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Prompt: Personality Assessments

In order to better describe themselves or reveal their true colors, people take personality tests and assessments. A personality assessment, often called behavioral assessment (Wood, 368), is designed to discover the frequency of one's behaviors. While personality tests (Wood, 371) are used to categorize traits one obtains and focus on core personality traits. Personality tests and assessments are often used by doctors, particularly clinical psychologists and psychiatrists (Wood, 368), and for people striving to decide what their future career should be. The personality tests Professor Barrett asked his students to take were called "The Big Five" and "MMDI". Between the two tests, I observed that the MMDI test was much more detailed than The Big Five. Between the two tests, the MMDI was closer to the person I believe I am, leading me to the conclusion that the MMDI has a higher validity than The Big Five. Another observation I noted was that before taking The Big Five Test, the browser stated that it could potentially shut off at any given time. This act led me to the to consider the MMDI more reliable than The Big Five. Personality traits are constantly changing due to different social environments, daily life, and an individual aging or maturing. Overall, I believe both of these reports proved to be vague in information and reasoning. In order to determine someone's personality, more data must be collected. Also, in order to maintain an accurate description, the test must be retaken over a certain period of time or after a major life change.

References:

[|"MMDI Online Report." //MMDI Online Report//. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 July 2014. [|"personalitytest.org.uk."//personalitytest.org.uk//. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July 2014. .]

Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. // Mastering the World of Psychology //. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

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