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1. PERSONALITY TESTS

2. Personality tests are systematic assessments that aim to measure various aspects of someone’s personality and behaviors, such as interpersonal skills , values , temperament, introversion and extroversion, what drives them to succeed and more.

3. Personality tests are designed to systematically elicit information about a person's motivations, preferences, interests, emotional make-up, and style of interacting with people and situations.

4. Personality measures can be in the form of interviews , in-basket exercises, observer ratings, or self-report inventories (i.e., questionnaires) .

5. 2 TYPES OF PERSONALITY TEST

6. Self-report inventories involve having test-takers read questions and then rate how well the question or statement applies to them. One of the most common self-report inventories is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) .

7. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) The MMPI was developed in the 1930s to help mental health professionals evaluate people with psychiatric disorders. It is widely used today in both clinical and non-clinical settings.

8. It asks a series of true/false questions that are designed to provide a clinical profile of an individual.  Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

9. The purpose of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is to assess and measure various aspects of an individual’s personality, mental health, and psychopathology , providing valuable insights for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and research in fields such as psychology, psychiatry, and counseling .

10. The MMPI is considered a protected psychological instrument, meaning it can only be given and interpreted by a psychologist trained to do so.

11. The MMPI-2 contains 567 test items (TRUE OR FALSE) and takes approximately 60 to 90 minutes to complete. The MMPI-2-RF contains 338 questions and takes around 35 to 50 minutes to finish. The MMPI-3 contains 335 self-report items and takes 25 to 35 minutes to administer by computer and 35 to 40 minutes to administer by paper and pencil .

12. 2. Projective tests involve presenting the test-taker with a vague scene, object, or scenario and then asking them to give their interpretation of the test item.

13. Projective test   personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing hidden feelings, impulses, and desires

14. 1. Rorschach Inkblot Test   projective test that employs a series of symmetrical inkblot cards that are presented to a client by a psychologist in an effort to reveal the person’s unconscious desires, fears, and struggles

15. The Rorschach inkblot test is a type of projective assessment in which subjects look at 10 ambiguous inkblot images and describe what they see in each one. The therapist then interprets the person's answers .

16. Administration of the Rorschach Inkblot Test There are 10 official inkblots in the Rorschach test, each printed on separate white cards. Five inkblots are black and gray; two are black, gray, and red; and three are multicolored without any black.

17. The test involves certain steps : Present: The examiner will give you one card at a time and ask you, “What might this be?” 2. Respond: You’re free to interpret the ambiguous image however you want. You can take however long you like to interpret each card and can give as many responses as you want. You can also hold the cards in any position, such as upside down or sideways

18. 3. Record: Your examiner records everything you say, no matter how trivial. They’ll note the time taken for each response, the position the card is being held, your emotional expressions , and other metrics during the test. 4. Confirm: After you go through all the inkblots once, the examiner will take you through them a second time. The goal of this is not to get new information but to help the examiner see what you see. They’ll ask you to identify where you see what you originally saw and what features make it look like that.

19. Scoring The clinician applies scores to your responses using a coding system, known as the Exner system. The scoring system is time-consuming and complex . The system is quite difficult to learn, requiring in depth study. Usually an entire course, requiring the reading of several full books, is necessary to be able to administer and interpret a Rorschach test appropriately.

20. Interpretation Interpreting Rorschach inkblot tests requires a high level of knowledge, skill, and training. The interpretation is also done with extensive supervision. Some professionals might use a computer system to analyze your scores, but this may not be reliable enough on its own. That’s why many use both the standard test and computer-assisted scoring methods.

21. The Rorschach test is used in psychotherapy and counseling, although not as frequently as in the past. Practitioners use it to gain qualitative information about their patients, helping them learn more about the patients' personalities, emotional functioning, and thought patterns.

22. 2. Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB) developed by Julian Rotter in 1950 (recall his theory of locus of control, covered earlier in this chapter). 

23. Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB)   projective test that is similar to a word association test in which a person completes sentences in order to reveal their unconscious desires, fears, and struggles.

24. There are three forms of this test for use with different age groups: the school form, the college form, and the adult form. The tests include 40 incomplete sentences that people are asked to complete as quickly as possible . The average time for completing the test is approximately 20 minutes, as responses are only 1–2 words in length.

25. This test is similar to a word association test, and like other types of projective tests, it is presumed that responses will reveal desires, fears, and struggles. The RISB is used in screening college students for adjustment problems and in career counseling ( Holaday , Smith, & Sherry, 2010; Rotter & Rafferty 1950).