Personality & Intelligence PSY5008 For this assignment, you must produce either a 2250-word written essay or a 10- minute narrated presentation, based on how personality or intelligence literature could
Personality & Intelligence PSY5008
For this assignment, you must produce either a 2250-word written essay or a 10- minute narrated presentation, based on how personality or intelligence literature could be used to help meet an organisation’s recruitment needs. In your chosen format, you must evaluate core theories of personality or intelligence, recommend a suitable psychometric test of personality or intelligence, critically evaluate scientific evidence, and consider ethical issues in the context of recruitment, remaining relevant to the recruitment scenario below.
Assignment instructions:
An organisation is looking to employ carers who have the ideal personality or intelligence required to support elderly individuals.
In your assignment, you must critically examine two theories that would help the organisation understand what the ideal personality OR intelligence would be for the role they are recruiting.
You must also recommend one personality OR intelligence psychometric test that can help the organisation hire suitable candidates.
Scientific evidence must be critically explored to help you justify your psychometric test recommendation. Ethical considerations must be discussed to ensure your psychometric recommendation can be implemented appropriately. Arguments should be supported by citations from robust academic sources.
For this assignment, you must choose one focus area from the list below:
• Option 1 – Personality (focusing on the ideal personality of a ‘carer’)
• Option 2 – Intelligence (focusing on the ideal intelligence of a ‘carer’)
Introduction (approx. 175 words or 50 seconds)
• Briefly outline the personality OR intelligence characteristics that would be ideal for the role and why they`d be particularly helpful in this context
• Briefly outline the aims of the assessment, mentioning the two theories that will be discussed and the psychometric test that will be recommended.
Personality OR Intelligence Theories (approx. 700 words or 3 minutes and 5 seconds)
• Briefly outline what this section will cover
• Introduce and critically evaluate two theories of personality OR intelligence
• Explain how each theory links to the organisation’s needs and to the psychometric test you will recommend.
Psychometric Test Recommendation (approx. 700 words or 3 minutes and 5 seconds)
• Recommend
1 psychometric test that could help measure the ideal personality OR intelligence according to the organisation’s needs
• Describe and evaluate your chosen test, including a discussion of its reliability and validity as well as ethical considerations specific to that test
• Explain why this test has been chosen, using scientific evidence
• Evaluate the scientific studies presented and explain how methodological strengths/weaknesses may inform the usefulness of the test.
Application of Psychometrics to the scenario (approx. 500 words or 2 minutes and 10 seconds)
Explain how the organisation could use the psychometric test recommended as part of their recruitment process
• Outline how different test results would be interpreted and any decisions which could be made based on these results
Discuss ethical issues that should be considered to implement the psychometric test appropriately
• Consider any methodological issues which may emerge from the use of psychometrics in this scenario, and how these could be addressed.
