PERSONALITY TEST - STAGE 2 PSYCHOLOGY



REVISION QUESTION BOOKLET

STAGE 2 PSYCHOLOGY

TOPIC: Personality

Faith Lutheran College

2018

PERSONALITY

1. Describe one humanistic conception of personality.

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2. Describe one form of subjective personality assessment.

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3. Psychodynamic conceptions of personality emphasise the importance of the unconscious mind.

Describe one conception of how the unconscious mind works to influence personality.

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4. Describe the difference between validity and reliability of personality assessments.

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5. Describe how assertiveness training can be used as a psychological intervention.

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6. Nicholas applies for a job at Ivan’s clothing store along with several other people. Ivan

intends to use the results of personality assessment to select a person for the job.

(a) Describe one advantage for Ivan of using the results of personality assessment to select a person for the job.

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(b) Describe one disadvantage for Nicholas if Ivan uses the results of personality assessment to select a person for the job.

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7. Explain two ethical issues associated with conducting personality tests.

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EXTENDED RESPONSE

Michelle is an outgoing person with a busy lifestyle. She is employed as a salesperson and regularly socialises with friends. Michelle pays carious sports, including A-grade cricket and tennis. Michelle enjoys playing these sports but also loves to win. As an employee of a large retail company, Michelle has been one for the two top salespeople for the last six months. She still worries about doing better. She intends to apply for a promotion to the position of assistant manager. She becomes frustrated regularly by co-workers who she believes do not work as hard as she does.

Discuss conceptions of personality. Your response should include a description of:

• One trait conception of personality

• Two of Michelle’s personality traits that illustrate the trait conception of personality you described above

• One strength and one weakness of trait conceptions of personality

• One psychodynamic conception of personality

A recommended approach to writing this response is 2 well made points per dot point – 4 marks each, pus 4 marks for communication

(20 marks)

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PERSONALITY (22 marks)

1. Describe one Trait conception of personality.

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2. Describe one criticism of trait conceptions of personality. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3. Standardised self-report inventories are one of the main forms of personality assessment used today.

Describe this form of personality assessment

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4. State one form of personality assessment that could be described as a qualitative method

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5. Psychodynamic conceptions of personality emphasise the importance of the unconscious mind.

Describe one conception of how the unconscious mind works to influence personality.

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6. Describe the difference between validity and reliability of personality assessments.

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EXTENDED RESPONSE

Chelsea is an accountant for a large company. She knows that it is important for her to stay focused during the day because some of her work is complicated. During her break times she goes for a short walk to get something to eat and drink.

Outside of work, Chelsea is generally quiet and reserved. She often finds it easier to go along with what her friends want, rather than cause conflict. Recently Chelsea has made some new friends at work. She feels that her new friends value her opinions and respect what she does for the company. As a result, Chelsea has become more confident.

Explain

• how Chelsea’s personality may have developed using a humanistic conception of personality.

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• how assertiveness training can be used as a psychological intervention to assist Chelsea outside of work. (4 marks)

• two ethical issues associated with using psychological interventions to modify people’s behaviour.

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Extended Response: Psychodynamic

Students in a psychology class were asked to list words or phrases that describe personality using psychodynamic conceptions. One student prepared the following list:

controlling quiet and unsociable curious

critical excessively neat and tidy pleasure seeker

overly efficient moralistic creative

sensitive attachment to one parent extremely rational

always feels guilty childish instinctive

affectionate represses memories hero

nurturing rebellious hostile

• Describe how two of the responses listed above relate to a psychodynamic conception of personality.

• Describe one strength and one weakness of psychodynamic conceptions of personality.

• Describe one form of personality assessment.

• Discuss validity, using personality assessment as an example.

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Name one theorist associated with a humanistic conception of personality.

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2. Describe one model of the unconscious in any psychodynamic conception of personality.

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3. Describe, giving one example, the concept of ‘traits’ in any trait conception of personality.

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4. Describe one form of personality assessment.

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5. Describe one major criticism levelled at personality tests.

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SECTION B: EXTENDED-RESPONSE QUESTION (20 marks)

Answer the following question in this section on the pages provided. You should spend 5 minutes planning and 20 minutes writing.

6. Principles from psychodynamic conceptions of personality are often applied in the depiction and analysis of characters in the popular media (e.g. movies, television shows, and literature). For example, Freud and Jung have both described the behaviour of the aggressive type, although they use different terminology. Psychodynamic principles can be applied to other types, such as villains, heroes, and comedians.

• Choose a certain personality type and discuss the characteristics of that type in terms of psychodynamic theory.

• Use one example from cinema, or television, or a popular novel to illustrate your discussion.

• Describe two strengths of your chosen theorist’s model.

• Describe two weaknesses of your chosen theorist’s model.

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