Deck 10: Assessment of Personality

Question 1

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescents is designed for use with which age group?

A)12 - 16
B)12 - 18
C)14 - 18
D)14 - 19

Answer 1

14 - 18

Question 2

An individual with a high score on this factor would tend to be courteous,tolerant,and compassionate.

A)Agreeableness
B)Conscientiousness
C)Extraversion
D)Neuroticism
E)Openness to experience

Answer 2

Agreeableness

Question 3

Who is credited with the development of the first formal personality assessment?

A)Freud
B)Terman
C)Woodworth
D)Wechsler

Answer 3

Woodworth

Question 4

An individual with a low score on this factor would tend to be unreliable and display less self-control.

A)Agreeableness
B)Conscientiousness
C)Extraversion
D)Neuroticism
E)Openness to experience

Question 5

Which approach to developing personality scales involves developing items based on their apparent relevance to the construct being measured?

A)Content/rational approach
B)Empirical keying
C)Factor analytic
D)Theoretical

Question 6

Which personality inventory is based largely on factor analytic studies?

A)MMPI
B)Symptom Checklist - 90
C)Woodworth Personal Data Sheet
D)NEO Personality Inventory - Revised

Question 7

The ______________ approach is a process in which a large pool of items is administered to a clinical group with a specific diagnosis and a control group.These items are then statistically examined to determine which ones discriminate between the two groups.

A)content/relational
B)empirical keying
C)factor analytic
D)theoretical

Question 8

Typical response tests best measure:

A)achievement.
B)aptitude.
C)intelligence.
D)interests.

Question 9

Which personality test was developed using the empirical criterion keying approach?

A)MMPI.
B)Symptom Checklist - 90
C)Woodworth Personal Data Sheet
D)NEO Personality Inventory - Revised

Question 10

Which personality test is based on a theory by C.G.Jung?

A)MMPI-2
B)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
C)NEO Personality Inventory - Revised
D)Symptom Checklist - 90

Question 11

The relatively consistent patterns of thought,feeling,and behaviors that characterize each person as a unique individual define:

A)attitude.
B)behavior.
C)mindset.
D)personality.

Question 12

A substantially elevated "F Index" on the Behavior Assessment for Children - Self-Report of Personality most likely would indicate:

A)an intentional desire to "fake bad".
B)an individual with a "social desirability" response set.
C)an open and honest response style.
D)a tendency to endorse all items as "False."

Question 13

Which factor is contained in the contemporary Five Factor Model of personality?

A)Anxiety
B)Conscientiousness
C)Independence
D)Tough-mindedness

Question 14

A _________ is a stable internal characteristic that is manifested as a tendency to behave in a particular manner whereas a ________ is a transient emotional state that fluctuates over time.

A)constant; variable
B)variable; constant
C)trait; state
D)state; trait

Question 15

Test-retest reliability coefficients will typically be ________ when measuring state-related relative to trait-related constructs.

A)about the same.
B)higher.
C)lower.

Question 16

______________ is often credited with being a leader in the use of factor analysis to understand the structure of the normal personality,and also published the original 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire.

A)Cattell
B)Cronbach
C)Freud
D)Woodworth

Question 17

What validity scale would you expect to be elevated if the examinee was overly careless while answering the items on the Behavior Assessment for Children - Self-Report of Personality?

A)F index
B)L index
C)V index

Question 18

Which personality assessment does not include formal validity scales?

A)BASC-SRP
B)MMPI-2
C)MMPI-2- RF
D)NEO Personality Inventory - Revised

Question 19

Extraversion is an example of a(n):

A)attitude.
B)feeling.
C)state.
D)trait.

Question 20

Personality is a ____________ construct and __________ be summarized in a total score.

A)multi-dimensional; can
B)multi-dimensional; cannot
C)unitary; can
D)unitary; cannot

Question 21

In the early days of personality assessment,one common validation technique was to have people take the test and then have a clinician write a description of the examinee's personality structure based on the test results.The description would then be provided to the examinee who would rate how much they agreed with the description.What is the major threat to this technique?

A)Flynn effect
B)Forer effect
C)Projective effect
D)Content invalidation

Question 22

The BASC-SRP produces _______ as an index of global psychopathology.

A)the Emotional Symptoms Index
B)Inattention/ Hyperactivity
C)Internalizing Problems
D)Personal Adjustment
E)School Problems

Question 23

The most widely used projective drawing technique is the:

A)Bicycle Drawing Task
B)Draw-A-Person test.
C)House-Tree-Person.
D)Kinetic Family Drawing.

Question 24

In terms of performance on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,________ indicates a preference for structure and decisiveness.

A)Judging
B)Perceiving
C)Sensing
D)Thinking

Question 25

Which personality test includes a Lie Scale,Infrequency Scale,and Correction scale?

A)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
B)MMPI-2
C)Neo Personality Inventory
D)Thematic Apperception Test

Question 26

The Beck Depression Inventory has __________ test-retest reliability with a one week interval.

A)good
B)poor
C)zero

Question 27

Who developed a comprehensive system that integrated the most empirically supported features of the existing systems for scoring the Rorschach Inkblot test?

A)Binet.
B)Exner.
C)Freud.
D)Woodworth.

Question 28

A high score on the Masculinity-Femininity scale on the MMPI-2 clinical scale would indicate a tendency:

A)to reject stereotypical gender roles.
B)toward acceptance of stereotypical gender roles.
C)toward more masculine gender roles.
D)toward more feminine gender roles.

Question 29

The _________ is an example of a theoretically based contemporary objective personality test.

A)MMPI-2
B)Rorschach Inkblot Test
C)MMPI-2-RF
D)MCMI-III
E)NEO Personality Inventory - Revised

Question 30

A high score on the Personal Adjustment composite scale of the BASC-SRP indicates:

A)difficulty adjusting.
B)a high IQ.
C)negative behaviors.
D)positive behaviors.

Question 31

The ____________ contains personality and clinical syndrome scales that parallel the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories.

A)MMPI-2
B)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
C)MCMI-III
D)Woodworth Personal Data Sheet

Question 32

What statistical method was primarily used in developing the revised clinical scales on the MMPI-2-RF?

A)Analysis of Variance
B)Correlational analysis
C)Cluster analysis
D)Factor analysis

Question 33

Which personality test contains scales such as neuroticism and agreeableness?

A)MCMI-III
B)Thematic Apperception Test
C)MMPI-2
D)NEO Personality Inventory

Question 34

Which of the following is considered to be a projective personality test?

A)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
B)MMPI-2
C)NEO Personality Inventory
D)Rorschach Ink Blot Test

Question 35

The __________ is a projective technique designed for use in those 6 - 18 years of age and includes a standardized scoring system and normative data.

A)BASC-SRP
B)Roberts-2
C)Rorschach Ink Blot Test
D)Thematic Apperception Test

Question 36

There is __________ research supporting the psychometric properties of projective personality tests.These instruments remain ____________ among clinicians.

A)considerable; unpopular
B)considerable; popular
C)little; unpopular
D)little; popular

Question 37

Which collaboration between a client and a psychologist begins with the client identifying the questions they need answered in their life to better deal with their current struggles,then attempts to answer those questions using psychological tests?

A)Ipsative Assessment
B)Oblique Assessment
C)Practical Assessment
D)Therapeutic Assessment

Question 38

The central hypothesis of projective techniques is that clients will interpret ambiguous material in a way that reveals important and often ___________ aspects of their personality.

A)congruent
B)incongruent
C)negative .
D)positive
E)unconscious

Question 39

Which personality test examines dichotomies,such as Thinking - Feeling,that are thought to reflect personal preferences?

A)Rorschach Ink Blot Test
B)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
C)MMPI-2
D)Neo Personality Inventory

Question 40

The test in which a person is shown a picture and asked to make up a story about it is appropriately called a(n):

A)apperception test.
B)drawing test.
C)Rorschach test.
D)objective test.