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Week 8: Personality Assessment Flashcards

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Benefits of interviews

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  • information about the individual and their relationships
  • allows the therapist to contextualise the clients problem
  • problem behaviours are isolated and goals for therapy are selected
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List different types of interviews

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  • semi structured

- structured

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Example of a semi structured interview

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Clinical interview which is guided by the client but also has a focus

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Example of a structured interview

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Very specific questions e.g. for assessing depression

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Criterion group

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A group examined for characteristics that others belonging to the group are already recognised as having

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Criterion

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A standard by which something can be judged

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IPIP-120

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  • a measure of normal personality
  • general non clinical population
  • 120 statements, likert response scale
  • uses the big 5
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MMPI-2

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  • minnesota multiphase personality inventory-2
  • 567 statements - true, false, cannot say
  • provides a personality profile about current psychological functioning and characteristic ways of responding
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What are MMPI validity scales designed to detect

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  • non/inconsistent reporting
  • over reporting or exaggerating
  • under reporting or downplaying
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List the MMPI clinical scales

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  • hypochondriasis
  • depression
  • hysteria
  • psychopathic deviate
  • masculinity-femininity
  • paranoia
  • psychasthenia
  • schizophrenia
  • hypomania
  • social introversion
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Describe the hypochondriasis scale

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Subject is unrealistically concerned with physical complaints

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Describe the depression scale

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Subject is unhappy, depressed and pessimistic

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Describe the hysteria scale

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Subject focuses on vague physical symptoms to avoid dealing with severe psychological distress

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Describe the psychopathic deviate scale

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Subject’s social interactions indicate emotional shallowness, rebelliousness and disregard for law or conventional morality

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Describe the masculinity-femininity scale

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Subject shows interests and behaviours usually associated with the opposite sex role

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Describe the paranoia scale

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Subject has a strong, irrational suspicions and overestimates own importance

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Describe the schizophrenia scale

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Subject is withdrawn, experiences distortions of reality and dresses and acts bizarrely

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Describe the hypomania scale

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Subject is outgoing, impulsive, overly active and excited

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Describe the social introversion scale

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Subject is withdrawn, shy, extroversion inhibited, and self effacing

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What is a criticism of the MMPI

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Cultural bias. In the US, african americans tend to score higher on certain sub scales

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Describe projective tests

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The test taker responds to an ambiguous stimuli to presumably reveal unconscious emotions and hidden conflicts projected by the person onto the test

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Describe the thematic apperception test (TAT)

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The test taker makes up a story about a set of pictures, which presumably reveals underlying motives and personality factors

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List some examples of TAT questions

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  • what has led to the event shown?
  • what is happening at the moment?
  • what are the characters feeling and thinking?
  • what was the outcome of the story?
24
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List some projective tests for children

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  • complete this sentence

- draw a house/tree/person

25
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List examples of health psychology tests

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  • clinical neuropsychology tests
  • california verbal learning tests
  • anxiety and stress assessment
  • coping
  • QOL
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List examples of neuropsychological tests

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  • EEG
  • x rays
  • CT scan
  • MRI scan
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What do neuropsychological scans measure

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  • tissue based lactate changes, reflecting the level of activity in those areas
  • measure oxygen usage or glucose metabolism
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Describe the california verbal learning test

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  • measures episodic verbal learning and memory
  • immediate recall
  • short delay free and cued recall
  • long delay free and cued recall
  • long delay recognition
  • used in conditions such as Alzheimer’s and parkinson’s disease
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List some tests for anxiety and stress management

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  • STAI
  • HADS
  • DASS
  • PSS
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Tests for coping

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  • coping inventories

- COPE inventory

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Quality of life

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The general wellbeing of individuals and societies, including life satisfaction, physical health, family, education, employment, wealth and religion

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Which country has the highest QOL?

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Norway

33
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What is an example of a performance test

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Behavioural assessment: a sampling of what a person actually does in a given situation

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Describe the psychasthenia scale

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Subject is tense, rigid, anxious and may have obsessive compulsive behaviours

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