Clinical Psychology
operation, and produce a result (e.g., repeat backward digits presented by the examiner). TheProcessing Speed Index (PSI)consis ...
Reliability and Validity. Wechsler (2003) re- ported that the average (across age groups) split- half reliabilities for the Verb ...
7years,3months.Reliabilities for the composite scores exceeded .89. The WPPSI was standardized atthesametimeasapopularmeasureofa ...
The Appraisal of Style. As we have noted, what is important is not only whether the client succeeds or fails on particular test ...
use general tests of intelligence at all. In many ways, this question can be reduced to cost–benefit terms. If one is especially ...
concurrent validityThe extent to which test scores correlate with scores on other relevant measures administered at the same tim ...
Based on test–retest correlations, IQ scores tend to be less stable for young children than for adults. Stanford-Binet Fifth Edi ...
8 Personality Assessment 8 Personality Assessment FOCUS QUESTIONS What are the advantages and disadvantages of objective tests? ...
F or years, it has been popular to bemoan the sorry state of psychological testing. Supposedly, “no one”uses such tests any long ...
role of inventories, as well as their current promi- nence, is due in large part to their obvious advan- tages. First of all, th ...
Disadvantages The items of many inventories are often behavioral in nature. That is, the questions or statements con- cern behav ...
related to what prevailing psychiatric opinion regarded as maladjustment. Ensuring content validity, however, involves much more ...
thought to reflect basic dimensions of personality. Theexploratoryfactor analytic approach is atheoreti- cal. One begins by capt ...
and McKinley in 1943, it is still considered the pre- eminent self-report inventory (Butcher, 2010). The MMPI has been used for ...
individuals, or individuals with psychopathic features from non-clinical individuals. No attempt was made to select items that d ...
standardization group. A high F score may suggest deviant response sets, markedly aberrant behavior, or other hypotheses about e ...
similar or opposite content. High VRIN scores suggest random responding to MMPI-2 items. TRIN (True Response Inconsistency) Sca ...
Short Forms. Over the years, a variety of short forms of the MMPI have appeared. These scales typ- ically shorten the MMPI to co ...
Dahlstrom, Welsh, and Dahlstrom (1972, 1975) noted 450 MMPI supplementary scales, ranging from Dominance and Suspiciousness to S ...
by MMPI-2 items may suggest certain personality traits or styles, it was not developed with person- ality constructs in mind. Do ...
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