Personality Assessment

  • 2. as an aid to theory building and testing
  • B. Latent Variables and Measured Variables
  • 2. Observed Scales as transformations of Latent Variables
  • 3. Scales and levels of measurement
  • C. Basic Concepts

  • 2. Measures of Dispersion
  • 3. Measures of relationship
  • D. Reliability and Validity

  • 2. Validity
  • 3. Causal modeling
  • E. Scale construction

  • 2. Guidelines for test development
  • F. Sources of data

  • 2. Other ratings
  • 3. archival/unobtrusive measures
  • 4. Neuropsychological
  • 5. Performance tests
  • G. What is actually measured

  • 2. agreement across modalities
  • H. Ethics in measurement