week 3

Question 1

biggest validity scales

Answer 1

L scale
F scale
K scale

Question 2

F scale “infrequency scale”

Answer 2

less than 10% endorse these items
detects deviant or atypical way of responding

Question 3

Possible reasons for elevated F

Answer 3

reading difficulties
random responding due to confusion or inattention
uncooperative
malingering or conscious exaggeration
cry for help or narcissistic demands for attention
true disturbance accurately reported

Question 4

K correction

Answer 4

could indicate that they are down playing a problem
makes clinical scales more realistic in light of one’s efforts to look good
take an empirically determined proportion of K scale score and add it to clinical scales susceptible to the influence of social desirability

Question 5

accomplishing K correction

Answer 5

adding a percentage of K scale raw score to:
scale 1 = add .5 of raw K score
scale 4 = add .4 of raw K score
scale 7 = add 1 full K score
scale 8 = add 1 full K score
scale 9 = add .2 of raw K score

Question 6

importance of collaboration

Answer 6

the validity indicators are useful but nothing is as good as collaboration with the client

no substitute for active willing participation of a client

Question 7

principle of profile on the MMPI

Answer 7

the constellation of scales give us more info than individual scales alone

Question 8

scale 1

Answer 8

hypochondriasis
how someone adapts to health or illness
preoccupation with body and fear of disease

Question 9

scale 2

Answer 9

depression
poor morale, lack of hope, general dissatisfaction
harris-Lingoes subscales (5)
Nichols’ subscales

Question 10

Nichols’ subscales for scale 2

Answer 10

Dr1. depressed mood
Dr2. inhibition of aggression
Dr3. somatic malaise
Dr4. cognitive infirmity
Dr5. social vulnerability

Question 11

subscale 3

Answer 11

Hysteria
denial of physical and/or psychological problems
resistant to seeing problems
defenses: repression and denial

Question 12

scale 3 harris-Lingoes

Answer 12

Hy1: denial of social anxiety
Hy2: need for affection (better: denial of anger)
Hy3: Lassitude-Malaise
Hy4: somatic complaints
Hy5: inhibition of aggression

Question 13

Scale 4

Answer 13

psychopathic deviate
difficulty incorporating values and standards of society, acting out, low frustration tolerance
can be elevated solely from family conflict
defenses: externalizing (acting out and projection)
exciter scale: elevation increases likelihood of acting out

Question 14

Scale 4 harris lingoes

Answer 14

Pd1: familial discord
Pd2: authority problems
Pd3: social imperturbability
Pd4: social alienation
Pd5: self alienation

Question 15

Scale 5

Answer 15

Masculinity-femininity
not a good scale - dont interpret the global score
Martin-Finn subscales are essential
reverse T-score for females
elevations for females suggests masculinity (active)
elevations for males suggest femininity (passive)

Question 16

Scale 6

Answer 16

Paranoia
reflects:
1) psychosis (ideas of references delusions)
2) personality (suspicious, distrustful, interpersonal sensitivity)
defenses: projection, externalizing, rationalization
both high and low scores suggest paranoia
exciter scale, related to acting out

Question 17

scale 6 harris-Lingoes subscale

Answer 17

Pa1: persecutory ideas
Pa2: poignancy
Pa3: naivete (better name: Moral righteousness)

Question 18

Scale 7

Answer 18

psychasthenia
anxiety worry fearfulness brooding rumination
“obsessive compulsive”
defenses: intellectualization, rationalization, isolation of affect
inhibitor scale - elevation suggests acting out less likely
no subscales
being self-critical can get elevated score on this scale

Question 19

scale 8

Answer 19

schizophrenia
two main content areas
1) funny thinking
2) social isolation
can get elevations with only social isolation

Question 20

scale 8 harris-Lingoes

Answer 20

Sc1: social alienation
Sc2: emotional alienation
Sc3: lack of Ego mastery - cognitive
Sc4: lack of ego Mastery - Conative
Sc5: Lack of ego mastery - Defective inhibition
Sc6: bizarre sensory experiences
* low sense of identity
* feelings of defectiveness or deformed

Question 21

Scale 9

Answer 21

hypomania = mild mania
elevated mood and energy
enhancing scale - energizes elevations on scales 4, 6, 8
HL subscales

Question 22

scale 9 Harris-Lingoes subscale

Answer 22

Ma1: amorality
Ma2: psychomotor
Ma3: imperturbability
Ma4: Ego inflation

Question 23

Scale 0

Answer 23

social introversion
tendency to withdrawal
two main areas
1) social participation
2) self-deprecation
highly heritable (30 year retest ~.8)
Ben Porath et al subscale

Question 24

scale 0 subscale

Answer 24

Si1: shyness/self consciousness
Si2: social avoidance
Si3: self/other alienation

Question 25

Welsh Code for the MMPI

Answer 25

Step1: list numbers of the 10 clinical scales from left to right in order of T score
Step 2: record the 3 validity scales (L F K) in order of T scores (separate from the clinical scales)
Step3: underline adjacent scales whose T scores are identical or differ by only 1 t score point
step4: insert symbols after the clinical scale
step5: list symbol for any range not represented between scales that span it
step 6: place symbols for the validity scales