2. INTERVIEW
ā¢ The most common method of
judging personality.The aim of
an interview is to collect
information about an
individual characteristics,
behaviour, interests, assests
and weaknesses.
4. OBSERVATION
ā¢ yields useful information
about personality
characteristics. An individual
should be observed in various
situations for several days
before some conclusion about
his personality traits are
arrived at.
5. RATING
SCALE
ā¢ one of the oldest and most
versatile of assessment
techniques
ā¢ Rating scales present users
with an item and ask them to
select from a number of
choices.
ā¢ The rating scale is similar in
some aspects to a multiple
choice test
6. ā¢ Integration of the information
that is obtained from various
sources about the individual is
done. It requires many
interviews with the individual.
8. PAPER PENCIL
TEST
ā¢ Used to assess the relatively
stable and enduring
characteristics of a person in
the form of a questionnaire or
inventory. There are no right
or wrong answer. These are
usually paper pencil tests and
can be given cheaply and
quickly to a large number of
people.
9. PAPER PENCIL TEST (CONT.)
EXAMPLE:ļI enjoy experimenting with new
ways of doing things
1)Strongly agree
2)Agree
3)Neither agree nor disagree
4)Disagree
5)Strongly disagree
10. ā¢ The best known objective
personality test
ā¢ created primarily to measure
psychopathology
ā¢ contains several validity scales
ā¢ MMPI-2 is now the more
commonly used edition
11. MMPI [CONTD..]
āMMPI was designed to identify people
with tendencies toward certain psychological
disorders. Sometimes it is used as an aid in
determining what diagnosis will be given to
people psychological problems.
13. ā¢ Developed over several
decades of research by
Raymond B. Cattell and his
colleagues.
ā¢ (16PF), released in 1993, is
the fifth edition of the original
test
14. 16PF [CONTā¦..]
āFifth Edition contains 185 multiplechoice items which are written at a
fifth-grade reading level.
āAdministration of the test :35ā50
minutes for the paper-and-pencil
version and about 30 minutes by
computer.
15. McGIL PAIN
QUESTIONAIRE(MPQ)
ā¢ Developed at by Dr. Melzack
at McGill University in
Montreal Canada and has
been translated into several
languages.
ā¢ Used to evaluate a person
experiencing significant
pain.
ā¢ Used to monitor the pain
over time and to determine
the effectiveness of any
intervention
17. EYSENCK PERSONALITY ā¢ A questionnaire to assess the
personality traits of a person
QUESTIONAIRE
ā¢ devised by the psychologists
Hans JĆ¼rgen Eysenck and his
wife Sybil B. G. Eysenck
20. RORSCHACH TEST
Hermann Rorschach,a swiss psychiatrist
developed the first major use of projective
techniques around 1910.Test consists of ten
ambiguous,symmetrical inkblots.Inkblot card
appears as if a blot of ink was poured onto a
piece of paper and folded over.These 61/2 x
91/2 ink blot cards are the standard stimuli
22. ā¢ Henry murray developed the
TAT in 1943 at Harvard
psychologic clinic
ā¢ consists of a series of ten
black and white pictures that
depict the individuals of both
sexes and of different age
groups involved in a variety of
different activities.
23.
24. SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST
A sentence completion test presented with incomplete
sentences and is asked to complete each sentence with
the first response that comes to mind.
e.g:
My father seldom__________________
Most people donāt know that iām afraid
of_________________
When i was a child,i_________________
When encountering frustration, i usually
_________________
27. HOLTZMAN INKBLOT TECHNIQUE(HIT)
>developed in an attempt to minimize certain
statistical difficulties that arise in the analysis of
Rorschach results.
>subject responds to each of a series of 45
ambiguous inkblots
>These responses are scored to describe and to
classify the personality of the subject
28. Contdā¦ā¦
ļStrength:-Only one response per card,making
research less troublesome.
ļWeakness:-Not widely accepted and rarely
used,not directly comparable to Rorschach
interpretive strategies.
29. FIGURE
DRAWING
ā¢ an individual is instructed to
draw a person, an object, or a
situation so that cognitive,
interpersonal, or psychological
functioning can be assessed.
ā¢ Strength:-Quick
administration.
ā¢ Weakness:-Interpretive
strategies have typically been
supported by research.
30. MAKE A PICTURE STORY
ļsimilar to TAT however,stimulation may be
manipulated by patient.
ļassist the practitioner in arriving at differential
diagnoses and understanding the individual
psychodynamics in any particular patient