Personality Assessment and Behavioral Assessment Flashcards

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What are advantages of the Personality Assessment Inventory?

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Offered at 4th grade level
The clinical scale names are more current
Has very little overlap between scales

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Overpathologizing

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If you are not culturally competent then run the risk of over pathologizing patients or viewing normal as abnormal

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Objective Personality Test

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Contain unambiguous test items and can be objectively scored. The MMPI-2-RF and the PAI

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Who are the authors of the MMPI scale?

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Hathaway and McKinley

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What kind of scales does the MMPI have?

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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

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Test-taking attitudes

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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

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___________ MCMI-3 is like the MMPI but more noted for its testing of personality disorders versus pathologies. Great validity for personality disorders

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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory 3

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The ___________ (Neo-PI-R) measures normal personality traits from the five-factor model.

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NEO- Personality Inventory Revised

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_________ is a brief single characteristic personality test. Especial for finding signs of depression

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Beck Depression Inventory-2

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_______ is a projective personality test with 10 Inkblots to analyze.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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Some weaknesses of projective personality assessments?

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The unique scoring and interpretation relying too much on the psychologist’s judgment lowers validity and reliability

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___________ is a projective personality test where the patient creates a story from the scenes presented on a card each featuring ambiguous stimulus

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Thematic Apperception Test

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Behavioral assessment

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Challenges other personality test by assuming a behavior a client demonstrates is a sample of the problem itself NOT a deep-seated personality problem

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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

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Naturalistic Observation or Behavioral Assessment

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____________ targeted tests with empirical support of validity and reliability that does contain good normative data

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Evidence-Based Assessment

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