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Personality Assessment - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Makeup affects attractiveness, trust likeability, competence perception, however glamorous makeup is trusted less
  - - - Four stages:
        
        First, the person being judged must do something relevant i.e. informative about the person being judged
        
        Second, this information must be available to a judge
        Third, this judge must detect this information
        
        Fourth, and finally, the judge must utilise this information correctly
        
        Important implication: accuracy of personality judgement can be improved in four different ways
- - - - Methods for construction:
        
        Rational - developer decides to test personality constructs based on pre-existing theory e.g. PRF
        
        Empirical - purely empirical method the most important thing is the empirical criterion, want to see items correlate with specific empirical trait e.g. MMPI
        
        Factor Analytic - mathematical technique e.g. IPIP Big 5
    - - Used by psychodynamic theroists as believe most important parts of our personality are hidden to ourselves
      - Not widely used today, clinicians are most likely to use them
        Issues surrounding their validity and reliability are controversial