PSYC 4270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Traumatic Brain Injury, Validity Scale

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4270
• Professor: Gerald Young

Document Summary

There is much controversy in the field about the presence of third party observers (tpo) or audio or video recording of evaluations. A test is an evaluative device or procedure in which a sample of an examinee"s behavior in a specified domain is obtained and subsequently evaluated and scored using a standardized process. While the label test is ordinarily reserved for instruments or quality and the terms scale or inventory are used for measures of attitudes, interest, and disposition, the. Standards uses the single term test to refer to all such evaluative devices. There are no forensic assessment instruments that were designed and validated specifically for. Empirical research connects an individual"s psychological, motivational, emotional, intellectual, social, and other characteristics with past, current, and future behavior and consequences. Over-reliance on computer-based interpretations of psychological tests should generally be. Some psychologists treat the software-generated interpretation as if it were avoided in forensic cases. dispositive and their own product.