PSYC 406 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Face Validity, Abundant Number, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 406
• Professor: David Vachon

Document Summary

Items selected through the logical-content approach: had 2 more additional features; first, items endorsed by 25% or more of a normal sample in the scored direction were excluded from the test. This technique attempted to reduce the number of false positives. Bernreuter used for subjects as young as. Fake good by avoiding pathological items: the clinical scales were designed to identify psychological disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, the content scales consist of groups of items that are empirically related to a specific content area, purpose: The purpose of the mmpi and mmpi-2 is to distinguish normal and abnormal groups of individuals. Specifically, the test was designed to aid in the diagnosis or assessment of the major psychiatric or psychological disorders. The mmpi requires at least a 6th-grade reading ability while the mmpi-2 requires at least an 8th-grade reading ability: original development of the scales: The criterion groups; hypochondriacs, depressives, hysterics, psychopathic deviates, paranoids, psychasthenics, schizophrenics and hypomanics.