TESTS MEASURING SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Flashcards
Its various versions present a list of 50 to 122 objects and situations that the client is to rate in terms of fearsomeness on 1 to 5 or 1 to 7 scales
asks subjects to indicate their discomfort, of felt anxiety, to each of the listed stimuli.
FEAR SURVEY SCHEDULE (FSS)
Use to measure Individual personality traits that was developed by Hans Eysenck.
EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE
Eysenck main focus was on temperament which he saw a long term patterns of behavior.. which suggest that there are three major dimensions of personality; extraversion/introversion, neuroticism/stability, and psychoticism. Each form contains of 57 “Yes-No” items with no repetition of answer.
THE EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE
462 true-false items, based partly on the MMPI, CPI items are grouped into 15 scales that are more diverse and positively oriented, including sociability, self-assurance, achievement potential, responsibility, self-control, and the like.
THE CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL INVENTORY
Predict delinquency, parole outcome, academic grades, and the likelihood of dropping out high school.
THE CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL INVENTORY
Proposed by Raymond Cattel
187 items
Test asses individual personality based on 16 primary factors, which include warmth, reasoning, emotional, stability, dominance, liveliness, ruleconsciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractedness, privatennes, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension.
THE 16 PERSONALITY FACTOR (16PF5E)
It is based on Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic personality type classification system;
Measures 4 dimensions ; Extraversion/introversion, sensation/ intuition, thinking /feeling, and judging perceiving
THE MYERS- BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR (MBTI)
The projective means that people “ project” or attribute to others, certain aspect of their own personality, especially the unacceptable ones.
Ambiguous or unstructured stimuli to which client is asked to respond freely.
PROJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST
It is a set of 10 colored and black-and- white inkblots created by swiss psychiatrist Herman Rorscharch between 1911 and 1921.
Psychologist use this test to try to examine the personality characteristic and emotional functioning of their patients.
Portrayed as a way of revealing a persons unconscious thoughts, motives, or desire based on how they interpret what they see in the Images.
THE RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST
It was developed in 1935 by Christiana D. Morgan and Henrey murray at the Harvard psychological Clinic
consist of 31 cards, 30 of which depict drawings of people, objects and landscapes, one is blank.
This test provides information about an individual views of self.
THE THEMATIC APPERCEPTION
25 cartoons
Developed by Saul Rosenzweig
Depict frustrating situations
Rosenzweig Picture Frustration study
Drawing of animal
Leopold and Sonya Sorel Bellak
Children Apperception test
show children interacting with adults and other children
Robert Apperception Test
it consist of a series of incomplete sentences.
Rotter Incomplete sentence blanck-
The client drawings serve as a basis for the clinician inferences about various aspects of the clients personality.
Draw-a-Person and Houses-tree-person.
clients are shown geometric shapes on nine cards and asked to draw the shapes accurately as possible.
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
the most reliable and valid psychological test are those that measure __________, followed by _____________, ____________________ and then _________________
intelligence, followed by objective (structured) test of personality and psychopathology, and then projective ( unstructured) personality test.
Clinicians should be experience in the administration and interpretation of the test they use to make decisions about clients.
Competence
Clinicians should be familiar with the research literature on a test, particularly its reliability, validity, appropriate uses, and limitations.
Professional/ Scientific responsibility
Clinicians should use tests as intended and not make claims about test or test results unless those claims are supported by empirical evidence.
Integrity
Clinicians should ensure that a test genuinely applies to those who take the test, especially people from different cultures.
Respect for rights and dignity
First , clinicians should do no harm in using test; they should recognize their potential for harm, specially if test results are inappropriately applied.
Concern for others welfare
Clinicians should not disseminate test materials or the protected content of test to unauthorized people; they should take action to prevent the misuse of test by others.
Social responsibility
Ethical practice prohibits test developers and users from making public the contents of certain psychological test ( such as IQ tests); tests are commercially available only to qualified users
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