Personality Assessment

This training course will include the following modules:

• Introduction
• Perceptions and Misconceptions of People
  • Over-Simplification
  • Rigidity
  • Egocentricity and Projection
  • Naïve Personality Theories and Stereotypes
  • Perceptual Styles
  • Belief in the Correctness of our Interpretations

• Understanding Personality
  • The Shaping of Personality
• Personality Theories
  • The Trait Approach
  • Personality Types
  • Traits Versus Types
  • What are Basic Traits?
  • Evaluation of the Trait Approach

• Personality Theories (Continued)
  • The Social Learning Approach
  • Reinforcement in Learning and Performance
  • Reciprocal Interaction of Person and Situation
  • Person Variables
  • Self-Generated Environments
  • Evaluation of Social Learning Approach
  • The Psychoanalytic Approach
  • Personality Structure
  • Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Theory
  • The Phenomenological Approach
  • Self Theory
  • Evaluation of the Phenomenological Approach

• The Consistency of the Personality
  • Primacy and Recency Effects
  • Cues and their Interpretation

• Practicable Methods of Assessment
  • Observational Methods
  • Personality Inventories
  • Problems with Personality Inventories

• Personal Concepts
  • Physical Appearance
  • Competence
  • Similarity
  • The Attribution Process
  • Covariance Rule
  • Discounting Rule
  • Inferring One's Own Personality Traits