The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory HW

For this assignment, you will review a major personality measure, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). Your review will consist of two parts:

For this part, you will prepare a brief overview of the history and development of the MMPI-2 (approximately 1 page). Address:
type of psychological test
a brief description of the instrument
the administration, scoring and interpretation
a statement about the reliability and validity
any social/cultural/ethical issues pertinent to the test.
In this part, you will evaluate the test’s validity. Be sure to address:
Is the MMPI-2 high or low on content validity and face validity? Explain why.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a test with high face validity?
Discuss the four Validity scales and how each one assesses validity.
Be sure to support your conclusions with information drawn from the online content, the textbook, and other credible, scholarly sources to substantiate the points you are making. Apply APA standards to writing and citations to your work.

Good resources would also include Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print.

Launch the online library.
Click on Behavioral Sciences under Browse By Subject on the library homepage.
Scroll through the alphabetical list of databases and click on Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print to launch the database.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.