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MMPI-2
- is
- developed
- type
- overall correct answers - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- Originally developed in 1943
- Standardized personality test/Objective personality tests
-The most widely used personality tests are administered simply using paper and pencil.
The most widely used of these tests is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).

Development
- is (2)
- designed to (2) correct answers - An empirically developed personality assessment inventory
- Atheoretical
- Designed to make inferences about typical behavior and thinking
- Designed to aid in the assessment (Dx) of psychological disorders

Development
- empirical keying
- steps (8) correct answers - empirical determination of items that differentiate groups of people.
Steps
1. Large pool of inventory items (~1000, 504 selected)
2. Comparison groups (724 "normals," 221 patients representing all existing conditions)
3. Patients removed from study if "doubt" existed about diagnosis
4. Subgroups of patients: Hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviant, paranoia,
schizophrenia, and hypomania
5. Administer 504 questions to all participants
6. Cross-validation with different sample
7. After original validation, two additional Clinical scales added
- Mf - intended to distinguish between homosexual and heterosexual men (approach was later
broadened)
- Si (1946) - items selected differentiated between college women who scored higher or lower on
Introversion - Extraversion scale of Minnesota T-S-E scale.
8. Validity Scale Development
?, L, F, K

Development of the MMPI-2
- date
- concerns (3)
- changes (3) correct answers - MMPI-2 (1989)
1. Concerns about convenience sample in original sample
White, 35, married, small town/rural, skilled/semi skilled trade, 8 years formal education
2. Concerns about item content (obsolete language, sexist language, grammatical errors)
3. Concern item pool lacked appropriate depth

, - 82 of original 550 items rewritten, 154 items added
- Tested on more diverse sample/restandardized
- Final version of MMPI-2, 567 items (for use with 18 year and older individuals)

Administration and scoring
- qualifications
- time required
- reading level
- admin correct answers - To administer an advanced degree in mental health, supervised testing
and psychopathology

- Time required: 1 to 1.5 hours to take

- Reading level required: 6th grade reading level

- Supervised administration

Basic scales consist of? (2) correct answers 1. Validity Scales
- Provides information about an individuals approach to testing and response style

2. Clinical Scales
- 10 scales designed to examine various dimensions of personality and psychopathology

Validity scales (10) correct answers 1. "Cannot Say"
2. VRIN
3. TRIN
4. F
5. Fb
6. FBS
7. Fp
8. L
9. K
10. S

Cannot say?
- is
- manual suggestion
- expert suggestion correct answers - The "?" scale is simply the number of omitted items
(including items answered both true and false).

- The MMPI-2 manual suggests that protocols with 30 or more omitted items should be
considered invalid and not interpreted.

- Other experts suggest interpreting with great caution protocols with more than 10 omitted items
and not to interpret at all those with more than 30 omitted items.

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