Question

What do you mean by behat ratings. Explain behavioural ratings used in assessment of personality.

Answer 1

Behavioural ratings are frequently used for assessment of personality in educational and industrial settings. Behavioural ratings are generally taken from people who know the assessee over a period of time.

The method of rating suffers from the following major limitations: 

A) Raters often display certain biases that colour their judgements of different traits. For example, most of us are greatly influenced by single favourable or unfavorable trait. This often forms the basis of a Raters overall judgement of a person. This tendency is known as the halo effect.

B) Raters have a tendency to place individuals either in the middle of scale by avoiding extreme positions, or in the extreme positions by avoiding middle categories on the scale.

Behavioural ratings are frequently used for assessment of personality in educational and industrial settings.