Psych assessment

 It is smart because it has a computational capacity

According to the text, what makes a smartphone "smart"?

 the privacy of the subject of the assessment.

Smartphones that are re-purposed as tools of assessment contain safeguards to protect

 technical quality of a test or other tool of assessment.

 The term psychometric soundness refers to the 

behavioral observation

What tool of assessment is MOST useful in learning about the reaction of simulated juries to various presentations of evidence?

stress interview

A group-on-one interview during which the interviewee is purposely made uncomfortable is called a

PsycINFO

Which online data base is operated by the American Psychological Association?

test users

 In everyday practice, responsibility for appropriate test administration, scoring, and interpretation lies with:

three years

The Mental Measurements Yearbook is currently updated about every

consumer advocates

As described in your textbook, all of the following are parties to the assessment enterprise EXCEPT 

A. society at large. 

B. the test developer. 

C. the test user. 

D. consumer advocates

Who is a testtaker? 

Based on the discussion in your textbook, which Who? question with regard to the assessment enterprise is LEAST controversial? 

D. All of these

Testtakers differ in their approach to an assessment situation with regard to the extent that they 

A. have received prior coaching. 

B. view themselves as competent or incompetent. 

C. experience stress and discomfort. 

D. All of these

testtakers

Of the following parties to the assessment enterprise, which group would be LEAST likely to have read the Standards?

employer

In personnel assessment, psychological tests are used primarily for the benefit of the

an engineering psychologist 

Which type of psychologist designs effective and efficient products and environments for the home and workplace?

Tests in Print

A researcher wishes to consult a reference work that provides descriptions of tests, and not reviews of tests. Which reference source BEST suits this purpose?

The Mental Measurements Yearbook

A psychologist writing a journal article is looking for a critical review of an intelligence test that was published 4 years ago. Which of the following sources would be BEST to consult?

 society at large

Ultimately, which of the following parties to the assessment enterprise provides the guidance for determining what constitutes the fair use of tests in the hiring process?

a nominal scale.

Numbers are assigned to each player on the university basketball team. This use of numbers could BEST be characterized as

the middle of the distribution

 Measures of central tendency refer to which part of the frequency distribution?

+1.5

 A raw score of 82 coming from a distribution of scores with a mean of 76 and a standard of 4 is equal to a z score of: 

could have been expected to occur by chance alone one time or less in 100

A correlation coefficient that is significant at the p < .01 level 

validity

The term psychometric soundness is typically a reference to a test's reliability and