PSY 242 Chapter 3: PSY 242 CHAPTER 3
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Standardization important way to improve validity and reliability (prevents extraneous factors from affecting people"s responses) standardization of both the administration and the interpretation of the test. 4) observation of the individual"s intellectual functioning: note if the person seems appropriately oriented to time, place, and person structured interview used to gather information about individuals; format of questions/interview is standardized and scored with concrete criteria. Symptom questionnaires symptom questionnaire quick way to determine a person"s symptoms. Beck depression inventory (bdi) one of most common questionnaires used to asses symptoms of depression. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi) most widely used person- ality inventory; present with sentences describing social and moral attitudes, psy- chological states, behaviors, and physical conditions and ask for a true/false/can"t say response to each. Intelligence tests intelligence tests used to get a sense of an individual"s intellectual strengths and weaknesses (esp. when mental retardation or brain damage is suspected); also used to identify gifted" children and children with intellectual difficulties.
