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Psychological Tests Flashcards

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Describe the experiment by Karpicke & Roediger (2008) on learning Swahili (methods results conclusions)

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Methods: 4 learning conditions

  1. ST study and test
  2. SnT drop correct items continue to test
  3. STn study no test
  4. SnTn drop correct items no test

Tested at 4 immediate intervals and at 1 week retention

Results: all performed well immediately but conditions where there was frequent testing and studying performed much better for retention

Conclusions: this is evidence that studying and testing improves retrieval and retention of information

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If you need to find a psychological test to measure something what would you do?

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  1. Mental measurements yearbook
  2. ETS test collection

Both have comprehensive lists of tests

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Books about individual tests
Text books on psychological testing
Academic testing
Publishers catalogues

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What is the 16PF test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire

Measures personality (non clinical)

For Adults

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What is the CBCL test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Child Behaviour Checklist

Measures problem behaviour

For children

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What is the D-KEFS test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System

Measures executive function

For all

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What is the EPI test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Eysenck’s Personality Inventory

Measures Personality (non clinical)

For all (adult and junior versions)

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What is the Hayling and Brixton test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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The Hayling and Brixton Clinical Assessment of Executive Functioning

Measures executive functioning

For adults

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What is the MMPI test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Measures Personality (clinical)

For adults only (adolescent version MMPI-A)

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What is the Neale test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Neale Analysis of Reading

Measures reading

For all (mainly children)

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What is the NEO test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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NEO-PI-3 (covers the big 5)

Measures Personality (non clinical)

For adults

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What is the Peabody test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)

Measures vocabulary

For all (mainly children)

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What is the RPM test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Raven’s Progressive Matrices

Measures intelligence

For all

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What is the Stanford-Binet test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Stanford-Binet intelligence Scales

Measures intelligence

For all

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What is the TEA test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Test for Everyday Attention

Measures attention

For adults

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What is the TEA-CH test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Test of everyday attention for children

Measures attention

For children

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What is the WAIS test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Wechsler Adult intelligence Scale

Measures intelligence

For adults

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What is the WASI test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Wechsler Abbreviates Scale of Intelligence

Measures intelligence

For all

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What is the WIAT test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Wechsler Individual Achievement Test

Measures Academic achievement

For all

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What is the WISC test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

Measures intelligence

For primary to high school

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What is the WPPSI test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence

Measures Intelligence

For pre to primary school

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What is the WRAML test?
What does it measure?
What is its main target population?

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Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning

Measures memory and attention

For all

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Which tests can only be used by adults?

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  • 16PF - (Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors Questionnaire)
  • Hayling and Brixton tests (Hayling and Brixton Clinical Assessment of Executive Functioning
  • MMPI - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • NEO - NEO-PI-3 (big 5 Personality)
  • TEA - Test of Everyday Attention
  • WAIS - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Which tests are mainly used by children?

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  • CBCL - Child Behaviour Checklist
  • Neale - Neale Analysis of Reading
  • Peabody - Peabody Picture Vocabulary
  • TEA-CH - Test of Everyday Attention for Children
  • WISC - Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
  • WPPSI - Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
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Which tests can be used for both children and adults?

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  • D-KEFS - Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System
  • EPI - Eysenck’s Personality Inventory
  • Neale - Neale Analysis of Reading
  • Peabody - Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
  • RPM - Raven’s Progressive Matrices
  • Stanford-Binet - Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
  • WASI - Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
  • WIAT - Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
  • WRAML - Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning
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Which tests are only appropriate for preschoolers and Primary aged children?

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*WPPSI -Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence

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The 5 groups of tests used in the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale are?

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  1. Fluid intelligence
  2. Crystallised Intelligence
  3. Quantitative reasoning
  4. Visual-Spatial reasoning
  5. Working memory
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Factor analysis of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale suggests that at most ages the Test has 5 factors just as the underlying theory predicts. This represents evidence for?

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Construct validity

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How is the Stanford-Binet administered and scored?

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1 on 1 examination session

Complete 10 core tests to yield 5 factor scores

5 scores combined to give overall Spearmans g (IQ)

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What are the psychometric properties of the Stanford-Binet?
Standardisation
Reliability
Validity?

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Standardised from very young to old
Age, race, region and socioeconomic level

Reliability - very high. Internal consistency .97 and inter eater .9

Validity - criterion/convergent correlates with other IQ tests
Internal structure/construct validity- factor analysis supported 5factor structure

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4 groups of tests used in the WISC-V (the Wechsler tests)?

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  1. Verbal comprehension
  2. Perceptual Reasoning
  3. Working Memory
  4. Processing Speed
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How are the Wechsler tests WISC administered and scored?

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1 on 1 exam session 45-65 minutes

10 core subtests arranged into 4 groups

  1. Verbal comprehension
  2. Perceptual reasoning
  3. Working Memory
  4. Processing Speed

Combine 4 indexes to measure IQ

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Which test allows the intelligence of people who speak different languages to be compared?

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Raven’s Progressive Matrices RPM

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Is ravens Progressive Matrices required to be performed 1 on 1?

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What is the aim of Ravens Progressive Matrices?

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A non verbal group ability test that research supports as a measure of spearmans g IQ

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Who is Ravens Progressive Matrices designed to be used for?

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Anyone from aged 5 upward

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Why was Ravens Progressive Matrices designed?

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To assess military recruits independent of educational factors

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What are the psychometric properties of Ravens Progressive Matrices?
Standardisation
Reliability
Validity

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Standardised- impressive set of norms worldwide

Reliability- in .9’s
Test retest .7/.8

Validity- correlates with other aptitude tests and to a lesser extent academic ability (lower correlation)

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Which test can be used with people who have significant but not total motor impairment?

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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

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How is the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test administered?

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For people aged between 2 and adults with learning disabilities

Multiple choice test that only requires pointing not reading ability but requires hearing ability

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What are the psychometric properties for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test?
Standardisation
Reliability
Validity

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Standardisation - sample 3540 high

Reliability- in .9’s

Validity- content validity all proper words in dictionary

Empirical validity- scores increase with age as predicted

Convergent validity- correlates well with other Vocabulary Tests

Special populations scored as expected

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How is Neale Analysis of Reading scored?

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Scores based on accuracy and speed

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What does Neale Analysis of Reading measure?

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Oral reading comprehension and fluency of students 6-12 years

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How is Neale Analysis of Reading administered?

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Children read a selection of stories out loud and then complete a comprehension test on the story

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What is the Neale Analysis of Reading scored on?

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  1. Reading accuracy
  2. Reading rate
  3. Comprehension
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How was the 16 PF created?

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Cattell identified 18000 names for Personality traits

A quarter were considered real rather than temporary

Rated just distinguishable differences

reduced to 171 traits and then 36, then 16

Of the 16 basic personality traits, some are inter correlated

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Which test is a comprehensive Personality measure designed for normal populations? (Non clinical)

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What approach was the NEO-PI-3 created using?

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A Lexical approach

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What are the Big 5 Personality traits?

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  1. Neuroticism
  2. Extroversion
  3. Openness to experience
  4. Conscientiousness
  5. Agreeableness
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How is the NEO-PI-3 administered?

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240 items, takes 30-40 minutes

Uses T-scores

Self report and observer rated versions

50
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Which Personality Test is best, 16PF or Neo-Pi-3, why?

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Neo-Pi-3.

16PF can be scored as 5 factors

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According to Eysenck’s Personality theory, what is the underlying basis for individual differences in neuroticism?

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Differences in activation thresholds in the limbic system

52
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The theoretical basis of Eysenck’s Personality theory is at what kind of level?

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Biological

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According to Eysenck’s Personality theory, what is the underlying basis for individual differences in extraversion?

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Differences in cortical arousal

54
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What did Eysenck argue to be a critical component of the mechanism underlying individual differences in extroversion-introversion?

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If someone scores high on the MMPI Scale in psychasthenia, it means they have what?

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They have compulsive-obsessive disorder

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What is a major criticism of the MMPI-2?

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  1. items overlap
  2. Response style- more could be reversed
  3. The scales are related to Demographic variables (gender, race, intelligence, education) implications for interpretation
  4. Clinical samples are not representative
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The MMPI is an example of what?

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A comprehensive Personality Test designed to diagnose abnormal groups (clinical)

58
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What is the most frequently used test by neuropsychologists?

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List 3 purposes the MMPI is used for.

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  1. Differentiating between organic and psychiatric disorders
  2. Detecting Personality changes filling a head injury
  3. Assessing the validity of a patients self report (lie scales)
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How was MMPI created? 4 steps

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  1. Created a large pool of items (logic, reason, literature reviews, expert opinion)
  2. Gave preliminary questionnaire to groups of psychiatric inpatients and a Control group
  3. Used item discrimination analysis (which items best discriminate between 2 groups?)
  4. Standardised the test using a Control group
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What is the process of item discrimination index?

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Using the item discrimination index for validity

Create 4 true/false questions and give them to group with disorder and group without.

Work out:
d- item discrimination index

U - the number of people in the Upper group who rated item true

nU- total number in the upper group

L - number in the Lower group who rated the item true

nL - total number in lower group

d=(U\nU)-(L\nU)

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How do you select which questions to include with Empirical Criterion Keying?

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Do the item discrimination indexes and select the questions that have the greatest discrimination ie. above .50 and discard questions less than .50.

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Can you used random questions that appear to have no face validity in Empirical Criterion Keying?

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Yes, if they discriminate between groups

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How is the MMPI administered?

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Raw scores converted to T scores
Mean 50, SD 10

True/false questions

10 Clinical Scales

  1. Hypochondriasis
  2. Depression
  3. Hysteria
  4. Psychopathic deviate
  5. Masculinity/femininity
  6. Paranoia
  7. Psychasthenia OCD
  8. Schizophrenia
  9. Hypomania (manic depressive)
  10. Social introversion
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What are the psychometric properties of the MMPI?

Reliability
Construct validity
Criterion validity

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Reliability- test retest & internal consistency .58 - .92

Construct validity- > 10,000 studies have mapped specific MMPI profiles onto specific behaviours (alcoholism, eating disorders)

Criterion validity- scores for non clinical sample mapped onto ratings by their spouses. And clinical patient scores mapped onto ratings by professionals treating them

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List 4 weaknesses of MMPI

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  1. Item overlap (many items appear on more than 1 Scale- causes high artificial correlations between different scales)
  2. Response style (more willing to always select true- needs more reversed items)
  3. Many demographic variables correlate with MMPI scales (age, gender, race, status)
  4. Clinical samples are not nationally representative
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List 7 validity measures or lie scales used in the MMPI

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  1. ? Cannot say- a count of missing responses
  2. L (lie) scale - negative statements that apply to most people (eg I don’t always tell the truth)
  3. F (infrequency) Scale- eccentric statements with low endorsement rates (eg laws should be thrown away)
  4. K (correction) Scale- willing to admit deviance/defensiveness (eg I feel useless) subtle version of L Scale
  5. TRIN (true response inconsistencies) - Number of true responses to items of opposite content
  6. VRIN - (variable response inconsistency) - measure of response consistency across items
  7. FB (Back F) - are later responses similar to earlier responses?
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Do MMPI lie scales work to detect fakers? How is this known?

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Yes

People without mental disorders were asked to fill in the MMPI as if they had a mental disorder and lie scales detected them successfully

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