The Use Of Peer Reported Data Is A Psychometric Tool

20. ____ is based on the notion that people make implicit social comparisons with others when making ratings on scales, rather than relying on direct inferences about a private, personal value system (Peng, Nisbett, & Wong, 1997).

Undergraduate students enrolled in introductory personality psychology courses at The Pennsylvania State University from the Altoona and University Park campuses will be recruited for participation. All students enrolled in the courses will be required to complete the procedure for this study to earn a grade in the course, however, they will be required to give their consent to use their data in the present study in exchange for extra credit in the course. Those who do not consent to use their data will be omitted from the study and will be offered an alternative course assignment to earn the same amount of extra credit as those who opted to participate. Each participant’s age, race, and gender will be collected for use for comparison

Undergraduate students enrolled in a general psychology course will participate for course credit. Participants will first complete the Experiences In Close Relationships Questionnaire (a measure of attachment style in romantic relationships; Fraley, Niedenthal, Marks, Brumbauh, & Vicary, 2006), the Relationship Questionnaire (a measure of general attachment; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991), and the Eyesenck Personality Questionnaire (a measure of key components of personality that fall under the four categories of extraversion, introversion, stability and neuroticism; (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975) that will serve as the basis for the falsified results that indicate the potential for a “future alone”. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Control (No feedback), social exclusion condition (future alone), or social inclusion condition (future belonging) (Twenge et al., 2001; 2002; 2007; Dewall et al., 2009). The feedback, if given will consist of a response by the experimenter that predicts a life of fulfillment and significant relationships or a life with little to no relationships of significance. The participants receiving no feedback are representative of the control condition. The participant will be told the feedback is based on the results of the personality questionnaire he or she has filled

Kerchoff and Davis used their model to do a study on students who had been together for more than or less than 18 months. They were asked to complete questionnaires over 7 months on attitudes and personality of their partners compared to theirs; it was found that this was important in relationships up

| Peer centred relationships now of high importance. Peer acceptance of great importance to self esteem. An interest developing in sexual relationships, experimenting may start to occur. Peer groups begin to separate in those of attraction, mutual interests and more closely bonded friendships made. The youth experiments with social roles and explores options for career choice.

Musatti, T. (1986). Early peer relations: The perspectives of Piaget and Vygotsky. In E. C. Mueller & C. R. Cooper (Eds.), Process and outcome in peer relationships (pp. 25-53). Orlando, FL: Academic

The results of the questions ‘Who am I’ were categorised into one of the four of Rosenberg’s categories. (Appendix B) and then the totals were added for each category. These totals were in turn, worked into percentages. These percentages are shown in a chart. (Appendix C). The percentage scores for the category physical decreases from 100% to 45% across the 8 year difference. Participant A, Annie scored 100% in physical attributes. None of the participants’ answers were interpreted as scoring in the characteristic or relationships categories, but participant B, Adam scored the majority, 55% of his answers in the ‘inner ‘section. These results collated would concur with Rosenberg’s findings that with age, ones self descriptors move away from physical attributes to more personal beliefs.

As people mature, from child to teenager, they walk away from every relationship having learned something; a life lesson, the type of person they want to grow to be, etc. During the teenage years, students have trouble maintaining that connection with their mentors, parents, and friends while stressing about their academic performance, general quality of life, and many other factors. Due to those circumstances, a teenager usually goes through a time period of learning what they want to gain from each person, and how to make sure they’re maintaining healthy relationships with their loved ones. Furthermore, all relationships are interconnected; for example, if one doesn’t know how to talk to a teacher, they might have trouble in the workforce when they have to talk to a boss. A teenager spends a lot of their teenage years creating, maintaining, and fixing relationships so they can be successful in

Problems with reliability must be resolved in order to have confidence in findings Validity * The degree to which your experimental results can be applied to external population 2 Terms that connect directly to things in lecture: * Looking Glass Self * Take others’ perceptions of you to formulate your own self concept Generalized Other (p 78) *

This is the report to the Psychology 100 class assignment. In the assignment, I handed out surveys about my personality and asked others to rate me; then I collected and analyzed the data. The results will show that how other people see me may or may not be the same as I see myself.

Self report is a type of psychological test in which a person fills out a survey or questionnaire. The purpose of this test is to find out the participants interests, values, behaviors, and traits or personality types. An example would be asking a participant about their feelings, attitudes, beliefs and so on.. Projective assessment is a type of personality test in which the individual offers responses to ambiguous scenes, words or images. An example of this would be looking at various pictures and determining any internal emotions stirred inside. This test designed to reveal hidden emotions and internal conflicts from inside the participant. Behavior assessment is a is a method used in the field of psychology to observe, describe, explain,

Once the purpose of the measure has been established, one can define the content of the measure, which will be established by the content domain. A test developer fist operationally defines the content domain (Moerdyk, 2009). Secondly the purpose is considered and various methods are used according to the settings (rational approach and empirical criterion keying approach), these can be combined as well (Foxcroft & Roodt, 2009). The next step in the planning phase would be to develop the test plan. In order to develop the test plan the design would need to be considered. The design is considered according to two aspect which are; the stimulus to the test taker- response and the method for the response. Item formats which a test- taker could respond to are as follows; Open ended items such as narrative or essays in which there is no limitation, Forced choice items such as dichotomous, likert scale questions and ipsative format; sentence completion items and performance based items. In all items one would consider the time limits to be imposed which would affect the response. If I am interested in assessing personality, a performance based item would be used. Depending on the method for response, who is involved in the administration of calculating the test results, different approaches would be taken. For example in the case of which one answer is correct, an

The personality assessment inventory tests provide results on my individual personality, values, motivation, decision making, communication, team skills, conflict skills, organizational structure preference, and stress. These results are broken down briefly in three parts and do not include any personal speculation or analysis as to their meaning. The application of these results are further applied and explains how the results noted from the tests and in the first step will make me a better employee, co-worker, and manager within my organization. These tests mentioned above are applied in conjunction with particular examples on how I can achieve becoming a better employee, co-worker, and manager. An explanation of how my personality and experiences were affected by the Holy Spirit is also discussed. Particularly, how potential weaknesses have become strengths with the guidance of the Lord.

Psychometric assessment tests have exploded in popularity within recent years in clinical psychology. They are used to help diagnose a number of behavioral issues, including ADD and ADHD in both children and adults. They are quite successful in pulling out major factors that would lead to such a behavioral diagnosis, yet at the same time they are often overused alone, and without the solidifying material of interviews or other assessment methods. When used alone, they often do not provide enough of the picture to make a sufficient diagnosis, and thus are often ineffective by themselves. As such, psychometric tests are effective, but only when used in a multifaceted approach that relies on other assessment methods.

Peer relations are one of the most important aspect of children development, as it is throughout these interactions that children and adolescent learns to function in a society. Studies show that peer rejection or lack of acceptance in childhood is linked to future low academic performance and drop out (Rubin, cited in Wainright and Patterson 2008). The relationship between parent and children seem to be the key for the success of building good social relationships. Wainright and Patterson (2008) found that children who stated to have a positive relationship with their parents, regardless of whether parents were homosexual or heterosexuals, had a