chapter 10: personality testing Flashcards
what are the 3 themes of personality testing
- Multimethod assessment
- evidence-based assessment
- culturally competent assessment
objective personality assessment
-from psychologist you should get the same response
-typically self report questionnaires
Minnesota multiphase personality inventory
- objective test
- most popular and most psychometrically sounds
- basic description
- 568 questions and you selected true or false
- typically paper and pen but now computer
original mmpi
published in 1942
the authors are Hathaway and McKinley
empirical criterion keying
revised mmpi2
updated the norms
-approved the wording of some items
- in 2008 the mmpi-2-rf
validity scales
-measures test taking attitudes
-minimize what people don’t want interviewers to see
clinical scales
measures psychological symptoms in different areas
measures different psychological things in different scales
strengths of personality testing
the established psychometric properties
comhrenesive
limitations of mmpi
length of test
reading level requirments
psychological concerns
emphasized on pathology
millón clinical multiracial inventory
similar to the mmpi - comprehensive
main difference is the specific focus on personality disorders
neo-personaliilty inventory
normal personalility traits
measures the big five personality
describes their personality
California psychological inventory
focuses on positive attributes of personalility
allows to assess someones’ strength
projective test
unstructured ambiguous stimuli in unlimited ways
2. they have a unrestricted way to respond
3. their personality will reveal itself
4. you can’t hid your personality
Rorschach inkblot method
created in 1921 by Herman roescharh
10 inkblots/five are black and white and five are in color
administration
- response phase
- inquiry phase
scoring system is comphersenive system
the reliability and validity are highly debatable
thematic apperception test.
published in 1943
may measure interpersonal tendencies
