Test Yourself. What’s Your Personality Like? Ever wonder what your personality is like?
Psychologists have long wondered that too. For decades now have offered a bewildering array of theories, research, and tests that purport to measure this thing we call “personality.” Enter “the Big Five” personality dimensions. Rather than present personality from a particular psychological theoretical perspective, the Big Five personality traits were derived from how people use everyday words to describe themselves and others. And now we have a simple 50-question personality test you can use here on Psych Central to determine your rating along these 5 traits. The “Big” in the Big Five refer to the broadness of the traits this test measures. What are the five traits and what do they measure broadly?
The history of the Big Five is interesting, in that it’s derived from Raymond Cattell’s ground-breaking research into personality traits. Ah well. Back to the Big Five… How did we get to just five global personality traits? References: A Quick Measure of Achievement Motivation. Australian Psychologist, Vol. 14 No. 3, November, 1979, 337-344.
A Quick Measure of Achievement Motivation - Validated in Australia and Reliable in Britain and South Africa J.J. Ray, University of New South Wales ABSTRACTA 14 item short form of the Ray Achievement Motivation scale was developed. When tested on seven samples from Sydney, London, Glasgow and Johannesburg it showed reliabilities of over .70 when applied to English speakers. There seems to be considerable demand for a short self-report index of achievement motivation, suitable for use in survey research. The present paper reports, then, the development of a short form of the Ray (1970, 1974, 1975) achievement motivation scale. This was an international study drawing on random cluster samples of the populations of London, Sydney and Glasgow.
To enable cross-validation on the other samples, the item analyses were based solely on the London responses. This was a validation study. Table 1 1. Table 2. Subdivided by sex: Distorted Tunes Test [NIDCD] Welcome to the Distorted Tunes Test (DTT).
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Take the test in a quiet room free of distractions and background noise, because you'll need to be able to hear clearly. You must be alone, because having other people in the room could affect your test responses. We recommend that you do not use headphones/earphones/earbuds or high volume. You will hear a number of well-known tunes.
Some will be played correctly, while others will be played incorrectly (with some wrong notes). Here's an example to show you what to expect. If you think the tune was played correctly, click the button labeled "Yes" for the question. Play example tune Now you're ready to begin the test. Tune 1 Tune 2 Tune 3 Tune 4 Tune 5 Tune 6 Tune 7 Tune 8 Tune 9 Tune 10 Tune 11 Tune 12. Food tests: Ice cream. Discovery Health "Health Guides"