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Describe how Psychologists have attempted to measure personality
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Sports Psychology- Personality Section A a) Describe how Psychologists have attempted to measure personality (6) Recently, since the beginning of the 20^th century, more reasonable and scientific ways of measuring an individual's personality have been proposed as opposed to those put forward back in 400 BC by Hippocrates, who attempted to measure differences between the psychological characteristics of individuals by defining four basic temperament types of each of which could be accounted for by a predominant body fluid, for example. An example of a more modern method includes the psychodynamic, approach, which uses projective tests as a way of measuring an individual's personality. It is a way of trying to reveal what the individual's unconscious desires are since human behaviour, according to the psychodynamic theory, is considered to be driven by unconscious processes. Therefore psychoanalysts are unable to assess the individual's personality directly and thus use indirect methods, trying...
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