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13 Cards in this Set
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L Scale
(Lie Scale) |
High Score = "Lie, look good" attempt to make yourself look good
Low Score = openness in responding or exaggeration of negative characteristics or independence. |
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F Scale
(inFrequency Scale) |
Extreme High Score >100 = Malingering
High Score = eccentricity, psychosis, random responding, tremendous distress, cry for help Low Score = social conformity or absence of psychopathology |
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K Scale
(Correction/Guardedness Scale) |
High Score = desire to fake good, high defensiveness, poor tx prognosis
Low Score = excessive openness, self-criticism, or desire to Fake Bad |
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Cannot Say Scale
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High Score = reading difficulties, indecisiveness, distractability, defensiveness
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How is the MMPI scored?
What is the mean and sd? What is considered a significant score? |
1. with t scores
2. mean is 50, sd is 10 3. score at or above 65 or 1.5 sd above mean considered significant |
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MMPI Song
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Ten Introverts
Nine Hypomanics Eight Schizophrenics Seven Psychasthenics Six Paranoiacs Five Masculine Women! Four Psychopaths Three Hysterics Two Depressives And a Hypochondriac. |
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A high _______ Scale score may indicate a lack of insight into one’s own behavior, denial, an attempt to create a favorable impression, or the tendency to answer items “false.”
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Lie
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A low _____ Scale score may be the result of answering items as “true”
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Lie
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Acute psychological distress (d.) is associated with an extremely low score on the__________ Scale
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K (Correction)
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prosopagnosia is believed to be due to damage to the __________________
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bilateral occipitotemporal area
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The ______________ divides the parietal and frontal lobes
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central sulcus
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MMPI-A is used for ages:
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14 to 18; use "A" for 18 year old high school students
A tends to underpathologize and 2 overpathologize 18 year olds. better to be conservative |
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MMPI-2 used for ages:
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18 and older
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