Explain behavioural rating used in assessment of personality.
Behavioural rating refers to the degree of agreement or disagreement of the rater on a particular issue on three or five point scale.
Limitations of Behavioural Rating:
(i) Raters display a bias that influences their judgments of different traits.
Example: The single favourable or unfavourable trait forms the basis of a rater's overall judgment of a person. This process is called the Halo Effect.
(ii) Raters have a tendency to put individuals in the middle of the scale, i.e., Middle Category Bias or in the extreme position, i.e., Extreme category bias.
The limitations can be overcome by either
What is the meaning of assessment? Describe the key features of any two methods used for psychological assessment.
Discuss how the interplay of nature and nurture influences intelligence. Distinguish between culture-fair and culture-based tests.