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Unit 32 : Measurement of Attitude, Aptitude, Personality and Intelligence

(ii) Extrovert Notes
(iii) Ambivert
• Classification on the Basis of Adjustment
(i) Well-Adjusted
(ii) Maladjusted
• General introduction to these methods has already been given in under measurement tools.
• Subjective Methods of the Measurement of Personality
Subjective methods of measurement of personality are those methods whose measurement
results are influenced by the views, likes and dislikes and personal norms of the measurer. The
following are such methods :
(i) Observation Method : Under this method, the measurer observes the behaviour to the subject
and finds out the personality traits present in him.
(ii) Interview Method : Under this method, the measurer and subject are before each other, the
measurer asks personality related questions and the subject answers them.
(iii) Questionnaire Method : It is also called Inventory Method. It is the formal and written form
of interview method. Under this method, questions are formed on various aspects of a person’s
personality.
• Closed Questionnaire : These are those questionnaires in which the subjects have answer the
questions from within restictions; such as yes or no type questions. An example of such question
is:
• Open Questionnaires : These are those questionnaires in which the subjects have the liberty to
answer the questions in their own way.
• Pictorial Questionnaires : In these questionnaires, the questions are presented in the form of
pictures or figures, and the subjects have to answer by ticking at the suitable picture or figure.
• Mixed Questionnaire : These questionnaires include questions of two or all three types of
questions.
• Case History Method : It is also called Life History Method.
• Autobiography Method : Autobiographical method has the following two forms :
(i) Structured Biography
(ii) Unstructured Biography
• Objective Methods of the Measurement of Personality
• Controlled Observation Method : Under this method, a person’s personality is measured under
controlled conditions by observing his intellectual tasks, emotional development, interests,
attitudes and habits.
• Rating Scale Mathod : This method is also called Determinant Scale Method or Order
Determinant Method. Though this method was first used by Facner, a psycho-physicist, yet
the first publication of such a method was done by Galton in 1889 At present, this method is
used the most.
(i) Check List
(ii) Numerical Scale
(iii) Graphic Scale
(iv) Ordering Scale
(v) Forced Choice Scale

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