PSYCH 3CC3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Validity Scale, Face Validity, Personality Disorder
13 Nov 2016
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Many people took some of these items and scored them for other purposes. The scale was designed to have empirical not face validity. Tests like the mmpi, there are certain obvious items that you know how to respond to for your benefit. People can also answer randomly on objective tests. People may stop paying attention/ interest too many items. And then there are people who would fake good or fake super good (no flaws at all) Others may exaggerate symptoms to make them look sicker. So important that we have validity scales. Designed to detect people not answering honestly or appropriately. Inattention, carelessness: problem reading, understanding questions, boredom, lack of motivation, faking good; faking bad. 3 validity scales: lie scale (l): 15 items to detect faking good. Sometimes i get so mad i want to cry (f) fake good. I do not like everyone i know (f) fake good: defensiveness scale (k): 30 items to detect more subtle defensiveness.
