Week 9

Question 1

Narrow scope inventories

Answer 1

Focus on targeted aspects of personality

Question 2

Broad scope inventories

Answer 2

More comprehensive with 200+ items measuring multiple domains of personality

Question 3

Personality profile

Answer 3

Extent to which a person has demonstrated certain personality traits, states or types

Question 4

Response style

Answer 4

Tendency to respond to test item/ interview question in some characteristic manner regardless of the content of the item or question

Question 5

Test personality construction divided into

Answer 5

Deductive vs empirical

Question 6

Deductive test construction divided into

Answer 6

Logical content (content, intuitive or rational approach)
Theoretical

Question 7

Empirical test construction divided into

Answer 7

Criterion group (contrasted group method, external strategy, empirical strategy, criterion keying method)
Factor analytic

Question 8

MMPI

Answer 8

Criterion group
True or false self report
Three scales: validity, clinical and content

Question 9

Validity scales in MMPI

Answer 9

lie scale
K scale
Infrequency scale

Question 10

Lie scale

Answer 10

Items are personal weaknesses that most people are willing to admit to
High score means unwilling to acknowledge minor flaws

Question 11

Infrequency scale

Answer 11

Items scored infrequently by normal population

High score invalidates test

Question 12

K scale

Answer 12

Detect attempts to deny problems and only show self in favourable light
High scores show attempt to project image of self control and invalidates test

Question 13

Meehan’s extension of empirical approach

Answer 13

People became identified by numbers instead of scale names of MMPI when they showed elevations

Question 14

MMPI-2

Answer 14

Updated and expanded norms, removed outdated items
Clinical elevation standard dropped to 65
2 new validity scales: back f; TRIN and VRIN

Question 15

16PF

Answer 15

Lexical approach, factor analysis
Not as good psychometric as MMPI
Converts raw scores to sten, difficult to interpret

Question 16

5 global dichotomous scales

Answer 16

Introversion, extra version 
Low, high anxiety 
Receptivity, tough mindedness
Accomodation, independence 
Lack of restraint, self control

Question 17

NEO-PI

Answer 17

Factor analysis and theory were basis
First to focus on positive traits
Neuroticism, extra version , openness. Each had 6 Facets. Each with 14 items

Question 18

CPI

Answer 18

Developed from MMPI for more normative traits

Non psychopathology

Question 19

MBI

Answer 19

From psycho dynamics 
Extra version, introversion 
Sensing, intuition, 
Thinking, feeling 
Judgement, perception.

Question 20

EPI

Answer 20

Eysenck’s 3F model: extra version, psychoticism, neuroticism

Question 21

SASQ

Answer 21

Behavioural assessment 
Optimism vs pessimism 
Interval v external events 
Stable v unstable 
Global v specific

Question 22

GSE

Answer 22

3 areas of inidividual ability
Organise resources and manage situation
Persist in the face of barriers
Recovery from setbacks

Question 23

PANAS

Answer 23

two orthogonal dimensions of affect: positive and negative affects
Each scale has ten adjectives, rate how each applies to their emotional state in a given time period

Question 24

Projective test assumptions

Answer 24

Psychic determinism: any emitted behaviour is not random or accidental
Over determinism: what a person does or says reflects their personality
Projective hypothesis: whatever a person sees in a stimulus is assumed to be a reflection of their personal qualities or characteristics

Question 25

Word association tests

Answer 25

Uses series of unrelated stimulus words to which subject must respond with first word coming to mind

Question 26

Sentence completion test

Answer 26

Uses a series of incomplete sentences and subjects are instructed to respond with their real feelings