Trait Theory: Unit 9
ALL WORK FOR THIS UNIT IS DUE BY
MONDAY April 11, AT 9:00 AM CST
Note: This unit involves the taking of several
online personality tests and the analysis of the results. As usual,
this is an ACADEMIC exercise, feel free to ask an anonymous friend
take the test adn present/analyze his/her results if that feels
more comfortable to you.
- Read Ch 9 and 10 in Schultz and Schultz
- Take the Study Guides if you wish.
- Take the two
quizzes for Ch 9 and 10
- Online tests exploration:
Note: A number of the tests below will have redundant
items, from one test to the other, but they will be classified
differently, depending upon the theory. So, be patient, and take
them all anyway. Respond as accurately as you can, but also don't
take too long in responding. Think the item through, and respond.
Hesitating, second guessing yourself make results less useful.
The tests below are not authentic, normed, psychological tests.
But they ARE a good quality popular version. Their main aim is
to give you a sense of the theory, and help you apply it.
- Take the Values
Test developed by Dr George Boeree professor
in the Psychology Department at Shippensburg University, adapted
from A Study of Values, by Allport, Vernon, and Lindzey.
It is designed to provide insight into Gordon Allport's theory.
Because of the brevity of the test, the results should not
be taken too seriously!
Interpret your results, in terms of Allport's 6 values category,
p 266 of Schultz and Schultz.
- Take an online popular version
of the Cattell
16PF test. When you get to the link, enter your
gender and click the NEXT button.
The test is 85 questions long. It is not the
"real" 16PF, but is a version made to approximate
it
When you have taken the test. it will give you a list of the
traits, and at what percentile you situate yourself, and a
list of the traits below this. With this, and the list in
your text on p.279, look at your results.
It may be helpful to pay special attention to at your highest
scores and your lowest scores.
- Take a personality
test based on Eysenck's theory. When you get
to the link, enter your gender, your MBTI type (one of the
choices is "don't know", and click the NEXT button.
The test is 46 questions long.
When you have taken the test, it will give you your percentile
on the 3 Eysenck factors, an interpretation below, and also
your placement in the temperament circle.
Relate this interpretation to the information on Eysenck in
the text pp 288 ff
- Take the IPIP-NEO
test. Go to the link, scroll down the page, check
the two boxes and click the SEND button.
This is a 300 questions test, so it will take you a while.
Because of its length, its information is pretty valid. It
will give you a rather full interpretation also.
Relate this interpretation to the information about the the
Big Five-Factor Model. pp 292ff in Schultz and Schultz.
- Do the following with your results: (note: as always, this
is an ACADEMIC exercise to use the theory. Feel free to give the
tests to an anonymous friend and interpret their results if you
prefer that to sharing your own results)
- Post your results for each test and interpretation in the
Trait Test Results
discussion
forum. Were your results consistent with each other? With
the Jungian type you worked with earlier (Myers-Briggs)? (only
one posting per student in this forum --no need to respond
to other posts)
- How useful is the "trait" approach (compared to
other approaches you have studied)? Which one of these "trait"
approaches do you think is most promising? Why? Post your
thoughts in the Evaluating
the Trait Approach
discussion forum, and respond to at least one other post.
ALL WORK FOR THIS UNIT IS DUE BY
MONDAY April 11, AT 9:00 AM CST
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