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This is a 12 page paper that provides an overview of psychological testing. Various tests and their respective validity are examined. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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of acceptance and widespread usage primarily because of its general applicability, and this degree of applicability is made possible entirely by the fact that the MMPI employs a variety of
different scales upon which individual responses are measured. These include the content and component scales, the PSY-5 scales, and the supplementary scales. The content and component scales are measurement scales
that examine specific components of potential abnormal psychosocial tendencies, enabling the psychologist to look not just at broad tendencies, but also at specific aspects of those tendencies, in detail. For
instance, when administering the MMPI to adolescents, a psychological can use the content and component scales to look at the specific components of adolescent depression (dysphoria, self-deprecation, lack of drive,
suicidal ideation), adolescent health concerns (gastrointestinal health, neurological health), alienation (being misunderstood, social isolation, interpersonal skepticism), bizarre mentation (psychotic symptomatology, paranoid ideation), anger (explosive behavior, irritability), cynicism (misanthropic beliefs, interpersonal
suspiciousness), adolescent conduct (acting-out, antisocial, negative peer group influences), low self-esteem (self-doubt, interpersonal submissiveness), and so on (Sherwood, Ben-Porath, & Williams, 1997, pp. 42-48). The PSY-5 scales, on the
other hand, are based upon the personality theory that states that there are five core factors of human personality. When the MMPI uses this scale, an individuals responses are judged
across five key dimensions that correspond to aspects of personality, including negative emotionality (NEGE), psychoticism (PSYC), introversion (INTR), disconstraint (DISC), and aggressiveness (AGGR) (University of Minnesota, 2012). In addition,
there are also supplementary scales that can be utilized when one needs the MMPI to analyze issues such as self-perception of substance abuse, or degree of anxiety, or repression. These
scales include the Es scale, which measures the strength of ones ego, OH, which measures overcontrolled hostility (a matter of repression), A, a scale for anxiety, and so on (Greene,
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