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Prevalence rates |
Base Rates |
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The use of com puters to administer (and possibly interpret) responses to clinical interviews, IQ tests, self- report inventories, and so on. |
Computer Based Assessments |
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The interpretive profiles generated by computer scoring programs for various psychological tests.The use of such profiles has been the subject ofintense debate. |
computer-based test interpretations |
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An approach to test construction in which scales are developed based on a specific theory, refined using factor analysis and other procedures, and validated by showing (through empirical study) that individuals who achieve certain scores behave in ways that could be predicted by their scores. |
Construct Validity Approach |
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The process by which one ensures that a test will adequately measure all ,aspects of the construct of interest. |
Content Validation |
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include carefully defining all relevant aspects of the construct, consulting experts, having judges assess the relevance of each potential item, and evaluating the psychometric properties of each potential item. |
Content Validation |
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An approach to test development that emphasizes the selection of items that discriminate between normal individuals and members of different diagnostic groups, regardless of whether the items appear theoretically relevant to the diagnoses of interest. |
Empirical Criterion Keying |
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A statistical method often used in test construction to determine whether potential items are or are not highly related to each other. |
Factor Analytic Approach |
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A comprehensive model of personality that comprises the dimensions of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness as well as six facets belonging to each dimension. |
Five Factor Model |
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In the context of projective testing, the phenomenon by which certain test responses become associated with specific personality characteristics. |
Illusory Correlation |
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These responses come to be viewed as signs of the trait in question and may be given undue weight when interpreting the test. |
Illusory Correlation |
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The best known and most widely used of the sentence completion techniques, consisting of 40 sentence stems. |
Incomplete Sentences Blank |
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The extent to which a scale score provides information about a person’sbehavior, personality features, psychopathologyfeatures that is not provided by other measures. |
Incremental Validity |
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A measure of psychopathology that was developed using the empirical criterion keying approach. |
MMPI -2 |
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consists of 567 true–false items and provides scores on ten clinical scales,seven validity scales, and several content andsupplementary scales. |
MMPI-2 |
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usually based on an analysis of the entire profile rather than on selected scores. |
MMPI -2 |
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has been used for many different purposes across multiple settings, and it remains one of the primary self-report inventories of personality and psychopathology. |
MMPI-2 |
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Personality assessment tools in which the examinee responds to a standard set of questions or statements using a fixed set of options (e.g., true or false, dimensionalratings). |
Objective Personality Measures |
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Psychological testing techniques that use people’s responses to ambiguous test stimuli to make judgments about theiradjustment–maladjustment. Proponents believe that examinees “project” themselves onto the stimuli, thus revealing unconscious aspects of themselves. |
Projective Techniques |
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A self-report measure of the FFM thatconsists of 240 statements, each of which is rated on a 5-point scale. |
Revised NEO-Personality Inventory (NEO- PI-R) |
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This test yields scores on all fivedomains of the FFM (Neuroticism, Extraversion,Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness)as well as the six facets corresponding to eachdomain. |
Revised NEO-Personality Inventory (NEO- PI-R) |
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A projective technique that interprets people’s responses to a series of ten inkblots. |
Rorschach |
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A simple projective technique in which people are asked to complete, in writing, a number of sentence stems (e.g., “I often believe …”). |
sentence completion method |
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The situation in which different decisions or predictions are made for members of two groups, even when they obtain the same score on an instrument. |
test bias |
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A projective technique that purports to reveal patients’ personality characteristics by interpreting the stories they produce in response to a series of pictures |
Thematic Apperception Test |
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The extent to which a particular cutoff score accurately classifies people as either possessing or not possessing the disorder or trait in question. |
validity of cutoff scores (thresholds) |
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Test scales that attempt to shed light on the respondent’s test-taking attitudes and motivations (e.g., to present themselves in an overly favorable light, to exaggerate their problems or symptoms, to engage in random responding). |
Validity Scales |
