The manual is straightforward and easy to follow. Split into six chapters, the first three cover general information about the test, administration and interpretation. Whereas, chapters four through six focus on the normative sample, the test’s reliability and the test’s validity. Appendixes A-C are used to convert the subtest raw scores to scaled scores, the subtest raw scores to percentile ranks, and to convert the sums of the scaled scores to indexes and percentile ranks, respectively. Appendix D consists of an example of a scored RIPA-G:2 subtest that is helpful to the examiner’s understanding of the test.…
4. In which sentence are the italicized words a dependent clause? (A dependent clause can't stand as a…
Spitzer, R.L., J.B.W. Williams, M. Gibbon, and A.B. First. 1988. Instruction Manual for the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID, 6/1/88 Revision). New York: Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute.…
The test is used to examine how a person functions emotionally and the characteristics of their personality. It has also been used to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients were reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The goal of the test is to reveal the basic personality factors, such as, motivation, response tendencies, affectivity and personal/interpersonal perceptions. The argument is that the person will see things based on who they are as a person, their upbringing and their life choices and other things like; necessities, conflicts, aspiration. It is believed that if you have bad characteristics you will see darker more sinful things like death, blood, sex or something threatening and good characteristics would see more ordinary things. Rorschach would use a specific system called the Exner system to analyse the results and score them based on how the person had interpreted each inkblot image, and if the score was high then it wasn’t a good…
Boyle, J. G., Matthews, G., & Saklofske, H. D. (2008). Personality Measurement and Testing (2nd ed.). California, USA: SAGE Publishing.…
The Rorschach Inkblot test is one of the most iconic psychological tests that is shown on television and media worldwide. I believe this wide spread media has called into question the inkblot test’s clinical utility, reliability and usage in the field of psychology. This paper will summarize and critique four articles, two that are against the Rorschach and challenge its usage in different aspects of psychology and two that are for the Rorschach and believe that it adds value and has appropriate inter-rater reliability standards.…
Sweating under this heavy load, Brain staggered up the stairs to his apartment. He felt as though his legs were crumbling beneath him.…
Blais MA, Smallwood P, Groves JE, Rivas-Vazquez RA. Personality and personality disorders. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Biederman J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; (2008):ch. 39.…
People walk around every day assessing the personalities of other people, deciding whether their personality compatible with others or not. This is relevant in situations such as new relationships, employers screening applicants for grad schemes or open positions and schools trying to find out a child’s optimum way of learning in order to achieve the best results. The fact that we have different personalities suit us to different things. Funder (1997) believed that personality refers to our individual patterns of behaviours, thoughts and emotions as well as the psychological mechanisms which cause these patterns. Although Feist and Feist (2009) argued that no one definition of personality is acceptable for all personality psychologists, but…
Lilenfield et al (2000) (p121) question the relevance of the majority of Rorschach indexes to outcomes of interest- in other words the test itself may not be particularly relevant to everyday life and a diversity of scoring schemes has limited their applicability and this could also account for poor inter- judge reliability, however Groth-Marant (2009) suggest the appeal of one projective test (the Rorschach) could be its’ non-technical nature (decoding responses to ambiguous shapes), its’ ability to by-pass conscious resistance, resistance to faking and ease of administration. That said, Groth-Marant (2009) note about the tests’ psychometric properties – overall demonstrated reliabilities between .80 and .85 (Parker, 1983 as cited in Groth-Marant, 2009), median inter-scorer correlations of .82 to .97 depending on data set used, and that recent meta-analyses support its’ validity – for example, meta-analyses by Atkinson, Quarington, Alp and Cyr (1986), Parker (1983), Parker, Hanson and Hunsley (1988) and Weiner (1986) indicated validity ranging from .4 to .5. Ultimately, the contribution of psychodynamic theory may be not what it brings to personality assessment as a mainstream (diagnostic) tool but as an alternative that through psychoanalysis works beyond question ( Galatzer-Levy, Bacharach, Skolnikoff, & Waldron,…
Prerequisite Course Required: Psych 101 - Introduction to Psychology, Psych 107 – Statistical methods, and English 110…
In this article, author James Baldwin discusses the significant role that language plays and how it can affect our everyday lives. He explains that language is seen to be the most important tool for all things. Although we all have different lifestyles to communicate, language is the key factor when attempting to explain and thus control our circumstances. Black English stemmed from a lifestyle that could only survive by creating their own form of the English language.…
References: Ammerman, R. T. (2006). Comprehensive Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Volume 3. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.…
Psychological tests come in many shapes and forms; all of them are set to measure the performance of the person taking them. Reliability and validity take place in testing, both are important but it should be noted there could be no validity without reliability. The reliability and validity of psychological testing affect the field because the psyche of the human mind is too intricate to be fully understood.…
When analyzing a child for RAD, researchers may request that the children take a self-report test to analyze the child’s personality characteristics (Hall & Geher, 2003, p. 145). Unlike children without RAD who usually score high in empathy on personality tests, children with RAD scored poorly in this area; however, these children’s scores in self-monitoring were quite high (Mikic & Terradas, 2014, p. 37). Additionally, psychologists often require parents to complete questionnaires about their child’s behavior and personality characteristics (Hall & Geher, 2003, p. 145). Psychologists can then use the child’s self-report test and the parents’ questionnaires to better diagnose RAD. Often times, the child’s answers on his self-report test contradict the parents’ responses on their questionnaires, which has suggested that children with RAD will often report their personality characteristics in excessively positive ways (Hall & Geher, 2003, p. 145). After comparing the self-report tests of children with RAD to those without the disorder, psychologists have found that the children with RAD often have significantly more behavioral problems than children without this disorder (Hall & Geher, 2003, p. 145). While most of the research previously done on RAD was quantitative in nature, researchers are beginning to use empirical research in addition to the quantitative research…