DELA CRUZ, MARIA

STEPHANY R.
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PERSONALITY

TEST
CARE OF CLIENTS WITH MALADAPTIVE PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR

(ACUTE & CHRONIC)

 TYPES OF

PERSONALITY TEST
THEMATIC APPERCEPTION

THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOL
TEST (TAT)
RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST
PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE
PICTURE-WORLD TEST
APPROACH CONTROL TEST
OVERDETERMINATION TEST
PERSONALITY PROCESSES
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
UNOBTRUSIVE MEASURE
 Thematic

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Apperception Test

USED FOR:

(TAT)
TAT is often applied on individuals to assess them one by one in order to deem their worthiness

for a certain job. The sectors that require their job prospects to be evaluated with TAT usually

demand dealing with people and ability to cope with psychological stress on a day-to-day

basis. For example: law enforcement, medical field, military, diplomatic service, and so on.

·TAT is also applied on people with mental issues, in order to diagnose them for their

psychological problems. TAT helps identify the personality of such individuals, thus helping them

to receive appropriate treatment.

PROCEDURE:
The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique because it uses a standard series of

provocative yet ambiguous pictures about which the subject is asked to tell a story. The subject is

asked to tell as dramatic a story as they can for each picture presented, including:

what has led up to the event shown

what is happening at the moment?

what the characters are feeling and thinking

what the outcome of the story was

If these elements are omitted, particularly for children or individuals of low cognitive abilities, the

evaluator may ask the subject about them directly.

There are 31 picture cards in the standard form of the TAT. Some of the cards show male figures, some

The Thematic Apperception Test, or TAT, is a projective psychological test.

female, some both male and female figures, some of ambiguous gender, some adults, some children,

and some show no human figures at all. One card is completely blank. Although the cards were
Historically, it has been among the most widely researched, taught, and used of

originally designed to be matched to the subject in terms of age and gender, any card may be used

such tests. Its adherents assert that the TAT taps a subject's unconscious to

with any subject. Most practitioners choose a set of approximately ten cards, either using cards that

reveal repressed aspects of personality, motives and needs for achievement,

they feel are generally useful, or that they believe will encourage the subject's expression of emotional

conflicts relevant to their specific history and situation. power and intimacy, and problem-solving abilities.
Projective Technique USED FOR:
The projective tests are to evoke emotional responses

from the participant in order to study their attitudes,

traits, and behavior. These tests are expected to reveal

A projective test is a type of personality test in which you offer responses

an individual’s unconscious desires and apprehensions.

to ambiguous scenes, words, or images. The goal of such tests is to

uncover the hidden conflicts or emotions that you project onto the test

with the hope that these issues can then be addressed through PROCEDURE:
psychotherapy or other appropriate treatments.
Projective testing involves exposing an examinee to a

series of ambiguous stimuli (e.g. an image) and asking

them to provide their unique individual responses upon

perceiving the stimuli. This is done in order to prevent

biases on the part of the examinee. The ambiguity of the

stimuli does not give the person any hints as to what an

acceptable answer to the question is, which is the case

with other structured forms of psychological testing. For

example, in interviews or self-reports, individuals tend to

provide answers that may be more socially acceptable

and may even alter their responses based on how they

react to their answers. On the other hand, ambiguous

stimuli cause people to reveal their true feelings, which

are considered a more reliable measure of their

unconscious thoughts and behavior.

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A test for simulation and assessment of air traffic control, and the human

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factors involved. It assesses the relative influence of stress factors, such as

time pressures, personality factors, and organization.

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 DEFINITION:
A personality test is a tool used to assess human personality. Personality

testing and assessment refer to techniques designed to measure the

characteristic patterns of traits that people exhibit across various situations.

Personality tests can be used to help clarify a clinical diagnosis, guide

PERSONALITY

therapeutic interventions, and help predict how people may respond in

different situations.

Personality is something that we informally assess and describe every day.

PROCESSES
When we talk about ourselves and others, we frequently refer to different

characteristics of an individual's personality. Psychologists do much the same

thing when they assess personality but on a more systematic and scientific

level.

USED FOR:
Personality tests are designed to systematically elicit information about a

person's motivations, preferences, interests, emotional make-up, and style

of interacting with people and situations. Personality measures can be in

the form of interviews, in-basket exercises, observer ratings, or self-report

inventories (i.e., questionnaires).

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 UNOBTRUSIVE

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MEASURE
DEFINITION:
A gauge attained without disrupting the

involved party or alerting them to a gauge being

made. The actions or reactions of these involved

parties are thus presumed to be unimpacted by

the investigative procedure or the surrounding

climate.

PROCEDURE:
Unobtrusive measures are contrasted with interviews and questionnaires; in that they try to find indirect

ways to obtain the necessary data. The unobtrusive approach often seeks unusual data sources, such

as garbage, graffiti and obituaries, as well as more conventional ones such as published statistics.
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Protocol
USED FOR:
A think-aloud (or thinking aloud) protocol is a method used to gather data in usability testing in

product design and development, in psychology and a range of social sciences (e.g., reading,

writing, translation research, decision making, and process tracing).

PROCEDURE:
A typical procedure of think-aloud protocols would include:

Design the study and write the guide: Determine the number and type of participant for the study.

Generally, 5 participants would be sufficient. The next step is to write a guide that ask the

participants to complete the tasks intended with clear step-by-step instructions. In the script, there

should be reminders to participants to say their thoughts out when performing tasks.

Recruit participants: The team should set up a screener for eligibility of participants. After

contacting the person of interest and setting up meeting details such as time and location, the

team could also provide additional information to help participant better prepare for the activity.

Conduct think-aloud protocol: After stating the purpose and asking for consent, the team should

proceed by giving instructions to the participant. Ask open-ended questions and follow-up

questions. The team should avoid asking leading questions or giving clues.

Think-aloud protocols involve participants thinking aloud as they are performing a set of specified Analyze the findings and summarize insights: The team should use notes taken during the sessions to

tasks. Participants are asked to say whatever comes into their mind as they complete the task. This generate insights and to find common patterns. Based on the findings, the design team could then

might include what they are looking at, thinking, doing, and feeling. This gives observers insight into decide directions to take action on.

the participant's cognitive processes (rather than only their final product), to make thought processes As Kuusela and Paul state, the think-aloud protocol can be distinguished into two different types of

as explicit as possible during task performance. In a formal research protocol, all verbalizations are experimental procedures. The first is the concurrent think-aloud protocol, collected during the task. The

transcribed and then analyzed. In a usability testing context, observers are asked to take notes of second is the retrospective think-aloud protocol, gathered after the task as the participant walks back

what participants say and do, without attempting to interpret their actions and words, and especially through the steps they took previously, often prompted by a video recording of themselves. There are

noting places where they encounter difficulty. Test sessions may be completed on participants own benefits and drawbacks to each approach, but in general a concurrent protocol may be more

devices or in a more controlled setting. Sessions are often audio- and video-recorded so that complete, while a retrospective protocol has less chance to interfere with task performance.

developers can go back and refer to what participants did and how they reacted.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Rorschach test, also called the Rorschach inkblot test, in which a person is asked to

describe what they see in ambiguous inkblot images. This projective test often

appears in popular culture and is frequently portrayed as a way of revealing a

person’s unconscious thoughts, motives, or desires.

USED FOR: PROCEDURE:

The Rorschach test has grown to be one of
The Rorschach test employs a series of ten bilaterally

the most popularly used psychological tests. symmetrical inkblot cards, of which some are black or gray,

It's primarily used in psychotherapy and and others could contain applications of color.

counseling. ·The test taker is asked to provide their perceptions or

Those who use it regularly do so as a way of perspectives on the presented ambiguous inkblot images.

obtaining a great deal of qualitative

·This test was designed to look for patterns of thought

disorder in schizophrenia and has evolved to include other

information about a person, including their
areas, like personality, emotional disorders, and intelligence.
personality, emotional functioning, and
·The Rorschach has been standardized using the Exner
thinking patterns. The therapist and client
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PICTURE-WORLD TEST
A projective method for kids

wherein the involved party

composes a story about realistic

scenes, adding items or figures as

they wish. The child is directed to

imagine either a world which

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they wish was.

TSET NOITANIMRETEDREVO With regard to psychoanalytic theory, the

idea postulating that many unconscious

facets might mix to generate one

symptom, dream, dysfunction, or facet of

behavior. Since motivators and defenses

function at the same time and stem from

varied layers of the character, a dream

might depict more than one connotation,

and a sole symptom might serve more than

one purpose or satisfy more than one

unconscious desire.

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 PERSONALITY

ASSESSMENT
Personality Assessment is a proficiency in

professional psychology that involves the

administration, scoring, and interpretation of

empirically supported measures of personality traits

and styles in order to:

Refine clinical diagnoses;

Structure and inform psychological interventions;

and

Increase the accuracy of behavioral prediction in

a variety of contexts and settings (e.g., clinical,

forensic, organizational, educational).

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