Quiz 5 Flashcards
What is Principle 1?
Performance-Based Test:
Have to develop satisfactory interpretations of complex visual stimuli that provide multiple competing, contradictory, and incomplete response options while being evaluated.
The best inferences link mental, verbal, and perceptual behaviors seen in the microcosm of the task to parallel behaviors in everyday life.
What is Principle 2
Nature of Rorschach Data:
Rorschach behaviors show how people filter and organize
information, how they apply meaning to stimuli and situations, how
conventionally they perceive, how logically they think and
communicate, and how they handle inconsistencies, contradictions,
and ambiguity
Rorschach data contains information that may or may not be present
in self-report or verbal self-concept
What is Principle 3
Empirical Foundation:
Each interpreted variable has a foundation based on two types of empirical support:
- Demonstrated nomothetic validity in research
-Response process/behavioral representation
What is Principle 4
Person-Focused Interpretation:
Focus on the person being assessed.
Their goals and implicit referral questions.
Focus on THIS person with THESE particular characteristics in THIS context and with THESE questions
What is principle 5
Test-Focused Interpretation:
-Focus on all noteworthy aspects of the test data.
- Attend to deviation of summary scores from norms (More deviant is more noteworthy/ normal range scores can be equally important).
-Regardless of relevance to referral Qs
What is principle 6
Synergy of
the Interpretive Approaches
- The interpretive approaches are complimentary (together, they maximize the interpretive yield)
- Test-focus ensures maximal understanding of the person from the available data
-Person-focus ensures maximal attention to the most important referral information
What is principle 7
General
to Specific Progression
- Interpretation proceeds from the general and global to the specific and particular
- At the outset, emphasize summary scores that incorporate multiple response features or that occur with reasonable frequency.
What is principle 8
Relationship
of Nomothetic & Idiographic
- Nomothetic/statistical data use summary scores of coded behavior to know how the person is similar to and different from known reference groups.
- Idiographic/ personal information allows one to know the person based on the very personal images and themes they bring to the task.
What is principle 9
Interpretive
Domains and Format
There are five interrelated domains:
1) Administration and behaviors and observations (behaviors related to R and card turning; setting the stage)
2) Engagement and cognitive processing (Data on problem solving, coping styles, ways of adapting)
3) Perception and thinking problems (Reflects perceptual distortions and thought disorders that are hallmarks of psychosis
4) Stress and distress (Scores related to emotional discomfort and disarray/ terminology is tricky; scores do not imply self-attributed states)
5) Self and other representation (Object relations and schema of self and others with implications for interpersonal competency and relationships)
What is principle 10
Strength-Based Interpretation:
As a performance task, there is no reason to favor negative or pathological inferences more than positive or healthy ones
(historical roots in clinical settings led to bias to interpret Rorschach scores negatively)
What are the 4 S’s?
-Scan (Quickly scan profiles for high or low scores)
-Sift (sift through the interpretive possibilities for each variable/ refining the meaning of the specific score)
-Synthesize (Linking information and inferences across scores)
-Summarize (formulate final answers to referral questions/ clarify uncertainties and contradictions and challenge inferences a final time)
This process builds a nomothetic backbone to structure key findings and then modifies these interpretations based on idiographic
What is complexity
Derived from the sophistication of Location, Space, and Object qualities; and the density of determinants and contents
What Happens when Complexity is High?
High is not necessarily healthy, and low is not necessarily unhelathy.
When High: attend to absences and what is not elevated
What happens when complexity is low
attend to codes present and what is elevated
What is Low range Complexity?
<85
What is high range Complexity?
> 115
What is sifting?
Refining the meaning of this specific score.
The most demanding step and requires skill, training, and disciplined reasoning
What is Sytheszing
Linking information and inferences across scores
What are some variables to understand about complexity
- Consider intrinsic qualities and also reactions to the assessment context.
-Is it as expected given other info
What are the two summary profiles
1) Decent Research and behavioral support
2) More tentative support in one area
