Lecture 18 Flashcards
True or False: Malingering refers to deliberately exaggerating psychological symptoms during a clinical assessment.
A. True
B. False
A. True
True or False: The Clinical scales on the MMPI are commonly used to evaluate malingering.
A. True
B. False
B. False
Which of the following statements about personality assessment is TRUE?
A. Reliability, validity, and utility of projective personality assessments exceed that of objective personality assessments
B. Objective personality assessments provide more freedom of response
C. Responses to objective personality assessments are assumed to reflect a person’s unconscious thoughts, urges, memories, etc.
D. Questions on objective personality assessments include a fixed set of potential responses
E. The administration and scoring of objective personality assessments is more complex and expensive than of projective personality assessments.
D. Questions on objective personality assessments include a fixed set of potential responses
Which assessment strategy contains over 300 self-descriptive true/false sentences?
A. Rorschach Inkblot Test
B. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5
C. Minnesota-Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3
D. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV
E. None of the Above
C. Minnesota-Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3
True or False: The Content Scales on the MMPI were developed to identify contemporary clinical psychological phenomena
A. True
B. False
A. True
An extremely high F scale score on the MMPI
A. Indicates a tendency to under-report psychological problems
B. Indicates a tendency to respond randomly
C. Indicates a tendency to over-report psychological problems
D. Indicates a tendency to respond either true or false much more of the time
E. None of the above
C. Indicates a tendency to over-report psychological problems
Using a large sample of largely Caucasian Minnesota farmers as a normative sample for the first version of the MMPI reduced its __________
A. Test-retest reliability
B. interrater reliability
C. Internal consistency
D. External validity
E. Internal validity
D. External validity
The validity scale profile below for the MMPI suggests that the respondent is
A. Under-reporting psychological problems
B. Responding randomly
C. Over-reporting psychological problems
D. Responding either true or false much more of the time
E. None of the above
A. Under-reporting psychological problems
Which of the following statements about the Empirical Approach to the construction of the MMPI is TRUE?
A. This approach was used to develop the second version of MMPI
B. Items were included only if responses discriminated between clinical and control groups
C. This approach has high content validity
D. This is a highly theoretical approach
E. None of the above
B. Items were included only if responses discriminated between clinical and control groups
The second version of the MMPI
A. Used a less externally valid normative sample
B. Developed new items using a Theoretical Approach
C. Showed greater content validity
D. B and C
E. A, B, and C
D. B and C
A T score greater than __________ is of potential interest on the MMPI
A. 30 or 40
B. 40 or 50
C. 50 or 60
D. 60 or 70
E. 70 or 80
E. 70 or 80
Which of the following statements about objective personality assessments is FALSE?
A. Standardization is high
B. Questions can be misinterpreted
C. Responses can be faked
D. Administration and scoring are simple
E. None of the above
E. None of the above
The L scale on the MMPI
A. Measures the tendency to under-report psychological problems
B. Measures the tendency to respond randomly
C. Measures the tendency to over-report psychological problems
D. Measures the tendency to respond either true or false much more of the time
E. None of the Above
A. Measures the tendency to under-report psychological problems
Which of the following statements about projective personality assessments is FALSE?
A. Reliability and validity are generally excellent
B. There is more freedom of response than on objective personality assessments
C. Administration and scoring are complex
D. It is harder to misrepresent yourself that on objective personality assessments
E. None of the above
A. Reliability and validity are generally excellent
According to the study discussed in class, which validity scale(s) best detected faked depression on the MMPI-2?
A. L scale
B. F scale
C. K scale
D. L and F scales
E. L, F, and K scales
B. F scale
Which of the following statements about the MMPI is FALSE?
A. Reliability is high
B. It is possible to detect untruthful responses
C. Predictive validity is low
D. Concurrent validity is high
E. It is very long
C. Predictive validity is low
While the current DSM-5 presentation of personality disorders treats personality pathology as __________, the hybrid model in the appendix attempts to emphasize an additional role for the _________ aspects of personality pathology
A. Categorical; Dimensional
B. Dimensional; Categorical
C. Empirically-driven; Theoretical
D. Complex; Simpler
E. Interchangeable; True
A. Categorical; Dimensional
True or False: Personality disorders tend to come and go, rather than enduring throughout a person’s life
A. True
B. False
B. False
Which of the following statements about personality disorders in DSM-5 (in the main body of the DSM) are TRUE?
A. Disordered personality is represented categorically, rather than dimensionally
B. Personality disordered behavior is typically evident in only one kind of social situation
C. Personality disorders are assumed to onset in childhood, adolescence, or early childhood
D. A and C
E. A, B, and C
D. A and C
Concerns regarding personality disorders in DSM-5 (in the main body of the DSM) include which of the following?
A. There is substantial variability among persons receiving the same personality disorder diagnosis
B. Personality disorders tend to endure across a personal’s life
C. Almost everyone with significant personality psychopathology can be diagnosed with one of the 10 personality disorders.
D. Different measures of the same personality disorder correlate strongly
E. Comorbidity is limited
A. There is substantial validity among persons receiving the same personality disorder diagnosis
True or False: Comorbidity among personality disorders is extensive.
A. True
B. False
A. True
In what ways might some scales on the MMPI-3 provide a kind of “lie-detector” test?
The L and F (or FB) validity scales both detect respondent misrepresentation of difficulties. The L scale detects under-reporting of symptoms (i.e., presentation of oneself in an overly positive or favorable light), and the F (or FB) scale detects over-reporting of symptoms (i.e., exaggeration of symptoms). Thus, if respondents are trying to present themselves erroneously as not having any problems, then we would expect to see elevated L scale scores. If respondents are trying to present themselves erroneously as having many problems, then we would expect to see elevated F (or FB) scale scores.
How do the Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to development of MMPI items differ?
The Theoretical Approach prioritizes content validity by including items that clearly assess the clinical phenomena of interest, whereas the Empirical Approach includes items that discriminate persons who are and are not experiencing the clinical phenomena of interest.
Suppose that you’ve already given a full structured clinical interview to a client (the SCID), but you still are uncertain about his diagnostic picture, because he responded “I don’t know” or “it depends” to a majority of the questions that you asked . How might the MMPI be helpful under these circumstances?
Assuming that the client was willing to answer all the questions, the MMPI might provide an
alternative picture of the clinically significant difficulties facing him. Even though the MMPI doesn’t provide diagnoses, it gives you a good sense of the extent to which someone is struggling with depression, anxiety, paranoia, and bizarre thinking. This could be helpful for case conceptualization and treatment planning.
