The Investigation of Cognitive Models for Inventory Response

Bibliographic Data

ID19290331
AuthorsNorman Cliff, Paul A Bradley (0000-0001-6229-6677), Paul Bradley, Roger A Girard, ROGER GIRARD
Year1973
Volume8
Issue4
Pages407-425
Publication date1973-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMultivariate Behavioral Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-3171 • E-ISSN: 1532-7906
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327906mbr0804_1
PMID26800053
OpenAlexW1993151148
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited13

This research centers around a family of models designed to describe individuals' responses to personality inventory responses. The models are all alternative ways of relating the individual's degree of endorsement of the items to their locations on dimensions of semantic meaning as he perceives them. In the present study, the relationships among individuals' responses to adjective check list items and multidimensional scaling analyses of similarity judgments of the same items were studied. For each individual, a multiple correlation was computed between his endorsement of the items and their locations on dimensions. The median R, corrected for the number of predictors, was .81 in the case of "candid" endorsements and .92 for endorsements under a faking set. These correlations are comparable to the consistencies in endorsement across repetitions of the same items. Implications for a personality measurement theory are discussed

Adjective · Adjective check list · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Correlation · Meaning (existential) · Multidimensional scaling · Natural language processing · Noun · Personality · Set (abstract data type) · Similarity (geometry) · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive and psychological constructs research · Computer Science · Mathematics · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing · Social Psychology

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