List of three key factors have been identified for determinants of Personality. Personality Psychologists had huge interest in these.
Biological Factors.
These are the physical determinants based on physique and body functioning that ...
Functional analysis is the main tool of behavioural assessment. The triple response mode: motor, cognitive, physiological are used to define behavioural problems and diverse potential causes, multi-causality, are accepted.
For example, an ...
In behavioural assessment, constituents of a behaviour are measured to understand why certain behaviour happens and what caused that behaviour.
The constituents include feelings, cognition's and overt behaviors and their controlling variables. ...
In a projective test, the individual offers responses to ambiguous scenes, words or images. This type of test emerged from the psychoanalytic school of thought, which suggested that people have unconscious thoughts or urges.
These projective ...
TESTING AND MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS OF ASSESSMENT.
Assessment techniques must meet the four technical criteria: standardization, norms, reliability and validity.
Standardization.
Standardization means the uniform procedures adopted in the ...
Allport viewed psychology as the study of the healthy person. He believed, in contrast to for example the psycho-analysts, that studying the healthy personality is much different and incompatible with that of the pathological personality. Another ...
Cattell suggested that there is a continuum of personality traits. Each person contains 16 traits to a certain degree, but they might be high in some traits and low in others. The following are the 16 personality dimensions described by Cattell.
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Maslow believed all human beings have a common set of basic needs: these needs dictate the behaviour of individuals at all times. There are two basic principles which determine which particular needs determine the behaviour of an individual, the ...
According to Abraham Maslow, human actions are motivated in order achieve certain needs. His concept of a hierarchy of needs suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs. This hierarchy is ...
Humanistic psychologists try to see people's lives as those people would see them. They tend to have an optimistic perspective on human nature. They focus on the ability of human beings to think consciously and rationally, to control their ...
B.F. Skinner is famous for his research on operant conditioning. He found that behaviour did not depend on the preceding stimulus as Watson and Pavlov maintained. Instead, Skinner found that behaviours were dependent upon what happens after the ...
Ivan Pavlov suggested that differences in personality are because of the learning and different environmental experiences. Based on his observations after experiments on dogs, Pavlov, suggested that the salivation of dog was a learned response. The ...
