TOS Based psych assess

• Ipsative Scoring: testtaker's score on one scale within a test is compared to another scale within that same test, two unrelated constructs.
• Cumulative Model: testtaker obtains a measure of the level of the trait, suggesting high level in the trait being measured.
• Class Scoring/Category Scoring: testtaker's response earns credit toward placement in a particular class or category, with other testtakers whose pattern of responses is similar in some way.
• Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a self-administered, paper-and-pencil/online test composed of 344 statements for which the respondent must choose who true each is for him or her.
• Interpersonal Scales in Psychological Assessment #BLEPP include Dominance (DOM), Warmth (WRM).
• Psychological Assessment #BLEPP includes Clinical Scales such as Somatic Complaints (SOM), Anxiety (ANX), Anxiety-Related Disorders (ARD), Depression (DEP), Mania (MAN), Paranoia (PAI), Schizophrenia (SCZ), Borderline Features (BOR), and Antisocial Features (ANT).
• Treatment Scales in Psychological Assessment #BLEPP include Aggression (AGG), Suicidal Ideation (SUI), Stress (STR), and Nonsupport (NON).
• Behavioral/Externalizing Dysfunction (BXD) is a psychopathological syndrome that assesses psychopathological syndromes and provides information relevant for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and screening for psychopathology.
• Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey (GZTS) measures Personality Traits such as General Activity (G), Restraint (R), Ascendance (A), Sociability (S), Emotional Stability (E), Objectivity (O), Friendliness (F), Thoughtfulness (T), and Personal Relations (P).
• Edwards Personality Preference Schedule (EPPS) is an adult version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
• Thought Dysfunction (THD) is a psychopathological syndrome that assesses psychopathological syndromes and provides information relevant for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and screening for psychopathology.
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report inventory designed to identify a person’s personality type, strengths, and preferences.
• Yea-Saying is answering questions positively regardless of their content, which can distort the results of surveys.
• Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences includes Visual-Spatial, Linguistic-Verbal, Logical-Mathematical, Body-Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalistic Intelligences.
• Faking Good (Underreporting) is the act of attempting to appear better than is actually the case.
• Jungian Typology includes Extraverted Thinking, Introverted Thinking, Extraverted Feeling, Introverted Feeling, Extraverted Sensation, Introverted Sensation, Extraverted Intuition, and Introverted Intuition.
• Malingering is the deliberate feigning of an illness or disability to achieve a particular desired outcome.
• Spearman's Two-Factor Theory of Intelligence includes General (g) Intelligence and Specific (s) Ability.
• Cattell's theory of Intelligence includes Crystallized and Fluid Intelligence.
• Self-Deception is the process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument.
• Nay-Saying is answering questions negatively of their content, which can distort results of surveys, questionnaires, and similar instruments.
• Faking Bad (Overreporting) is the act of appearing worse than actually is the case.
• Thurstone identified seven primary mental abilities: Verbal Comprehension, Word Fluency, Number Facility, Spatial Visualization, Associative Memory, Perceptual Speed, and Reasoning.
• The Hand Test is used to measure action tendencies, particularly acting out and aggressive behavior, in adults and children.
• The Children’s Apperception Test is based on the idea that animals engaged in various activities were useful in stimulating projective storytelling by children.
• - used to assess the intelligence of children aged 5 to 12 years old by measuring their ability to associate words with each other.
• The Apperceptive Personality Test (APT) attempts to address the criticisms of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and introduces objectivity in the scoring system.
• The Word Association Test (WAT) is used to assess the intelligence of children aged 5 to 12 years old by measuring their ability to associate words with each other.
• The Rorschach Inkblot Test involves subjects looking at 10 ambiguous inkblot images and describing what they see in each one.
• The Thematic Apperception Test involves subjects interpreting provocative yet ambiguous pictures about which they are asked to tell a story.
• Projective Tests include the Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Apperception Test, and Children’s Apperception Test.
• The scale was originally created in age scale and point scale format.
• The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales were developed in 1908 to identify mentally disabled children in Paris.
• The scale includes two routing tests to direct or route the examinee to a particular level of questions.
• The first edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales lacks representativeness of the standardization sample.
• The scale provides behavioral observations during administration.
• The Wechsler Intelligence Scales address the weakness in Stanford-Binet and could also assess functioning in people with brain injury.
• The 1960 revision of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales had a Point Scale, which was the test was organized into subtests by category of item, not by age.
• The Wechsler Intelligence Scales have subtests: Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Reasoning, Working Memory, Processing Speed, and Visual Spatial.
• The scale was co-normed with Bender-Gestalt and Woodcock-Johnson Tests.