Personality

Personality Lesson 2 of 2

What were the challenges whilst completing the home learning task from last week?

- What to include? Did you use the syllabus? - How many marks? Structure: Definition, personality tests

(interviews, questionnaire, biometric testing, POMS, pros, cons and then a summary)

Home learning task

These will be discussed at the end of the lesson to review what you have learnt

You’ll be asked key questions during and at the end of the lesson

Outcomes

Difficult (no clear definition) Questionnaires, interview or observation Degree of measurement error Talent identification programmes

Measuring personality

1. EPI Eysenck’s Personality Inventory2. EPQ3. Cattell’s Theory – 16 Personality factors

Personality testing

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Personality testing

Method Advantages Disadvantages

Questionnaires

Interviews

Observation

What, how and why?

Validity, reliability and ethics

1. Profile of mood states (POMS)2. Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) – Not

needed for your syllabus

What is POMS?

POMS

Sceptical approach Credulous approach

Personality and sporting performance

MBTI

Should personality tests be used to screen participants. Some NFL & NHL teams have used this approach. Discuss – argument tennis

Mini review

Imagine that you are taking an exam. If you get a question wrong you will lose a mark. After 20 minutes you’ve answered the questions that you can do. You have 10 questions left, what would you do? Answer the 10 questions and risk losing

marks? Leave the 10 questions and sit safe?

Do you take risks in sport?

Achievement motivation (nAch and Naf)

Describe and explain with practical examples:

Need to achieve (nAch) Need to avoid failure (NaF) Key words: Approach behaviour, avoidance behaviour

self efficacy, learned helplessness, attributions

On no more than 1 side of A4 for each Examination questions

Home learning

Aspects of personality that must be covered in your syllabus definition of personality interactionalist perspective personality as a predictor of performance use of personality testing profile of mood states (POMs) achievement motivation - motives to achieve (nAch) and

avoid failure (Naf), and the characteristics of each incentive value and probability of success development of approach and avoidance behaviour

Prove it review – Topic Olympic test next week

What did you learn today?