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| What kind of test is MMPI? |
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| How are answers decided for MMPI |
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| What can you tell client upon administration of MMPI? |
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| that it's a test, used frequently, general ideas behind test, measuring aspects of personality. CanNOT give names of scales |
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| What does high score on L scale suggest? |
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| Denial of faults, wants to be seen in favorable light, defensive, maybe lack of insight |
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| What is F > 100 indicate? |
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| endorsement of a lot of bizarre, infrequent items, can be sign of malingering, exaggeration, over-reporting (honest) or seriously disturbed |
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| possible over-reporting, opposite of defensiveness |
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| MMPI score distribution representation? |
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| Why didn't MMPI change much |
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| became immediately popular, defects but too popular to change |
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| F>100, elevated K,L ~65; inverted v profile? |
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| F>100, elevated K,L ~50 or 40? |
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| fake bad profile, or extremely psychotic |
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| F low, K and L high; v-profile? |
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| fake good, people who want to look normal... getting into college, wanting out of hospital, etc |
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| admitting faults, don't care about other peoples opinion's, confident |
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| conventionality (over) when L, K not elevated; effort to deny distress |
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| candor about revealing minor faults |
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| overreporting, limited resources to cope; highly self critical |
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| degree of distress and behavioral disturbance b/c of psychopathology or overreporting |
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| MMPI Scale 1: Hypochondriasis |
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unhappiness, anxiety and worry, apathy, lethargy, nonimpulsiveness, physical symtpoms, low self-esteem.
Low: optimism, can be excessive |
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somatic complaints, denial of cynicism and mistrust, health dysphoria, anxious depression, social inadequacy
low: avoiding somatic complaints, asserting of social interest and friendliness |
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| Scale 4: Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) |
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family conflict, antisocial bx and attitudes, social fearfulness, social alienation, unhappiness dissatisfaction, guilt
low: easy going, at peace with themselves and others |
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| Scale 5: Masculinity-Femininity Scale (Mf) |
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sex-role related interests, activities; sexual concerns, conflict, worry, denial of cynicsim and mistrust, social reserve
high men/low women: bx control non-aggressiveness |
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externalization, persecutory ideas, resentment
low: little regard for feelings of others |
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| Scale 7: Psychasthenia (Pt) |
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anxiety, fear, worry, self-dissatisfaction, obsessiveness, compulsivity
low: self confidence and security |
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| Scale 8: Schizophrenia (Sc) |
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alienated relationships w others (Parents), motor and sensory complaints, apathy and depressive w/drawal, loss of impulse control
low: contentment, conventionality, status consciousness, timidity, caution, tendency to yield to will of others |
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hypomanic excitement; imperturbability, inflated self0esteem
low: depression, psychomotor retardation, overcontrol |
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| Scale 0: Social Introversion/Extroversion |
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social inhibition, group avoidance, circumspection, somatic and mental symptoms, low self0confidence, self-consciousness
low: cheerfulness, extroversion, overall adjustment |
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| low F (especially in clinical population)? |
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| they are in denial, want F to be 50-55, low indicates denial |
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| acquiescence, all true or all false |
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| Symptoms: unhappiness, pessimism, low self-esteem = |
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| Symptoms: selfish behavior |
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| Symptoms: anger, grandeur |
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| Symptoms: isolation from others? |
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| Symptoms: high regard for self, energetic? |
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| True or False: F is largely insensitive to psychopathology... |
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| T OR F: O-H scale not good at predicting violence... |
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| When using codetypes, how does 87 and 78 differ? |
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| better prognosis: 3,6,7 or 8 |
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| 7 b/c they want to change |
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| which scale has difficulty expressing anger? |
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| clinical scales best understood by.... |
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| low scale associated with denial of anger? |
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| low score indicates happy? |
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| low score is extroversion? |
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| Scale 0: Social Introversion/Extraversion |
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| absence of physical complaints? |
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| low scores are congruent gender ID |
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| Scale 5: Masculinity/Femininity Scale |
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| Scale 4: Psychopathic Deviate |
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