MMPI
Psychological testing instrument
MMPI is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a standardized psychological test used to assess personality traits and psychopathology.
Developed in the 1930s, it remains one of the most widely used clinical assessment tools.
The test presents hundreds of true-false statements and generates scores across multiple scales measuring traits like depression, anxiety, and social introversion: The MMPI flagged elevated scores on the paranoia scale.
Characteristic mental patterns
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- testEvaluative examination
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
psychometric · evaluation · questionnaire · diagnosis · psychological · profile · norms · validity
Identification of illness
- psychopathologyStudy of mental disorders
- disordersAbnormal physical or mental conditions
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- malingeringFabricating symptoms for gain
defensiveness · pathology · psychiatric · assessment · inpatient · outpatient · treatment · planning
First or inventive
- revisedChanged after reconsideration
- restructuredRearranged fundamentally
- adolescentPerson in puberty
- McKinleyScottish-Irish surname
Hathaway · Butcher · restandardization · update · modernized · normative · sample · booklet
Protective care or control
- competencySufficient ability for something
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- litigationLegal dispute process
- criminalPerson who breaks laws
court · expert · witness · malingering · credibility · fitness · parole · risk
Quality of being sound
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
- depressionProlonged low state
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
- paranoiaIrrational persecution fears
schizophrenia · hypomania · psychopathic · masculinity · femininity · social · introversion · content
personality
Characteristic mental patterns
clinical · psychometric · evaluation · questionnaire · diagnosis · psychological · profile · norms · validity · reliability
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- psychopathologyStudy of mental disorders
- disordersAbnormal physical or mental conditions
- symptomsIndicators of disease
malingering · defensiveness · pathology · psychiatric · assessment · inpatient · outpatient · treatment · planning · differential
original
First or inventive
- revisedChanged after reconsideration
- restructuredRearranged fundamentally
- adolescentPerson in puberty
Hathaway · McKinley · Butcher · restandardization · update · modernized · normative · sample · booklet · computerized
custody
Protective care or control
- competencySufficient ability for something
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- litigationLegal dispute process
criminal · court · expert · witness · malingering · credibility · fitness · parole · risk · evaluation
validity
Quality of being sound
- clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
- depressionProlonged low state
- hysteriaUncontrollable emotional excess
paranoia · schizophrenia · hypomania · psychopathic · masculinity · femininity · social · introversion · content · supplementary
MMPIRorschach test
Projective personality assessment using ambiguous images