For this assignment, you will apply your knowledge of personality by conducting a personality analysis on a person of your choosing (e.g., someone in your life, a celebrity, movie character, cartoon, famous person in history, etc.). This assignment will require you to demonstrate your ability to apply personality theory and interpret personality assessments. Below is an outline of the steps required to complete the assignment.
Instructions: You must measure your subject’s personality using three approaches to personality. That is, choose three assessments or approaches that you believe to be a comprehensive measurement of your subject’s personality. Then, write a paper describing your approach to personality assessment and the insights gained from your analysis.
You can be creative with your approach to this assignment. Ask yourself: What do I want to know about my subject? Then, select the appropriate approaches to gathering this information!
Steps to completing assignment:
Select a subject to assess
This may be any person of your choosing, from someone in your life to a fictional or historic character.
Identify what you want to learn about your subject. This includes traits, goals or motives, attachment, the self, identity, etc.
Choose three approaches to measure the subject’s personality. You may use any approach discussed in class.
See the attachment for details of assessments
. Below is an overview of some of the approaches we discussed:
1. Dispositional trait
Traits can be measured by any of the following: The Big Five Inventory Behavioral observation Life data Informant data2. Characteristic adaptations Characteristic adaptations can be measured by any of the following: Goals/ motives/ personal strivings Attachment tendencies The self: self-esteem, self-concept3. Identity Identity can be measured by any of the following: Identity Status Model Generativity Integrative life stories4. Interpret the results by explaining what your personality analysis may indicate about the subject’s personality.5. Support the personality analysis with examples or real-life evidence.6. Provide discussion, address limitations and outline concluding thoughtsPaper Outline– I recommend writing the paper in the following way:• Introduction section (~1 paragraph) o Introduce the subject and provide brief background information about them o Describe your goals by stating what information you intended to learn about the subject o Describe the approaches you used to gather the information about your subject o Explain why these approaches selected provided comprehensive insight into your subject’s personality For each Approach (~2-3 paragraphs) o Introduce the first approach used o Provide background on this theory and/or assessment o Explain how you measured personality, what assessments you used, what trait, behavior, or outcome you measured o Describe the subject’s results on this assessment o Interpret the results by describing the insights gained from this approach to personality What do the results mean/ say about personality? What behaviors and life outcomes may correspond with the results of the assessment? o Use examples and your real-life experience with the subject to support findings
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