8 Personality Assessment
8 Personality Assessment
FOCUS QUESTIONS
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of
objective tests? - What are the major strategies of test construc-
tion? Briefly describe each of these. - 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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