Chapter 10 Personality Assignment

Question 1

Characteristic of an objective personality assessment

Answer 1

Unambiguous test items
Offers clients a limited range of responses
Objectively scored

Question 2

Projective personality assessment

Answer 2

Less structured (open ended)
Greater degree of judgement in scoring and interpretation

Question 3

MMPI

Answer 3

Most popular and psychometrically sound personality assessment
550 self-descriptive sentences
Mark true or false

Question 4

Empirical criterion keying

Answer 4

Identifying distinct groups of people, asking them all to respond to the same test items, and comparing responses between groups to select items that yield different patterns of responses between groups

Question 5

The original MMPI

Answer 5

Emphasis on constructing an empirical measure

Question 6

Empirically means…

Answer 6

The use of systematic observation rather than theory or pure judgement

Question 7

How was the MMPI developed

Answer 7

Developers evaluated items using individuals who has been diagnosed with particular mental disorders and a group with no diagnosis
Items divided into 1- specfic pathologies (clinical scales)

Question 8

Validity scales

Answer 8

Provide information about how the client approached the test and allows psychologist to determine if the test is valid

Question 9

MMPI-2

Answer 9

Addresses several weaknesses of original
Normative data was obtained from a larger, more diverse group
Some tests were removed or revised

Question 10

MMPI-A

Answer 10

Adolescent Inventory
Ages 14-18
Similar in administration, scoring, and interpretation to the MMPI-2

Question 11

MMPI-2 Restructured form (RF)

Answer 11

Shorter version of MMPI-2 only 338 not 550
Restructured clinical scales
Omission of masculine-feminine scale and social introversion scale

Question 12

MMPI-3

Answer 12

Recently released (2020)
335-item self-repot measure

Question 13

Current uses of the MMPI

Answer 13

Making diagnoses, determine place ment
Exploring treatment options
Used in numerous speciality areas of psychology

Question 14

Criticisms of the MMPI

Answer 14

Too lengthy and time consuming
Requires read in ability and prolonged attention
Focuses on form of psychopathology as the factors that make up personality

Question 15

Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

Answer 15

Stronger emphasis on personally disorders
195 t/f items
Includes modifier indices

Question 16

Projective methods

Answer 16

Performance-based personality tests
Based on assumption that people will project their personalities id presented with instructed stimuli
To avoid contaminating an individuals responses

Question 17

Criticisms of projective methods

Answer 17

Lack of objectivity in scoring and interpreting

Question 18

Pros of projective methods

Answer 18

Are not fake able
Only way to gather information about unconscious desires and motivations

Question 19

Rorschach ink blot method

Answer 19

10 inblots
2 phases - response or free association phase and inquiry phase
No scoring method

Question 20

Comprehensive system

Answer 20

Ink blot scoring system
Normative data
Location, determinants, form quality, popular, content

Question 21

Thematic apperception test (TAT)

Answer 21

Presenting the client with a series of cards, each with an ambiguous picture
Client must create a story to go with the scene

Question 22

Sentence completion tests

Answer 22

Ambiguous stimuli are the beginnings of sentences
Assuming clients personality is revealed by the endings they add

Question 23

Ritter incomplete sentences blank (RISB)

Answer 23

Most used sentence completion test
40 written sentences
Formal scoring system, not regulate used by clinicians