IQ
a. Verbal Comprehension Index
b. Processing Speed Index
c. Perceptual Reasoning Index
d. Working Memory index
d. Working memory index
Reflects auditory recall, short term memory, and working memory.
Register, maintain, manipulate.
Age and reading level for MMPI 2?
Age 18+
Reading level in manual: 8th grade.
Reading level on website: 5th grade
Age requirement for the Rorscach?
5 and up.
When would you administer a WIAT over a WAIS or WISC?
Which of the following assessments was normed on a clinical sample?
a. MMPI-2 RF
b. MCMI
c. Rorschach
d. Neo
b. MCMI
What WISC subtest is not included in the WAIS?
Picture Span
Idenfity the exception rules for the following ages:
13-14:
18:
13-14: can take the MMPI-A if they have a reading level of 6th grade or above and show general maturity required
18: an independent 18yo in college living by themselves should take the MMPI2, and a dependent 18yo living at home should take the MMPI-A
The Rorschach used to be scored using the ________ system, and now uses the _______ system.
Exner, R-PAS
Ronald Stolberg walks into your private practice and tells you he wants to learn more about himself. He does not present with any clinical conditions nor does he require any kind of evaluation, he is simply curious. What test should you administer?
NEO
Identify the difference between the criterion group and reference group on the original MMPI.
Criterion group: patients who represented major psychiatric categories
Reference group: normal individuals visiting patients in hospitals in the 1930's
What are the age requirements for the following intelligence measures?
a. WAIS-IV
b. WISC-V
c. WIAT-IV
a. WAIS: 16-90
b. WISC: 6-16
c. WIAT: 4-50
Mean/SD/Cutoff for clinical Significance on the MMPI 2?
Mean: 50
SD: 10
Clinical Cutoff: 65+
After how many responses do you prompt your examinee? How many for pull?
1 response for prompt, 5 responses for pull.
What clinical assessments aid in diagnosis, but should never be used as diagnostic tools by themselves?
PAI, MMPI, MCMI
You are assessing a 7-year-old boy who is afraid of authority due to childhood trauma. His speech is restricted and he is having a hard time giving information; you have already pulled 4 times on the Rorschach. What test should you administer next?
Human figure drawings; assesses intellect and emotional problems in children when kids are anxious about administration, are reluctant to speak, or may have expressive language difficulties.
Explain the reverse-order rule for the block design subtest.
Participant is given item 5 and item 6 as trial items. If either are incorrect, examiner should go back to item 1 and continue through item 4 until they get two consecutive items correct, then resume at item 7.
Match the following definitions with their validity scale
Word bank: VRIN, TRIN, L,F, and K
1. Avoiding honesty, painting a picture of themselves as honest, moral, and conforming
2. Am I willing to endorse items in a reliable manner?
3. Under reporting, defensive of symptoms
4. Nay say, yay say
5. Endorsement of infrequent items
1. L (lie scale)
2. VRIN, consistency scale
3. K scale
4. TRIN
5. F, over reporting.
What is the purpose of the clarification phase?
To resolve coding ambiguities
How does an individual produce high convergent validity across projective and self-report measures?
By being open, honest, engaged, and non-defensive across the entire battery of tests.
Assign the following assessments to their appropriate test metric: base rates vs. T-scores
1. MCMI
2. MMPI
3. MMPI-2
4. WAIS
5. PAI
6. NEO
1. Base rates
2. t-scores
3. t-scores
4. base rates
5. t-scores
6. t-scores
Match the following subtests to the index they measure:
1. Arithmetic
2. Block Design
3. Information
4. Visual Puzzles
5. Coding
6. Similarities
7. Digit Span
8. Matrix Reasoning
9. Vocabulary
10. Symbol Search
11. Figure Weights
1. Working Memory
2. Perceptual Reasoning
3. Verbal Comprehension
4. Perceptual Reasoning
5. Processing Speed
6. Verbal Comprehension
7. Working Memory
8. Perceptual Reasoning
9. Verbal Comprehension
10. Processing Speed
11. Perceptual Reasoning
Match the following definitions to their appropriate clinical scales.
1. general denial of psychological or emotional problems, discomfort in social situations, strong need to be liked.
2. Elevated mood, accelerated speech and motor activity, irritability, flight of ideas, and brief periods of depression
3. Sensitivity to environment, suspiciousness
4. Preoccupied with physical functioning
5. Excessuve anxiety/worry, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, negative self-evaluation
6. Independent, dislikes rules, problems with trust and intimacy
1. Hy (Hysteria)
2. Ma (Hypomania)
3. Pa (Paranoia)
4. Hy (Hypochondriasis)
5. Pt (Psychasthenia)
6. Pd (Psychopathic deviate)
When do you code Dd 99?
When two or more detail areas are used as a singular object.
Thaddeus Camlin comes into your office and reports the following about his son:
- decreased motivation, isolation from friends and family, impulsivity and increased trouble with school authorities, stole from his mother's purse, inability to identify how he's feeling, low self-confidence.
As a clinician, design a battery of assessments and explain your reasoning.
Extended response
Equivalent to a sad/happy, or a a pleasant/unpleasant dimension of affect. Ex: I cry easily, I feel blue often.