Dec 03, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Academic Catalog 2024-2025
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PSY-710C Objective Personality Assessment

3 semester credits


This course combines an exploration of the construct of personality and the conceptual issues in the measurement of personality with specific training in the applied skill of personality assessment using structured tests, primarily the MMPI-2.
Pre-requisites: PSY-710A PSY-710B  and PSY-715A  must be completed previously or taken concurrently.
Delivery Method: Blended
Grading Default: Letter Only
Learning Outcome(s):  

  1. Describe the basic assumptions about the nature of personality and the nature of measurement involved in objective psychological assessment of personality and psychopathology.
  2. Explain the critique of personality assessment by those who assert the importance of situations and culture in the evaluation or prediction of human functioning.
  3. Summarize some of the critiques of traditional personality assessment based on other understandings of personality (i.e., CAPS) and other systems of measurement (i.e., Rasch Modeling)
  4. Use this information in the critique of psychological tests and in the interpretation of results from psychological testing using the MMPI-2. (LAB)

 



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