Clinical Psychology

8 Personality Assessment

8 Personality Assessment

FOCUS QUESTIONS

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
   objective tests?


2. What are the major strategies of test construc-
   tion? Briefly describe each of these.


3. What are the similarities and differences
   between objective and projective measures?
   4. Why are the reliability and validity of projective
   measures so difficult to assess?
   5. What does and what does not constitute evi-
   dence for test bias?

CHAPTER OUTLINE

Objective Tests
Advantages
Disadvantages
Methods of Construction for Objective Tests
The MMPI and the MMPI-2
BOX8-1:Clinical Psychologist Perspective:
Yossef S. Ben-Porath, Ph.D.
A Summary Evaluation of the MMPI and
MMPI-2
The Revised NEO-Personality Inventory
NEO-PI-R Case Illustration

Projective Tests
The Nature of Projective Tests
Measurement and Standardization
The Rorschach

Rorschach Case Illustration 1

Rorschach Case Illustration 2

The Thematic Apperception Test

TAT Case Illustration

Sentence Completion Techniques

Illusory Correlation

Incremental Validity and Utility

The Use and Abuse of Testing

BOX8-2:Graduate Student Perspective:

Danielle L. Burchett

CHAPTER SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

WEB SITES OF INTEREST

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