Essays on Personality Assessment

The psychoanalytic theory of personality was developed by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century, and has developed since then into a mode of investigation that uses the interactions between the conscious and unconscious mind as a framework to determine the source of psychological attributes and problems (Lazarus et al., 2014). In essence, this theory of personality dictates that human behavior is often irrational and governed by subconscious forces that cannot be strictly controlled. By investigating these impulses and the motivations behind them, it is possible to better understand ourselves and address our potential issues. The way psychoanalysis is ...

Psychological testing was developed to examine the cognitive and behavioral aspects of a patient. A variety of tests have been created to evaluate the individual to determine either the diagnosis of the individual or simply to attain an assessment or evaluation of the individual. Each test discussed below can provide advantages to the forensic setting. The validity and reliability of these tests have been extensively evaluated and are discussed. 1. Mental Status Exam The Mental Status Exam (“MSE”) is used to evaluate a patient’s mental functions and behaviors. The MSE was created as a tool for clinical psychologists ...

ABSTRACT

Child pornography is generally considered an almost unspeakable perversion. John Doe is a 21-year old Caucasian male that has been arrested and tried for possession and distribution of this material. A postarrest mental health assessment shows that his main problems are social and emotional in nature. The criminal postarrest assessment hypothesizes that this criminal activity may be due to social awkwardness. These two differ in nature because the former looks to establish a mental evaluation, exploring the personal aspects of this activity, while the second looks for motives in order to contrast his behavior with the law. He has ...

The name of the business will be “Mr. Sheeda.” It is a fictitious comic character that, and the name is of this character. This name has been used to form unique associations with the business name. The name has its origin from one of the workers working at a Desi Restaurant. Mr. Sheeda is a unique name and is not used by any other business corporation operating in New York State. It will be checked from the “Division of Corporations, State Records, and UCC.” This division is a subset of Department of States of the State New York. It ...

Personality tests have been used for a long period to evaluate the psychological makeup of individuals. The validity and reliability of the various personality tests has been the subject of protracted debates especially along the lines of objective and projective tests. Objective tests have been thought to be more reliable than projective ones (Gregory, 2007). Overall, personality tests have been criticized because the individual undertaking them can give ambiguous generalizations that could apply to any person. MMPI and the Rorschach Inkblot Technique are among the most prominent personality tests.

Comparison and Contrast

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test is a self-report ...

Summary of Survey Results

Strong leadership serves as the backbone of any organization. They are the leaders, who formulate the vision and develop strategies to accomplish the objectives of any organization. In addition, leaders take along the employees and teams together with the organization success path. Considering the importance of strong leadership, organizations develop plans and strategies to choose the best leader. There are certain natural characteristics and skills that make up a person a strong leader. However, most of the leadership skills are self developed and so organizations put in effort by themselves through training and development, mentoring, and experiences to improve abilities and skills of ...

According to research conducted by Zunker (2005, p. 132), personality traits have two different approaches that define them. These include the nomothetic method and the idiographic one. However, the nomothetic method believes that individuals inherit their personality traits and there is no way the surrounding environment can affect them. However, the idiographic approach to personality differs with the nomothetic one because it draws focus on entire personalities of people. For example, it specializes on factors such as richness and complexity that are imperative in understanding the deeper details of an individual. Ferguson (2009, p. 132) also asserted that there ...

DISCUSSION-1

The Illinois ethics code on child abuse requires a psychologist to know the law and when in doubt, conduct consultations before documenting findings that can help in filling a court case. Law governs reporting a child abuse in Illinois. This protects helps as it protects the person reporting from lawsuit if the reported abuse is later not substantiated, provided the evidence provided before had seemed reasonable to support abuse and you consulted and documented your actions (Olson, Soldz & Davis, 2008). My response does not change depending on the state I am practicing because the ethic code in California and Illinois share ...

The following article is a journal about the results of tests conducted personally to two other different people plus me that aims at assessing us a as a whole from the emotional part to the physical part. It is conducted through answering a number of questions touching on the physical and emotional side of a person that brings out who they really are. The questions are then used to provide results in percentages of what one prefers most to the other. An assessment of the personalities is done and now comparisons are made between the different persons.

My results are that firstly, I slightly ...

Personality Assessment and Theories

In order to assess and test personality psychologists use four general methods: direct observation, personal interview, projective and objective tests. These methods are commonly associated with the major theories of personality in the following way: in the psychodynamic theory projective tests and personal interviews are used, as in here it is important to understand the unconscious thoughts, motives and feelings of a person, as well as the problems that are repressed since childhood. In the trait theory objective tests are used for personality assessment, as they allow to reveal and observe relatively permanent dispositions of individuals, which condition their thoughts, ...

Individuality or personality is something assessed or tested and illustrated daily. When speaking about oneself or others, frequent reference is made to the different traits of the personality of a person. Personality assessment can be defined as the techniques utilized to precisely and steadily take a measure of people’s personality. Some of the uses of these tests include; assessment of hypotheses, evaluation of therapy effectiveness, detecting personality changes, screening of candidates of a job and diagnosing of mental issues (Cook et al., 2005). The two forms of personality tests are projective assessments and self-report inventories. The former involves presentation of ...

1. Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory MMPI is an intensively researched, taught, and often used personality assessment tool. Most authors agree that that it is a meta-analytical review to demonstrate substantial reliability and good convergent validity. A researcher can use the tool to conduct sound theoretical and empirical rational concepts. Researchers that have used both MMPI and Rorschach variables observe disparate views of personality that becomes a momentous conundrum for the field of assessment. Butcher (2014) state that when clinicians face conflicts in the use of Rorschach and MMPI they should make a decision that emphasize on certain aspects of test findings ...

Psychology

Studies show that odor perception is directly related to the condition and functioning of the orbitofrontal cortex. The olfactory abilities of an otherwise normal human being can be largely impaired by neurological diseases as well as brain injuries. Moreover, scientists have also found that the ability to identify smells is often closely linked to functional brain activity levels. Killgore and Associates (2007) conducted a study to showcase the effectiveness of odor detection tests in predicting susceptibility to sleep deprivation as measured through Personality Tests. This experiment sought to prove that a small olfactory test can be a good predictor of emotional and ...

Article Summaries

According to Scarr and Richard, the influence of intelligence is due to genetics and environmental variables that are difficult to segregate. Psychologists often argue about the nature and the nurture of genetic variation fixes in the human behavior (Scarr and Richard 262). Some offer that genetic differences are negating to change in behavior. This belief has limitation since it fails to distinguish the environmental and the genetic sources of individual differences in behavior. In this case, one is not in a position to assess the impact of heredity in behavioral domains since all people have a gene complement expressed over development. ...

Introduction

Since the beginning years of personality research, most researchers have frequent recourse to personality ratings as a primary form of data in their empirical studies to assess and examine individual differences in personality characteristics. This immediate mobilization of personality judgments as well as ratings is understandable in most cases because the format mimics the use of trait adjectives and related terms in describing persons in everyday social life. Persons can be known by the impression they make on others as well as the descriptions others render on them. Human observers are sensitive instruments for not only monitoring but also interpreting ...

Background

Recent behavioral studies have shown the clinical relevance of meditation in the treatment of stress-related physiological and psychological illnesses. Kabat-Zinn et al. (1998) found that audio-induced mindfulness meditation reduced stress and increased the rate of healing of psoriatic lesions in patients with psoriasis. Krisanaprakornkit et al. (2006) reviewed a variety of meditation techniques on the effect of stress-related anxiety disorders and found that most meditation approaches can help patients self-regulate anxiety symptoms in a variety of anxiety conditions. In an extensive literature review comprising hundreds of studies conducted in the past 20 years, Jacobs (2001) also found that relaxation techniques and ...

Q1. What is the effect of VLSM therapy on state anxiety levels, as measured by the STAI?

Q2. What is the effect of VLSM therapy on perceived stress levels, as measured by the PSS? Research Method

This will be a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial designed to examine the effects of VLSM meditation therapy (Solfanelli, 2010) on state anxiety levels and perceived stress levels. As previously noted, state anxiety will be operationally defined as scores on Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), whereas stress will be operationally defined as scores on the Perceived Stress scale (PSS).

Audio-visual stimulation (AVS) ...

1. Based only on the consultant’s summary, which of the three candidates would you select as a leader for the group of loan officers? Discuss and defend your decision. J.T. this is because of his strong drive for achievement, power, self-assurance, confidence, impulsiveness and his adventurous tendency. His slowness to develop trusting relationships is also a plus as he cannot easily trust anybody as this is a very important aspect bearing in mind the nature of job he is being interviewed for. If he is a type of a person who easily trusts people, it is very likely that some loan officers can ...