Measuring Personality: Crash Course Psychology #22

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How would you measure a personality? What, exactly, is the self? Well, as you’ve come to expect, it’s not that easy to nail down an answer to those questions. Whether you’re into blood, bile, earth, wind, fire, or those Buzzfeed questionnaires, there are LOTS of ways to get at who we are and why.

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Chapters:
Introduction: Personality Types 00:00
Trait Theory of Personality 1:35
The Big 5: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, & Extraversion 3:15
Social Cognitive Perspective of Personality 4:46
Internal vs. External Locus of Control 5:54
Testing & Measuring Personality 6:15
Thematic Apperception Test 6:51
Personality Trait Inventories 7:31
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 8:05
Social Cognitive Personality Assessments 8:24
Humanistic Self-Concept Evaluations 9:01
Who or what is the self? 9:22
Review & Credits 10:17

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48 Comments

  1. No need anymore to ask people around me to take a personality test. By now I have an inbuilt supersensitive THERMOMETER: when the reading goes over a threshold, I am sure enough the person in front of me is made of a TOXIC substance.
    Funny thing is that all this sort of psychological tests developed over the years can be fooled. So, I also learned how to put my thermometer threshold UP or DOWN as I see it fits.
    And at times I feel like an IMPISH child pushing levers inside Mazinger Z.

  2. Wow, hyper intelligent fast talking kinda nerdy looking person spitting all various kinds of wisdoms in an extremely fluent and flawless ways supported by animated graphics showing a sneakpeak of a mystique shape shifting superhero at 5.04 makes me wonder why i don't watch this like 24/7

  3. Ive always felt that predicting or identifying personality is kinda weird cause the desire of who you would like to be or identify to be is muddled up in there, like is someone notices your an introvert ad you desire to be more sociable, you would appear more sociable to the next person you meet by fulfilling that desire. (With a bit of practice, and thank goodness for the internet)

  4. Swinburne uni uses your videos all the time. I feel they should just close there uni down and crash course should just take over

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