Week 9

Question 1

what is TAT?

Answer 1

A personality test which provides ambiguous stimuli designed to assess unconscious processes

People express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scene

Question 2

what is an example of TAT

Answer 2

The clinician seeks to indetify people inner feeling by analysing their interpretations of ‘blots’.

Question 3

why assess personality?

Answer 3

Personality testing can assist in understanding particular behaviour, and making prediction of future behaviour

Question 4

describe systematic testing?

Answer 4

Specific questions or statement to which the person responds by using specific, fixed answers or a rating scale. t/f MCQ, rating scale.

Question 5

what is a narrow scope inventory

Answer 5

inventories focus on targeted aspects of personality (e.g., BDI)

Question 6

what is a broad scope inventory

Answer 6

inventories are more omprehensive with 200+ items measuring multiple domains of personality.

Question 7

what is response style why is it imporant

Answer 7

the tendancy to respond to a test item or interveiw in some characteristic manner regardless of the content of the item of questions.

effects validity

Question 8

what is impression managment?

Answer 8

the attempt to manipulate others impressions through tghe selective exposure of some infomation coupled with supression of other infomation

Question 9

what is the validity scale

Answer 9

a subscale of a test designed to assist in telling how honestly the test taker responded, and if responses were due to carlessness, deception ect.

Question 10

describe the MMPI and its 3 scales

Answer 10

t/f self report
validity scale - gaurds against mallingering
Clincal scale - identifies disorder
Content scale - related to specific content areas (anger)
designed for diagnosis by destinguishing normal from non normal groups.

Question 11

what is Meehls extention of the empirical approach.
What 2 things did he change on the MMPI.
(two point code approach)

Answer 11

two point code approach = analysing the two highest clinical elevations when more than two occur.
New criterion groups were established based on similarities in MMPI profiles
AND
Suggested changing the names of certain scales and adding numbers to them—people became identified by a numerical MMPI code rather than the names of the scales on which they showed elevations

Question 12

what is a lie scale F scale and K scale

Answer 12

k detects attempts to deny problems. F detects devience. lie detects lies

Question 13

does Meels Extentions of the empricial approach use criterion or contrasted group stratergy

Answer 13

criterion group stratergy

Question 14

describe the Restandardisation of the MMPI-2

Answer 14

remove outdates items and broaden item pool. develop adolesent scale.
two new scales true response inconsistency scale and varibale response inconsistency scale

Question 15

describe the problems of the Restandardisation of the MMPI-2

Answer 15

clincial evaluation dropped to 65.

New standardization sample had some problems with representing overall population

Question 16

is it a problem for the MMPI that some items appear on multiple scales. why?

Answer 16

yes because This leads to high intercorrelations between scales that may be artificially increased

Question 17

what is the 16PF

Answer 17

16 Personality Factor Questionnaire - factor analysis
Standardization conducted with great care and attention
Extended to various forms for different age groups

Question 18

what are the 5 global personality scaled present in 16PF

Answer 18

intro/extroversion
low/high anxiety
receptivity/tough-mindedness 
accommodation/independence 
Lack of restraint/self control

Question 19

What are is the 16PF pros and cons

Answer 19

pros: short, corresponds to big 5
Cons: overeducated sample used instandardisation. raw score converts to sten (difficult to interpret)

Question 20

The NEOPersonality Inventory—Three

Answer 20

Factor analysis and theory were the basis of this first personality scale to focus on positive traits. (neuroticism, extroverison and openess). Each trait comprised of six facets –> Each facet has 14 items. also support five factor model of personality

Question 21

what is the california personality inventory?

Answer 21

developed from MMPI for more normative traits (non-psychopathological)

Question 22

describe the Meyers-Brigss indicator

Answer 22

extraversion- introversion. sensing - intuition. thinking vs feeling. judgment vs perception

Question 23

describe the general self efficiency scale and the three areas it measures.
how long does it take to complete

Answer 23

assess three areas of individual ability.
- organise and manage
-persist in face of barrier
- recovery from set backs
4 mins 
equivelent across culture

Question 24

describe the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule

Answer 24

measure positive and negative affect. each scale has 10 adjectives and the subject rates how each applies to them.

Question 25

what is a projective test?

Answer 25

Indirect methods of personality assessment where in o Respondent ‘project’ their individual interpretation of ambiguous stimuli and Assessment techniques reveal the unconscious psychic material while keeping subjects basically unaware of the purpose of the test.

Question 26

what are the assumptions of projective tests?

Answer 26

Psychic determinism - emitted behavoiur is not random, or accidental Over determinism - what are person does or says reflects personality projective hypothesis: what one sees in a stimuli is a refrlection of the personal qualitites.

Question 27

what is the general goal of the rorschach inkblot test

Answer 27

to provide data about cognition personality ect under the assumption that an individual will describe external stimuli based on peson specific perceptual sets

Question 28

what is a thematic apperception test

Answer 28

Look at a picture and write a stroy depicting what was happening. the story you write is directly related to you personality congition ect

Question 29

Word Association test

Answer 29

subject response with the first thing that comes to mind when a word it said

Question 30

litimations of projective tests

Answer 30

open to bias and impression managment. time consuming. low relibaility and validity subjective not standardised.

Question 31

limitations of personality inventories

Answer 31

people not good at accuratly self reporting Impression managment - people may manipulate responses (fake good/bad) respondent can only give one range of responses and they cannot clarify or explain what they meant. cultural bias.