Alabama Social Studies SS24.P.14a
The Standard
- SS24.P.14
- Explain the role of personality development in human behavior and differentiate among theories that seek to explain this development.
Describe different measures of personality, including the Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and projective tests.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Clinical Psychology
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare how the NEO-PI, MMPI, and projective tests gather information. They identify which measures personality traits, which looks for clinical patterns, and which uses responses to ambiguous material.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can match a sample prompt to each type of measure and explain what it aims to learn. They can name the five traits measured by the NEO-PI: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. They know an MMPI score is not a diagnosis on its own.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the NEO-PI measures only the three traits in its name. They may assume an inkblot response has one fixed meaning or that an MMPI result can diagnose someone by itself.
How to Assess It
- Show three fictional prompts: a trait rating, a true-false symptom item, and an ambiguous picture. Ask students to match each to a measure and state one limit of interpreting the picture.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three fictional cards, a trait rating prompt, a symptom true-false prompt, and an ambiguous picture, to sort by measure.
Ask students to write whether two clinicians might read the same fictional inkblot response differently, and why.
Play a matching game with cards naming each measure, its format, and what it aims to learn.
Give students a fictional counseling referral and ask which measure could describe traits, which could assess clinical patterns, and why neither gives a diagnosis alone.
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