PSYC 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Face Validity, Malingering, Impression Management
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Structured personality tests: structured personality tests: paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that respondents answer in one of a few fixed ways. Mmpi and mmp1-2: detecting abnormal personality: minnesota multiphasic personality inventory: widely used structural personality test designed to assess symptoms of mental disorders. Mmpi and mmpi-2 evaluated scientifically: largely redundant with each other, can"t use them to make formal diagnoses of mental disorders bc high scores on these scales aren"t specific for a single disorder. Projective tests: projective tests: test containing of ambiguous stimuli that examinees must interpret or make sense of, projective hypothesis: hypothesis that in the process of interpreting ambiguous stimuli, examinees project aspects of their personality onto the stimulus. Rorschach inkblot test: what might this be: rorschach inkblot test: projective test consisting of 10 symmetrical inkblots, look at each inkblot and say what it resembles, scientifically controversial. Thematic apperception test: thematic apperception test: projective test requiring examinees to tell a story in response to ambiguous pictures.
