Deck 17: Personality Inventories

Question 1

Personality inventories usually measure a broader range of variables and are more carefully standardized than rating scales and checklists.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Designers of personality inventories have traditionally been more concerned than projectivists with the psychometric qualities of their instruments.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Personality inventories are usually more carefully standardized than rating scales and checklists, but they are also concerned with a narrower range of variables.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Respondents find it almost impossible to fake answers to a carefully-designed personality inventory.

Question 5

Special validation scoring keys are used to detect faking on some personality inventories.

Question 6

In ipsative scoring, a person's score on one scale of a personality inventory is affected by his or her scores on other scales.

Question 7

Special validation keys have been constructed to determine the concurrent and predictive validities of personality inventories.

Question 8

Acquiescence, social desirability, and other response sets do not cause as much difficulty on personality inventories as on projective tests.

Question 9

Scores on a particular scale of a personality inventory are likely to be related to scores on other scales of the inventory when the various scales of the inventory are ipsative in nature.

Question 10

Unlike the Woodworth Personal Data Sheet, the original Bernreuter Personality Inventory was a multiphasic instrument.

Question 11

Content-validated personality inventories may have either a theoretical or a non -theoretical foundation.

Question 12

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is to Jung as the Personality Research Form is to Murray.

Question 13

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is based on Henry Murray's need-press theory of personality types.

Question 14

Of the many personality inventories based on the results of factor analysis, the one having the smallest number of scoring categories is the Eysenck Personality Inventory.

Question 15

The most extensive series of factor-analyzed personality inventories was designed by R. B. Cattell.

Question 16

There is substantial research support for a five-factor conception of personality.

Question 17

The MMPI is a popular multiphasic personality inventory based on the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung.

Question 18

The most famous of all inventories of personality based on trait -factor theory is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

Question 19

"Neurotic triad," "conversion V," "psychotic tetrad,"and "paranoid valley" all refer to patterns of scores on the MMPI.

Question 20

The three vectors of the revised CPI are internality-externality, norm favoring versus norm questioning, and realization..

Question 21

The Personality Inventory for Children is somewhat unique in that the child?s behavior is reported by the parents.

Question 22

The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory is scored on both personality pattern scales and clinical syndrome scales.

Question 23

The first computer-based test interpretation program was designed to interpret responses to the MMPI.

Question 24

Interpretive reports provided by computers have been found to be at least as accurate as those provided by expert clinicians.

Question 25

There is a tendency to view computer-generated test reports as more valid than they actually are.

Question 26

Early personality inventories and projective techniques were designed primarily to

A) assist in the prediction of academic and vocational success.
B) detect and analyze psychopathological disorders.
C) study the structure and development of normal personality.
D) test certain propositions of psychoanalytic theory.

Question 27

Which of the following response sets would be most likely to cause difficulties of score interpretation on a true-false personality inventory with no validation keys?

A) acquiescence
B) extremeness
C) overcautiousness
D) social desirability

Question 28

The first standardized multiscore inventory was the

A) Bell Adjustment Inventory.
B) Bernreuter Personality Inventory.
C) California Test of Personality.
D) Woodworth Personal Data Sheet.

Question 29

Aaron Beck designed personality inventories to measure

A) anxiety.
B) depression.
C) hostility.
D) suicide ideation.
E) all of the above.

Question 30

Descriptive examples of inventories for diagnosing __________ are given in the text.

A) alcoholism
B) eating disorders
C) phobias
D) psychopathic personality
E) substance abuse

Question 31

A score of 32 on the Beck Depression Inventory would indicate a level of depression in the__________ range.

A) normal
B) mild-moderate
C) moderate-severe
D) extremely severe

Question 32

A personality inventory based on Carl Jung's theory of types was designed by

A) Guilford and Zimmerman.
B) Jackson and Messick.
C) Myers and Briggs.
D) Thurstone and Chave.

Question 33

The most comprehensive series of factor-analyzed personality inventories has been provided by

A) R. B. Cattell.
B) H. G. Eysenck.
C) J. P. Guilford.
D) L. L. Thurstone.

Question 34

Of the following, the Adult Personality Inventory is most closely related to the

A) CPI.
B) MMPI.
C) NEO-FFI.
D) NEO-PI-R.
E) 16PF.

Question 35

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is scored according to __________ theory of personality types.

A) Alfred Adler's
B) Carl Jung's
C) Cesare Lombroso's
D) Ernst Kretschmer's
E) William Sheldon's

Question 36

If a research psychologist wanted to conduct an experiment on four groups of people-neurotic introverts, neurotic extraverts, non-neurotic introverts, and nonneurotic extroverts-dividing the pool of subjects into these four groups could probably be accomplished most effectively by administering the __________ to the subjects.

A) Ascendance Submission Reaction Scale
B) Eysenck Personality Inventory
C) Personality Research Form
D) Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire

Question 37

The results of research by Goldberg (1980) and by Costa and McCrae (1986) indicate that the assessment of personality by means of paper-and-pencil inventories encompasses no more than __________ personality factors.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five
E) six

Question 38

In addition to Eysenck's extraversion-introversion and neuroticism (emotionality) factors, the most widely accepted five-factor model of personality includes the factors of

A) agreeableness, conscientiousness, and culture.
B) dominance, impulsiveness, and reflectiveness.
C) sociability, objectivity, and restraint.
D) warmth, intelligence, and ego strength.

Question 39

Which of the following is the "grandfather" of all criterion-keyed personality inventories?

A) CPI
B) MCMI
C) MMPI
D) PIC

Question 40

The most widely used personality inventory is the

A) California Test of Personality.
B) Edwards Personal Preference Schedule.
C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
D) Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.

Question 41

The MMPI was designed originally to differentiate between

A) delinquent and non-delinquent youths.
B) persons having different degrees of mild maladjustment.
C) mentally retarded and mentally ill individuals.
D) psychiatrically disordered and normal persons.

Question 42

Psychiatric patients typically have high scores on scales __________ of the MMPI or MMPI -2.

A) 2 and 7
B) 6 and 8
C) 1, 2, and 3
D) 6, 7 8, and 9

Question 43

In addition to nine clinical scales and a large number of other empirically-derived scales, the original version of the MMPI is scored on four __________ scales.

A) basic interest
B) general
C) response-set
D) validating

Question 44

Restandardization of the MMPI involved all of the following except

A) inclusion of content not represented in the original version.
B) provision of separate forms of the inventory for adults and adolescents.
C) provision of separate forms for men and women, blacks and whites.
D) revision and rewording of the language of existing items that were dated, awkward, or sexist.

Question 45

High scores on the Hs (1) and D (2) scales of the MMPI-2 are suggestive of

A) worry, anxiety, and concern over physical functioning.
B) histrionic tendencies and delusions.
C) a psychopathic personality
D) delusions and schizophrenia.

Question 46

When the standard scores on all clinical scales of the MMPI-2 are above 70, it is good evidence that

A) an error has been made in scoring the inventory, because the scores on MMPI scales are ipsative.
B) the respondent has a serious psychological problem of some kind.
C) the respondent is generally well-adjusted, with no psychopathological trends.
D) the respondent has just as many good qualities as bad qualities.

Question 47

The most extensively investigated of the empirically -derived personality inventories designed for normal people is the

A) California Psychological Inventory.
B) Minnesota Counseling Inventory.
C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
D) Minnesota Test of Personality.

Question 48

Which of the following is a "normal offspring" of the MMPI?

A) California Psychological Inventory
B) Omnibus Personality Inventory
C) Personal Orientation Inventory
D) Personality Research Form

Question 49

The three vectors developed for the revised CPI include all of the following except

A) norm favoring versus norm questioning
B) internality versus externality
C) need for achievement versus need for affection
D) realization

Question 50

Which of the following is not one of the three conceptual groups on which the third edition of the CPI is scored?

A) basic psychopathology scales
B) folk-concept measures
C) special purpose scales
D) three vectors

Question 51

In the role interpretation of the vector scores on the revised CPI,

A) alphas are enterprising, assertive, and outgoing
B) betas are cautious, conventional, and unassuming
C) gammas are clever, headstrong, progressive, and rebellious.
D) deltas are conflicted, extraverted, and adventurous

Question 52

Compared with other personality inventories, the Personality Inventory for Children is unique in that it

A) can be scored either by hand or by computer.
B) consists of forced-choice items.
C) has been both rationally and empirically validated.
D) is scored from responses given by an adult.

Question 53

The Personality Inventory for Children is based on the

A) California Psychological Inventory.
B) Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
D) 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire.

Question 54

The Millon Clinical Multi-axial Inventory was designed for the same target population as the

A) CPI.
B) MMPI.
C) PIC.
D) 16 PF.

Question 55

A major feature of the MCMI-III is that it helps in the diagnosis of

A) eating disorders.
B) personality disorders.
C) child psychopathology.
D) DSM-IV Axis VI disorders.

Question 56

All of the following inventories except the __________ were designed for the assessment of personality in "clinical" rather than "normal" populations.

A) Basic Personality Inventory
B) California Psychological Inventory
C) Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
D) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
E) Personality Assessment Inventory

Question 57

The Personality Assessment Inventory was designed to provide information for

A) clinical diagnosis and treatment.
B) educational diagnosis and training.
C) employee selection and placement.
D) detection and analysis of dishonesty.

Question 58

The most outstanding feature of the Personality Research Form and the Jackson Personality Inventory is the

A) careful validation and freedom from response sets.
B) provision for both hand and machine scoring.
C) sophistication of their construction methodology.
D) wide range of variables measured by them.

Question 59

Concerning the psychometric characteristics of computer-based scoring and interpretation services,

A) few of the programs have been adequately validated.
B) most of the programs are based on a sold theoretical or empirical foundation.
C) most of the programs have adequate reliability.
D) the majority of the programs have been standardized on representative samples.

Question 60

The first personality inventory to be scored and interpreted by a computer was the

A) Basic Personality Inventory.
B) Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
C) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
D) Personality Assessment Inventory.
E) 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire.

Question 61

Approximately __________ of the computer-based test interpretations for the MMPI-2 are likely to be inaccurate.

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 50%

Question 62

What are validation keys on personality inventories, and how are they used?

Question 63

Evaluate the effectiveness of factor analysis as a technique for constructing personality inventories.

Question 64

Differentiate between base rate scores, normative scores, and ipsative scores.

Question 65

Describe the construction of MMPI-2 and the various scales on which it is scored.

Question 66

Provide details of the process of coding and interpreting scores on the MMPI-2 scales.

Question 67

What three personality inventories were designed by D. N. Jackson and his associates. How were they constructed, and what do they measure?