PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Joseph Wolpe, Systematic Desensitization
6 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Backlash against testing: poor psychometrics, behaviour therapy. Why infer when you can observe: humanist. Consequence of backlash: improved standardization, inclusive test items, proliferation of specific test. Understanding for who tests are valid for: revision of popular test. Iq tests: improved guidelines for test users (cid:1) (cid:1) Say one word and have client say a word after. Word association: used this to uncover unconscious process, a pause may reflect resistance, but there"s no science behind it. Response to encountering ambiguous inkblots is telling of personality. Tell a story about what"s happening in picture: objective self-report. Compare the patient with their normal family scores. Created by hathaway & mckinley (cid:1) (cid:1) Jung: personality can be inferred through word association. Cattell: mental tests to infer intelligence. Kraepelin: first classification system, 2-diagnostic system. Rorschach and tat: projective for personality testing, aptitude test. Structured interviews: 1990"s, based on dsm criteria. Lighter witmer: first to term clinical psychology.
