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personality
personality in psychology, the patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion unique to an individual, and the ways they interact to help or hinder the adjustment of a person to other people and situations. A number of theories have attempted to explain human personality. In his psychoanalytic interpre... Read more
Elisabeth
Elisabeth For persons thus named, use Elizabeth. ... Read more
Mohammed
Mohammed For persons thus named, use Muhammad. ... Read more
living will
living will legal document in which a person expresses in advance his or her wishes concerning the use of artificial life support , to be referred to should the person be unable to communicate such wishes at the end of life. A living will usually goes into effect only when two physicians certify t... Read more
communicable diseases
communicable diseases illnesses caused by microorganisms and transmitted from an infected person or animal to another person or animal. Some diseases are passed on by direct or indirect contact with infected persons or with their excretions. Most diseases are spread through contact or close proximi... Read more
William Byrde
William Byrde For persons thus named, use Byrd, William. ... Read more
de Broglie
de Broglie For persons thus named use Broglie. ... Read more
Katharine
Katharine or Katherine. For some persons thus named, use Catherine. ... Read more
Pinkney
Pinkney For some persons thus named, use Pinckney. ... Read more
Theophilus
Theophilus , person to whom St. Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Projective measures of personality"

Psychological Tests
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence ...achievement and ability, personality, and neurological...career counseling). Personality tests are administered...psychopathology (e.g., personality disorder, depressive...setting to determine personality strengths and...are formalized measures of mental functioning...however, certain ... Read more
Figure drawings
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...drawings are projective diagnostic techniques...assessed. Purpose A projective test is one in...While other projective tests, such as...are primarily measures of cognitive...tests involve personality interpretation...limitations of projective tests should...drawings in a more ... Read more
psychological test
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the need to understand personality and its relationship to psychological disorders. Projective tests attempt to measure personality based on the theory that...situations. Best known of the projective tests is that of the...patterns of reaction. Other personality tests use ... Read more
Children's Apperception Test
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...individually administered projective personality test appropriate for children...intended to measure the personality traits, attitudes, and...Apperception Test and other projective techniques. Precautions...evidence exists that the test measures needs, conflicts, or other...s need-based ... Read more
Thematic Apperception Test
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...Apperception Test, or TAT, is a projective measure intended to evaluate...TAT is an example of a projective instrument — that...description of the TAT and other projective assessments. Purpose Individual...tests intended to evaluate personality. It is considered to be...specific aspects of ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Projective measures of personality"

projective tests
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology projective tests A type of test...designed to measure overall personality dynamics rather than discrete...underlying principles of projective tests—the generic...set of ink-blots. Other projective tests include the Thematic...their value in assessing personality dynamics. Read more
personality
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...cases. The Freudian theory of personality has been most widely used...examination of an individual's personality, as in Freud's own classic...grounded in a general theory of personality which, in its best-known version, delineates a tripartite personality structure of id, ego, and...superego, and ... Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

Projective methods reveal what consumers like.
Newspaper article from: Emerging Food R&D Report; 12/1/2004; 519 words ; ...with the marketing institute tns gallup, have developed a new projective research system--NeedScope Senser--that helps consumers to...level, and SIK's sensory analysis method, which describes and measures the sensory properties of raw materials and products objectively... Read more
Handbook of personality assessment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2008; 194 words ; 9780471228813 Handbook of personality assessment. Weiner, Irving B...interpretation of the most widely used personality assessment instruments. They...practical applications of these measures. The text is addressed to two...students who are learning about personality assessment methods and ... Read more
The Sage handbook of personality theory and assessment; 2v.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2008; 239 words ; 9781412923644 The Sage handbook of personality theory and assessment; 2v...the theories and practices of personality assessment, often incorporating...the question. V.1, devoted to personality theories and models, contains...format continues in V.2, on personality measurement and testing, ... Read more
Rorschachiana; journal of the International Society for the Rorschach; v.29, issues 1 and 2, 2008.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 148 words ; ...UK) compiles six articles, a special session on forensic Rorschach assessment and projective methods, and a case study of the integrative process of personality assessment. Articles discuss the relationship between a self-report measure of interpersonal... Read more
Perotistas: who are these people, anyway? (supporters of Ross Perot)
Magazine article from: Campaigns & Elections; 8/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...to Bush or Clinton voters, and on all measures of political opinion, interest, or awareness...exhibit some of the traits of a cult of personality, but they may not be willing to transfer...Perot was explained to voters (using a projective research technique) and it was suggested... Read more