Learning Module 1 Due: Saturday, February 13 at 11:59pm EST Readings Projections of Who You Are The Stability of Personality: Observations and Evaluations Online activity (1) "Personality Inventory" http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/web/personalityB.htm Complete the "Personality Inventory" above FIRST, and THEN read the debriefing statement below. Note: Answer all the questions and then hit the "SCORE TEST" button to get your analysis. That is all you need. The "finished" button leads to a broken link, but that doesn't matter--all you need is the analysis from the "SCORE TEST" button. Be advised that the "SCORE TEST" button gives you your analysis in a popup window--you may need to temporarily disable any popup blockers first. (2) "Debriefing for the Personality Inventory" http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/barnum_demo.htm Assignment Write a 2-page paper in which you discuss the following: 1. What are your thoughts on the Rorschach inkblot test? Does it seem to you like a valid and useful personality measure, and why or why not? 2. How do you feel about Costa and McCrae's assertion that personality is largely stable across adulthood? Do you see this as a good thing (as they do) or a bad thing, and why? 3. How accurate did your "personality inventory" feel to you? Now that you read the debriefing, what do you think was the point of this demonstration (as it pertains to personality tests in general)? Please answer the questions separately and number them. If the assignment has three questions, please answer them separately (that is, not in one big combined essay) and please number them as they are numbered in the assignment guideline. This helps us to understand and fairly evaluate how you are addressing each specific question. Please do not use any direct quotations. They do not show understanding and they just fill space in your paper with someone else's words rather than your own. We want to know what you have to say! Your grade is determined by how well you show that you understood and thought about the assignment, which can only be communicated by your own words. Please double-space your paper. The page length guideline assumes double spaced type in a common professional 12-point typeface (Times New Roman, Cambria, Helvetica, Calibri, Arial, or similar; no whimsical typefaces) with 1-inch margins all around and no extra spacing between paragraphs. Note: Some of the readings were scanned sideways to make them fit. In Adobe Acrobat Reader (which you can get here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/), right-click on the text in the pdf file and choose "rotate clockwise" to see it in the proper orientation. Various other software can display pdf files, but may have a different way (or no way) to rotate the view.
