Personality Assessment and Behavioral Assessment Flashcards
What are advantages of the Personality Assessment Inventory?
Offered at 4th grade level
The clinical scale names are more current
Has very little overlap between scales
Overpathologizing
If you are not culturally competent then run the risk of over pathologizing patients or viewing normal as abnormal
Objective Personality Test
Contain unambiguous test items and can be objectively scored. The MMPI-2-RF and the PAI
Who are the authors of the MMPI scale?
Hathaway and McKinley
What kind of scales does the MMPI have?
Full clinical scales meaning the higher a client scored on a particular scale, the greater likelihood they had demonstrated that form of psychopathology.
Ex.)
Psychopathic Deviate today is antisocial personality disorder
Psychasthenia today is anxiety disorder
Test-taking attitudes
A feature of the MMPI-2 and the PAI which measures a patient’s possible insincere efforts (like lying, defensiveness, and infrequency) that factors into the validity scales of the instrument itself
___________ MCMI-3 is like the MMPI but more noted for its testing of personality disorders versus pathologies. Great validity for personality disorders
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory 3
The ___________ (Neo-PI-R) measures normal personality traits from the five-factor model.
NEO- Personality Inventory Revised
_________ is a brief single characteristic personality test. Especial for finding signs of depression
Beck Depression Inventory-2
_______ is a projective personality test with 10 Inkblots to analyze.
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Some weaknesses of projective personality assessments?
The unique scoring and interpretation relying too much on the psychologist’s judgment lowers validity and reliability
___________ is a projective personality test where the patient creates a story from the scenes presented on a card each featuring ambiguous stimulus
Thematic Apperception Test
Behavioral assessment
Challenges other personality test by assuming a behavior a client demonstrates is a sample of the problem itself NOT a deep-seated personality problem
The direct, systematic observation of a client’s behavior in their natural environment. Sample behavior to create a baseline of normal behavior for the patient to find an increase or decrease of pathology
Naturalistic Observation or Behavioral Assessment
____________ targeted tests with empirical support of validity and reliability that does contain good normative data
Evidence-Based Assessment
