main areas we will elaborate on.

They are

–aptitude tests

–behavioral tests

–assessment centers.

Areas of Psychometric Test

•Aptitude Tests: These tests have the goal of assessing various intellectual abilities from mathematical ability and literacy skills.

•Behavioral Tests: These tests are intended to highlight specific personality traits that could indicate suitability for specific roles. These can come in the form of personality questionnaires, leadership tests, motivation tests and situational judgement tests.

•Assessment Centers: Assessment centers are based on human interaction assessments. Various exercises utilize job-specific skills and simulations and are usually carried out by assessors/psychologists.

Types of Psychometric Tests

•These test can be used to for assessment of personality. It can also be used in measurement of personality.

–Numerical Tests

–Verbal Tests (like Interview)

–Logical Tests

–Technical Tests

–Error-Checking Tests

–Concentration Tests

Psychometric approaches Trait theories

•Carl Jung and the Myers-Briggs

–Temperaments

–Introversion and extroversion

–Sensing, thinking, feeling, judging, perceiving and intuiting

•Hans Eysenck

–extraversion-introversion

–Emotional stability and neuroticism

–Psychoticism

– problem with reality

•The Big Five