This summary brought up two interesting issues, oversimplification and not taking into account people's
emotions and drives.

Another issue is the influence of external events on our behaviour, behaviours often not reflecting our underlying attitudes. We looked at this closely in the last few chapters. Keep these htree issues in mind as you consider some of the comments in this summary.


In our discussion the major conclusion is that personality is very complex. The questionaire
taken is psychometrically designed; there fore a general data collection technique. Two group
members felt it was too general. It was compared to a magazine quiz where you have three choices/ ten questions and the result tells you whether you are compatible with your mate. Not a valid way to choose your mate, or make any decision for that matter.
Another problem the group had was with the strictness of the categories. It oversimplifies the complexness of an individual. Montressor stated that this approach underempasizes emotions and the drives of individuals. And in Jene's personal example she stated that her boyfriend wanted to know how to interact with her better. The text discusses three categories clinical, labratory, and psychometric. As already stated psychometric is a general collection of personal data. Labroratory is the reaction of individuals in a experiment. The clinical approach is where you form a hypothesis from information already collected(case studies). Montressor felt that the text was somewhat contradictory. It discussed how all individuals use self-monitoring to analyze their behavior, but it also states that an individuals' personality is stable.
In conclusion I think we can agree that their is a lot we don't know about personality and that questionnaire like this may give us some interesting outlooks; but we have to be very careful about how we interpret them and what we use this data for.