Question

Name the three categories of personality assessment.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Psychologists seek to measure personality through a number of methods, the most common of which are objective tests and projective measures.
• Objective tests, such as self-report measures, rely on an individual’s personal responses and are relatively free of rater bias.
• Some of the more widely used personality self-report measures are the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Neo Pi-R, MMPI/MMPI-2, 16 PF, and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.
• Projective measures are founded in psychoanalytic theories of personality and involve using ambiguous stimuli to reveal inner aspects of an individual’s personality.