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measures of personality Flashcards

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Clinical scale 1

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Hypochondriasis (HS)

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Clinical scale 2

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Depression (D)

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Clinical scale 3

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Hysteria (HY)

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Clinical scale 4

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Psychopathic Deviate (pd)

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Clinical scale 5

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masculinity-feminity (MI)

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Clinical scale 6

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Paranoia (Pa)

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Clinical scale 7

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Psychasthenia (Pt)

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Clinical scale 8

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Schizophrenia (Sc)

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Clinical scale 9

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Hypomania (Ma)

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Clinical scale 0

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Social introversion (SI)

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MMPI age and reading level

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18 and older
reading level - 5th, 6th, or 8th

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what is the MMPI rational content analysis

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new content scales were derived from a rational content analysis which entailed first selecting items on the basis of their content and then including in a scale those items that had correlations of .50 or above with the total scale score and low correlation with total scores on other scales

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L (lie)

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-high score - attempt to present in a favorable light or lack of insight into the motivation
-associated with a reduced ability to benefit from psychotherapy
-low score - frankness in responding , exaggeration of negative characteristics

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F (frequency)

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-High score -> responded in a diviant or atypical manner
-fake bad, deliberate malingering, gross eccentricity, sig pathology, random responding or responding all T or F
-low score - attempt to fake good, tendency toward social conformity, denial of problems or an absence sig psychopathology
-T score of 100 or higher suggest an invalid profile

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K (correction)

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  • High - high degree of defensiveness or denial, a desire to fake good or false on all the time
    -associated with resistance and poor treatment prognosis
    -low score suggests frankness, self-criticism or desire to fake bad
    -K scale suppressor variable - defensiveness, education level, and SES
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Cannot say (?)

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-high score - reading difficulties, indecisiveness, distractability, rebelliousness, or defensiveness.
-30 or more cannot say items may indicate an invalid profile

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F Back (Fb)

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fake bad on the last 197 items

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Variable Response inconsistency (VRIN)

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VRIN - consistency
T score 80 or above is an invalid profile

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True Response inconsistency (TRIN)

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-paired items that are the opposite of each other
-additional measure of consistency
-interpret as the VRIN scale

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Infrequency pathology (Fp)

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-infrequently endorsed by psychiatric patients
- high score indicates an attempt to “fake bad” even if the examinee is a psychiatric patient

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MMPI-RF

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alternative to MMPI-2
clarify scores
9 restructured cliical RC scales
8 validity scales

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what is the MMPI M and SD

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mean = 50 and SD = 10 and T score of 65 or higher is clinically significant

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What do you start with when you interpret the MMPI

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validity

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what does elevated L, low F, and elevated K mean

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faking good that is a common pattern in child custody litigants “parental alienation syndrome”

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Extremely elevated F scale score and high value on F-K index (F-K greater than +9)

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fake bad
linked to malingering
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saw-toothed (high and low scores on alternate scales

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random responding to test items looks like what

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very elevated F scale score and high scores (T>65) on most or all of the clinical scales

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what is one problem with the MMPI standardization sample

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Disproportionately large number of people were college graduates and only 5% had less than a high score education

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Edwards personal preference schedule
-type of test
-what theory
-what does it measure
-force choice consequiences

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-structured personality test
-Murray’s personality theory
-forced-choice - social desirability ( format helps control the tendency of examine to respond in socially desirable ways and ipsative scores (permits a comparison of the relative strength of 15 needs but not absolute strength

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16 factor questionnaire

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  • catell
  • based on factor analysis
  • 16 primary personality traits
    -interpret examinee’s profile with the profile of assocaited groups
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what were cultural differences in the comparision in the big 5 traits

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East Asians - lowest on Extraversion, Agreeableness, and openness
AA - highest on agreeableness and conscientiousness

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Myers-Briggs type indicator

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  • carl jung
    -personality 4 bi-polar dimensions - introversion-extroversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling, and judging, perceiving
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Projective test share several characteristics

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1) use is based on assumption that ambiguous and unstructured stimuli can elicit meaningful information about examine’s personality and underlying conflicts - projective hypothesis
2) less suceptible than structured test –faking and response test
3) reveal unconscious global aspects

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Age for Rorschach inkblot test

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ages 2 and older

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what are the 2 phases of the Rorschach inkblot

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free association phase and inquiry phase

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Rorschach ink blot categories

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location, determinants, form quality, content, and popularity/frequency

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Rorschach validity

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questionable

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according to Wood and collegues what are good predictors of psychotic disorders and intelligence test?

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-psychotic disorders: form quality, deviant verbalization, human responses, schizophrenia, perceptual thinking, and ego impairment

  • intelligence test scores: devel quality, organizational activity, complexity, human movement, human responses, form quality,
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what are the key concepts for measures of personality (type of test)

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MMPI-2 (validity scales, T-Scores, Profile analysis)

Big Five personality traits

Rorschach inkblot test (administration, scores categories, interpretation)

Thematic Apperception Test

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Key concepts for clinical assessment

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  • Halstead-Reitan
    -Bender-Gestalt II
    -Wisconsin Card sorting Test
  • Stroop color-word association test
    -Mini mental state exam
    -Glasgow coma scale
    -Beck depression Inventory II
    -Individual with disabilities education act
    -Larry P.V. Riles
    -Vineland-II
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Neurpsychological batteries

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  • Halstead-Reitan and Luria-Nebraska

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