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Objective Assessment
Final for MMPI, MCMI, 16PF
50
Psychology
Graduate
12/07/2009

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mmpi 1st published in...
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1940s
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What kind of test is MMPI?
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Empirical Test
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How are answers decided for MMPI
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by empirical results
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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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Low K scale indicattes?
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possible over-reporting, opposite of defensiveness
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MMPI score distribution representation?
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T scores
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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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truly random 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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FKL all 50-60?
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normal profile
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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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low scores on L scale?
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admitting faults, don't care about other peoples opinion's, confident
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F>50 (low)?
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conventionality (over) when L, K not elevated; effort to deny distress
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low L (<45)?
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candor about revealing minor faults
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Low K (35-45)?
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overreporting, limited resources to cope; highly self critical
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low S (<45)?
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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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Somatic complaints
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MMPI Scale 2: Depression
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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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Scale 3: Hysteria
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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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Scale 6: Paranoia (Pa)
Definition
externalization, persecutory ideas, resentment

low: little regard for feelings of others
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Scale 7: Psychasthenia (Pt)
Definition
anxiety, fear, worry, self-dissatisfaction, obsessiveness, compulsivity

low: self confidence and security
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Scale 8: Schizophrenia (Sc)
Definition
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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Scale 9: Hypomania (Ma)
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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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VRIN measures...
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consistency
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TRIN measures...
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acquiescence, all true or all false
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Symptoms: unhappiness, pessimism, low self-esteem =
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depression
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Symptoms: selfish behavior
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psychopathic deviant
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Symptoms: anger, grandeur
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paranoid
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Symptoms: isolation from others?
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??
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Symptoms:shy insecure?
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introversion
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Symptoms: high regard for self, energetic?
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hypomania
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True or False: F is largely insensitive to psychopathology...
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FALSE
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T OR F: O-H scale not good at predicting violence...
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TRUE
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When using codetypes, how does 87 and 78 differ?
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doesn't 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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scale 3 (no insight)
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clinical scales best understood by....
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TRUE
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low scale associated with denial of anger?
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Scale 6 (Paranoia)
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low score indicates happy?
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Scale 2: Depression
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low score is extroversion?
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Scale 0: Social Introversion/Extraversion
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low energy?
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Scale 9: Hypomania
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absence of physical complaints?
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Scale 1: Hypochondriasis
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low scores are congruent gender ID
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Scale 5: Masculinity/Femininity Scale
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low scores follow rules
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Scale 4: Psychopathic Deviate
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