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The Construct of Sanity as it Applies to Personality Assessment

The Construct of Sanity as it Applies to Personality Assessment. Tyler Boyd Section 3 PSYC 50. Asylums: What are they?. Historically, they were places for insane people. Asylums: What are they?. Historically, they were places for people with mental illnesses.

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The Construct of Sanity as it Applies to Personality Assessment

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  1. The Construct of Sanity as it Applies to Personality Assessment Tyler Boyd Section 3 PSYC 50

  2. Asylums: What are they? • Historically, they were places for insane people.

  3. Asylums: What are they? • Historically, they were places for people with mental illnesses. • These days, we try a lot harder to treat sufferers using science.

  4. Asylums: What are they? • Historically, they were places for people with mental illnesses. • These days, we try a lot harder to treat sufferers using science. • Unless the people get violent. Then they go to prison.

  5. Asylums: What are they? • Historically, they were places for people with mental illnesses. • These days, we try a lot harder to treat sufferers using science. • Unless the people get violent. Then they go to prison. • And you’re still expected to get a job even if you have a mental illness.

  6. How To Build Your Own Asylum (Tm) • 1. Find or build a house on the beach (a modest single level one will do) • 2. Remove the wall facing the sea • 3. Remove the roof • 4. Put a new 'roof' on which, instead of covering the house, it slants outward (i.e. it's like a funnel of square three sided sorts) • 5. Now strip down the walls to their bare drywall or wood or etc • 6. Put some nice siding on the inside walls (a pale slate grey will do nicely) p.s. I wouldn't suggest brick, it's hard to keep clean • 7. Put up some tacky wallpaper (say yellow and orange flowers with diagonal red stripes) on the outside of the walls • 8. Maybe put up some nice soothing pictures on the outside of the walls ( just to keep the inmates calm and happy) • 9. Rip the carpeting off the floor boards (you won't be needing it anymore) in fact, get rid of the floor boards altogether so you are now standing on the sand between three nicely sided walls and the sea • 10. Grow some nice green grass where the floor used to be (you may need topsoil or maybe just sod it) • 11. Put up a few square metres of decking (optional) • 12. Get a nice lawn/deck chair and sit in it on your lawn/deck facing the sea • 13. Get up and shut the door if you haven't already done so (you don't want any of the inmates getting out) • You should now be sitting facing the sea between three nicely sided walls while all the inmates are shut inside the asylum content to use their packets of toothpicks or look at the soothing pictures you put up on the wall for them. You are now outside the asylum • p.s. Do not lock the door, as you will need one of the inmates to bring you food once in a while. • -hope this helpedDNA

  7. Structure of the IPIP-NEO • “I sometimes have wild ideas.” (O) • “I put little time and effort into my work.” (C) • “I prefer to be alone.” (E) • “I feel that I’m unable to deal with things.” (N) • “I distrust people.” (A)

  8. The Five Factors • Conscientiousness • Neuroticism • Extroversion • Openness • Agreeableness These factors are basically independent of one another.

  9. The Five Factors • Conscientiousness • Neuroticism • Extroversion These three are the ones with highest “fake-ability.”

  10. Why is this?

  11. Why is this? • Most related to job performance?

  12. Why is this? • Most related to job performance? • Most transparent?

  13. Let’s get...... • Each person has their own unique personality, their own skill-set. • Some people just find it extremely difficult to participate in society. • Is this related to their personality?

  14. .....operationalized. • “Personality”: an aggregate of five values which can be rated independently. • “Sanity”: a single value which can be placed on an ordinate scale. • Does “sanity” vary along with “personality?”

  15. My experiment • I will be presenting the IPIP-NEO to people with three different instructions: • Honest condition (Control) • “fake good” condition (Experimental 1) • Mental hospital condition (Experimental 2)

  16. My experiment • The length is approx. 20 minutes. • Between-subjects design • Materials: computers. http://www.personalitytest.net/ipip/ipipneo1.htm

  17. My experiment • Hypothesis 1: Distributions will vary between honest condition and fake-good condition • Replication of Furnham, 1997. • Hypothesis 2: Distributions will vary between honest condition and mental hospital condition.

  18. My experiment • Independent variable: Set of instructions, the “frame”. • Dependent variable: Global distribution of scores in the sample for a certain condition.

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