Assessment Flashcards
MMPI validity scales
L scale: lie scale, naive attempt to present in an overly favorable light
F scale: fake bad, in frequency, attempt to appear in a negative light
K scale: fake good, guardedness, sophisticated attempt to present in a positive light. Also serves as a moderator.
VRIN & TRIN measure response inconsistency or random responding
Cattel-horn-Carroll Theory of intelligence
Intelligence is on three levels:
1. 70 narrow cognitive abilities
2. 10. Broad cognitive abilities
3. General intelligence or g
Most empirically validated theory of human intelligence, foundation of woodcock Johnson and WISC
Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
Focuses on process of intelligence not product
3 aspects:
- Componential: Internal components (e.g. cognition, memory, analysis, etc)
- Experiential: capacity to adapt to environmental changes creatively
- Practical: ability to apply past experience to novel problems
Spearman’s intelligence Theory
Intelligence is a single factor g
Ipsative scores
Relative strengths and weaknesses for the person only. For example, vocational preference tests
Empirical criterion keying
Choose items to keep on a test based on how they differentiate people based on a criterion, for example. Schizophrenia
Index scores on the WISC-V
Verbal comprehension
* Visual spatial (block design, visual puzzles)
* Fluid reasoning (matrix, figure weights)
Working memory
Processing speed
- Different from the WAIS
MCMI-IV
Closely aligned with the DSM-5
Normed on a clinical population, tends to exaggerate pathology
Mmpi scales that are measures of overall distress
Scale 2- depression
Scale 7- Psychasthenia
Batteries of cognitive functions
Halstead Reitan
Luria Nebraska
MMPI 10 clinical scales
“How does he put masculine poo poo suppositories hidden so-inside”
- Hypochondriasis: Physical complaints
- Depression
- Hysteria: also physical complaints plus minimizing emotional problems
- Psychopathic deviance
- Masculinity femininity
- Paranoia
- Psychasthenia: fear, anxiety, OCD, self-doubt
- Schizophrenia
- Hypomania
- Social introversion
MMPI 4+9
Suggests acting out behavior (psychopathic, deviance and hypomania)
MMPI 6 + 8
Suggest schizophrenia (paranoia and schizophrenia scales)
MMPI 2 + 9/8
Suggests suicidality (depression. With addition of nine or eight, suggest more likelihood to complete suicide because have hypomania or psychosis)
MMPI 1 + 3
Suggest somatic problems (hypochondriasis and hysteria)
Cattell’s theory of intelligence
One G Factor with two subtypes: Fluid and crystallized intelligence
Exner’s Rorschach comprehensive system scoring domains
- content: what category response belongs to
- location: how much of the blot the person interprets?
- form Quality: accuracy of response related to actual blot shape
- developmental quality: integration
Guilford intelligence theory
Using factor analysis, identified 120 elements that comprise intelligence
Convergent thinking: ability to group or analyze ideas into a unified concept or solution
Divergent thinking: ability to generate creative new ideas
Galton intelligence Theory
Intelligence is an inherited trait distributed normally across the population
Thurstone intelligence theory
Using factor analysis, identified primary mental abilities, everyone possesses varying degrees of these sub components of intelligence
