A comparison of the Rorschach and Myers-Briggs Assessments submitted to: Dr. Lu Ezekanaga PY525 Abstract This paper was designed to evaluate two different assessments used in the process of personality assessment. The assessments that will be compared and contrasted in this paper are the Myers-Brigg and the Rorschach. Both tests have been used widely in the field of personality assessment. However, there are some positives and negatives to using one assessment over the other depending on what aspect of personality is being assessed. This paper will discuss the beneficial and non-beneficial aspects of both assessments.
2. Why is the decrease of air pressure with increasing altitude more rapid when the air is cold? Cold air is associated with low pressure. So the inherently low-pressure air loses pressure more rapidly as the altitude increases. Air pressure drops more rapidly with altitude in a column of cold air.
Best examples are Transaction Analysis and Therapeutic Spiral Model. Skill and role based personality models (Eneagram, DISC) are more compatible with Role Theory than aspect and trait based models. There are several psychometric tests intending to measure skills, aspects, roles, etc. Test design follows some basic patterns: a list of questions or statements are presented and multiple choice or scaling is made by the person. The result is a diagram showing the persons' ability, capacity, etc.
This is different from a conversational comment that someone has a great personality because theorist work at addressing the “what”, “how”, and “why” of personality. For example, individuals tend to formulate informal assessment of a person’s personality like the person is energetic, aggressive, or stubborn. Personality causes individuals to respond in certain ways as it influences their respond to the environment. Psychologists on the other hand, apply ideas of personality that can be applied to everyone. On a psychological view, personality is thought to be affected by biological processes and needs (Cervone & Pervin, 2010).
Backus seems to ignore the idea that behavior development is influenced by more than thought alone. Backus at best minimize some serious elements of human development, cognitive thought process and mental health issues. Their statement that
To control or eliminate these threats, controlled experiments are done. 4. The quantitative method is a research technique the produces measureable results that can be analyzed statistically. The qualitative method of research produces subjective results or results that are difficult to quantify. With the qualitative method, there is more room for interpretation.
Qualitative researchers employ different research methodologies from quite different epistemological positions aiming to understand how people make sense of the world and how they experience events. This paper will focus on two of these methods, Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and Discursive Psychology, describing their histories, epistemological positions, goals and methodology. The analytical methods of each discipline will then be critically evaluated, using 2 published research papers by Wilde & Murray (2009) and Guise, McKinlay, & Widdicombe (2010) with a commentary on the limitations of each of the research methods in turn. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) has a relatively short history. Founded by Jonathan Smith
Carrying out the research using the individual differences approach is useful in understanding how individuals with mental health problems can be dealt with. However, the cognitive approach has many useful applications like in the Loftus & Palmer when we now are aware of the implications after using leading questions which will distort a witness’ memory and may make up facts about a particular
By comparing and contrasting two of these approaches the behaviourist and the biological approach it will highlight the different aspects to each approach. Psychology evolved through three subjects’ philosophy, biology and physics. It developed through stages and views, firstly with Psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive, humanistic and lastly biological. Main body Behaviourists believed that we are shaped by the way our behaviours are rewarded. Behaviourists want results, by which they can check measure and observe on the stimulus and the reacted response.
These results suggest that in favour of psychological intervention, task-focused coping strategies are the more adaptive of coping strategies. It may also suggest that psychologically minded individuals may use more effectual coping strategies. Future research should aim in gathering a more representative sample of a non-clinical population and employ a measure more reliable than online surveys. The relationship between coping and psychopathology, both anxiety and depression, is centre of an immense amount of research (Endler & Parker, 1990; Hovanitz, 1986). Coping styles and the forms of psychopathology (depression and anxiety) have been found to be implicated in the measure of psychological mindedness (PM; Nyklicek, Poot, & Opstal, 2010; Nyklicek & Denollet, 2009).