Test 1: Chapter 2

Question 1

what is personality assessment?

Answer 1

Any systematic attempt to measure. Identify differences in personality

Question 2

What are the goals of Personality assessment?

Answer 2

precision
Communication
Prediction

Question 3

What is the purpose of personality assessment?

Answer 3

clinical, counselling, legal, educational and vocational, corporate, research

Question 4

What is Reliability?

Answer 4

Test-retest reliability- consistency across time
examiner reliability-consistency across raters
reliability coefficient - consistency in assessment

Question 5

what is Validity?

Answer 5

Face validity- look like what it is measuring
content validity- represent all dimensions of target personality
criterion validity- match/meet standards

Question 6

What all is involved in criterion validity?

Answer 6

Correlation- between test score and criterion
predicitve validity- correlation w/ future criterion
concurrent validity- correlation w/ existing tests

Question 7

What is Construct Validity?

Answer 7

constructs like “happiness” or “aggressiveness”

A postulated attribute

Question 8

What is discriminate validity?

Answer 8

target measure is not the same as another measure

Question 9

What is generalizability (external validity)?

Answer 9

extend findings to other settings, measures, behaviours

Question 10

what are the steps in Construct validity?

Answer 10

1) Define Construct
2) Make predictions
3) Test repeadtedly

Question 11

What are the 3 Major personality assessment techniques?

Answer 11

Objective self report
Projective techniques
Behavioural assessment
Psychophysiological techniques

Question 12

How are Objective Self Reports accomplished?

Answer 12

• surveys
• questionnaires
• tests w/forced choice
• single dimension and Multiple dimension tests*

Question 13

when and how is the MMPI’s used?

Answer 13

used for clinical personality inventory and to determine psychiatric disorders, they are T/F questions. certain answers on certain questions point towards a specific trait

Question 14

What are 1-3 of the principle subscales?

Answer 14

1 HS Hypochrondriasis
2 D Depression
3 Hy Hysteria

Question 15

What are Pd, Mf, and Pa of the Principle subscales?

Answer 15

4 Pd Psychopathic deviate
5 Mf Masculinity-Femininity
6 Pa Paranoia

Question 16

What are 7 and 8 on the Principle subscales?

Answer 16

7 Pt Psychasthenia

8 Sc schizophrenia

Question 17

What are Ma and Si on the Principle subscales?

Answer 17

9 Ma Hypomania

0 Si Social Introversion

Question 18

What is on the Supplementary Subscales?

Answer 18

they are a combination of the principle subscales.

Question 19

What are some measures they take to ensure the most honest results?

Answer 19

They have the Validity scale which asks questions in such a way that they will find any lairs because the questions will contradict each other or something

Question 20

What are some of the items on the Validity Scale?

Answer 20

Cannot Say
Lie L
Infrequency (F)
Correction (K)
F-K index is where you subtract Faking it from Trying to look good.

Question 21

What is the F-K index?

Answer 21

Faking it-trying to look good=looking bad. Potential cry for help