PsyAssess Review

Julie took the Raven’s Progressive Matrices in January.

She is to retake it as part of another psychological assessment. What month should she retake the test?

July

Which test measures the Big 5 personality traits and 6 facets for each major dimension?

NEO Personality Inventory

The process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena.

Measurement

Andrea was checking the test of a client she had and she noticed that the client answered ‘yes’ or ‘true’ to all items regardless of its content. What was exhibited by the client?

Acquiescence bias

Lennon wishes to conduct an experiment on priming. He sets two groups of participants: one that will receive the priming tool and the other will not. What do you call the group that will be receiving the priming tool?

Experimental group

In psychometrics, the ideal of a test that is devoid of the influence of any particular culture and therefore does not favor people from any culture.

Culture-free intelligence test

What is obtained from a client or patient before starting a psychological assessment?

Informed consent

Darius is developing a test that uses a 5-point scale with 1 meaning “strongly disagree” and 5 being “strongly agree”. What type of scale is he developing?

Likert scale

Two or more versions or forms of the same test where, for each form, the means and variances of observed test scores are equal.

Parallel forms

In creating the psychological assessment report of Gregor, the psychologist related his test scores with the designated population. What is referred to as the designated population where individual test scores are compared to?

Norm

Chie is a clinical psychologist. One day, her friend referred her son to her for a psychological assessment. What should Chie do?

Refer the client to another psychologist

When the code of ethics in the practice of psychology is in conflict with the law, which of the two should prevail?

Law

Danica wants to conduct a research study on understanding the customs of the Dumagat community in Norzagaray, Bulacan. Which of the following is the best method for her to gather data?

Participant observation

Which ethical principle does recognizing humans’ “inherent worth” fall under?

Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples

Which of the following is NOT an approach to assessment?

Observational tests

Why does one conduct an intake interview?

To gain relevant background information about the client and their presenting

Trina has completed conducting the intake interview and has an idea of the signs and symptoms of the client she handled. What should she do next?

Prepare a test battery

Which of the following determines internal psychological state without allowing the patient to filter their thoughts?

Projective test

Darwin is a clinical psychologist who gave treatment options to his client. Is the client obligated to follow them?

No, because requiring the client to follow treatment options is a breach in their autonomy

Irene is dealing with a client who does not have normal cognitive functioning. She wishes to administer a cognitive ability test as part of her test battery. Which of the following is most appropriate to measure the cognitive ability of the client?

Culture fair test

A group of participants were tested for their IQ scores. After a month, they took the same test again. What should be the statistical tool that should be employed to the scores to establish test-retest reliability?

Correlation

Daphnie’s professor is requiring their class to have their item pool be rated by at least five registered psychometricians or registered psychologists. What does the professor wish their students to establish by doing this?

Inter-rater reliability

Enrico is taking a test with this specific item: “Who was the US president at the time of World War II?”. What is the issue with the test he is answering taking into consideration that Enrico is a Filipino?

Cultural appropriateness

Which of the following measures one’s susceptibility to learn?

Aptitude test

Which of the following is a test for measuring visual-motor integrative functioning?

Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test

Which of the following is a test for measuring general intellectual functioning in children?

Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children

What must be done in order to establish comfortability and trust between client and clinician before psychological assessment?

Rapport

What happens when someone deviates from using the prescribed script while administering a standardized test?

The validity of the test conducted is affected

Which of the following measure’s the knowledge that one has accumulated through the years?

Intelligence test

What is the advantage of a psychometrician being familiar with the test they are administering?

Ensures that the test results will be accurately scored and interpreted

A client was administered a test battery of five tests for psychological testing. During the third test, the clinician noticed that the client quickly finished the test. What could have been the reason for this?

The client is growing bored with the testing process

What is the correct sequence for the psychological assessment process?

I. Score and interpret the results
II. Determine the test battery
III. Administer the tests
IV. Conduct an intake interview
V. Produce the psychological assessment report

IV,II,III,I,V

All are ways in which a mental health professional can develop and maintain competence, except:

a. Attend seminars and workshops
b. Read latest research and journal articles
c. Read through updated test manuals
d. None of the above

None of the above

Angie referred his son Angelo to a clinical psychologist to undergo psychological assessment to confirm his ADHD working diagnosis. Which of the following should be obtained?

Assent

In which of the following situations is the breach of confidentiality not necessary?

When the practitioner is conversing with another professional

What is wrong with the statement, “A test that measures depression measures sadness”?

The test is not valid

An estimate of the extent to which item sampling and other errors have affected scores on two versions of the same test

Parallel forms

What is the mean of the following dataset: 5, 8, 4, 5, 5, 3?

5

What is the median of the following dataset: 5, 8, 4, 5, 5, 3?

5

What is the mode of the following dataset: 5, 8, 4, 5, 5, 3?

5

The Sack’s Sentence Completion Test requires the test taker to fill in the blanks to create a full sentence. What is the format of this test?

Constructed-response

Von wishes to establish test-retest reliability on the psychological test he is developing. He administered the test again to the same set of participants six months after the first test. What is Von computing for?

Coefficient of stability

Data from other measurement instruments designed to measure the same or a similar construct as the test being construct-validated and that all point to the same judgment or conclusion with regard to a test or other tool of measurement.

Convergent evidence

An index of the magnitude to which a test incorporates the vocabulary, concepts, traditions, knowledge, and feelings associated with a particular culture.

Culture loading

In Cattell’s two-factor theory of intelligence, acquired skills and knowledge that are highly dependent on formal and informal education.

Crystallized intelligence

When an intake interview is being conducted, the interviewer asks questions for the identifying data of the client. Which type of memory is at work for the client?

Declarative memory

An interviewer asks a client how they process their emotions when they are feeling overwhelmed. The client then states their steps of breathing exercises to start. What type of memory is at work for the client?

Procedural memory

Erwin is a clinical intern tasked to administer a psychological test. His client’s presenting problem is that they had an experience with sexual abuse. What steps should Erwin do in order to prevent the client from having anxiety?

He should not stand too close to the client when administering the test

Margaux is a teacher who gives her class a test about a lesson that she is yet to teach. She does this so that she will have a grasp of the deficits of the students that she would focus on when teaching the lesson. What type of test is she administering?

Diagnostic test

A legally mandated obligation—to advise an endangered third party of their peril—which may override patient privilege.

Duty to warn

What is referred to as the working relationship between an assessor and an assessee?

Rapport

The extent to which a target trait, behavior, characteristic, or attribute exists within a population

Base rate

The extent to which a test accurately identifies as possessing a target trait, behavior, or attribute.

Hit rate

James answered a scale that claimed to measure the severity of social anxiety to which he got a high score, meaning that he had a highly severe case of social anxiety. Upon evaluation of a mental health professional though, it was revealed that he did not exhibit any severe symptoms of social anxiety. This is a case of ______________.

False positive

Which type of kurtosis is seen in a normally distributed dataset?

Mesokurtic

Raven’s Progressive Matrices is a test that measures one’s nonverbal functioning. The client can answer it at their own pace, however, the time started and ended is recorded. What type of test is this?

Power test

An individual’s unique constellation of psychological traits and states, including aspects of values, interests, attitudes, worldview, acculturation, sense of personal identity, sense of humor, cognitive and behavioral styles, and related characteristics.

Personality

The qualitative research study of Minerva has a risk of making its participants experience heightened anxiety because she is focusing on traumatic experiences related to LGBTQ+ discrimination. What should she do to minimize the harm from her study?

Think of a safety protocol for when a participant gets triggered

The results of a test showed that outliers were infrequent. What type of kurtosis will be presented?

Platykurtic

Which of the following is not included in the provisions or considerations under the integrity principle of the code of ethics?

Minimizing harm

A phenomenon associated with reliability estimates wherein the variance of either variable in a correlational analysis is restricted by the sampling procedure used and so the resulting correlation coefficient tends to be lower.

Restriction of range

How is a correlational study best presented?

Scatterplot

Jeremiah has a student in his preschool class who he thinks is not functioning within normal limits and thinks that this student has special needs. What should be used to test this?

Screening tool

Katarina is taking an entrance exam for Precious Hearts College. She was nearly finished with the Mathematics section of the test when the proctor said that they should already move to the English section. What kind of test is Katarina taking?

Speed test

A raw score that has been converted from one scale into another.

Standard score

Adrian is engaging in a discourse about the nature vs nurture issue of intelligence. He argues that intelligence is predestined at birth which is why there is the concept of fluid intelligence which is independent of learning and experience. What approach or perspective is he basing his argument on?

Preformationism

Viel argues back at Adrian saying that what people only inherit is the intellectual potential and not intelligence itself. She goes on to say that this potential depends on the type of environment the potential is nurtured. What approach or perspective is she basing her argument on?

Interactionism

Terman suggested that gifted children tended to maintain their superior intellectual ability until late adulthood. What does this mean?

Cognitive abilities are fairly constant or consistent

What is referred to as the tendency to have a progressive rise in IQ test scores from the date when the test was first normed?

Flynn effect

All of the following are claimed to be personality factors that may increase IQ, except:
a. Aggressiveness in peers
b. High need for achievement
c. Passivity
d. Competitive striving

Passivity

All of the following are ways in which culture fair tests minimize the influence of culture with regard to various aspects of evaluation procedures, except:

How the test itself is scored

All of the following are characteristics of culture fair tests, except:

The items are verbally loaded

Who developed the 16 Personality Factors Test and also claimed that personality traits as mental structures do not necessarily imply a physical existence?

Raymond Cattell

Which theorist claimed that the personality type is composed of an attitude and a function which became the basis for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Carl Jung

All are opposite dichotomies in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, except:
a. Extraversion-Introversion
b. Sensing-Observing
c. Thinking-Feeling
d. Judging-Perceiving

Sensing-Observing

When asked about how Rue is feeling, her response was, “I feel worried”. The statement is related to which type of anxiety?

State anxiety

Who is the most reliable of information in terms of determining self-concept in assessment?

The client

According to Layla, she views herself in a more positive light when she is performing on stage because she notes that singing is what she is best at, however, in her academics, Layla feels that she is not doing well because of her low test scores. What is evident in this situation?

Self-concept differentiation

All of the following are disadvantages of having another person as a referent for a client unable to take a proper personality test, except:
a. Leniency error
b. Error of central tendency
c. Halo effect
d. None of the above

None of the above

Sandra took the IPIP-NEO. When she got her results back she noticed that she was limited to the Big 5 personality traits and the only difference she had with her friends who also took the test is the varying degrees to which they possess the given personality traits. What interpretation style is shown in this situation?

Nomothetic

Research on the Psychopathy Checklist suggests that it is useful in:

predicting violence within prisons.

Application forms used in employment settings:

are frequently unnecessary, since they usually duplicate information that can be later obtained through interviews, tests, and other methods.

An intelligence test originally written in English is to be administered to a group of Japanese immigrants who do not speak English. In order to obtain an accurate measure of intelligence and completely eliminate any possible effects due to language, the test administrator should:

have a professional translator read the test to the group, simultaneously translating the items word for word.

A 16-year-old male suspected of drug abuse is referred for neuropsychological evaluation. Which tool of assessment is LEAST likely to be used?

measures of creative thinking

In the administration of the TAT:

the number of cards presented is left to examiner discretion.

Sally and Bob both apply for a position as an accounting clerk. The Human Resource (HR) professional responsible for selecting the best candidate for the position administers a standardized test of basic mathematical skills to both Sally and Bob. Based on their scores, the HR professional chooses Sally. The reason for this choice is that Sally has an 85% chance of performing at an acceptable level. By contrast, Bob's score indicated that he only had a 50% chance of performing successfully. The tool of assessment used to make this hiring decision was:

the method of predictive yield.

Which ethical issue is particularly relevant when assessing substance abusers in the context of research?

the issue of informed consent

A counselor created an achievement test with a reliability coefficient of.82. The test was shortened since many clients felt it was too long.

The counselor shortened the test but logically assumed that the reliability coefficient would now remain at .82.

A psychologist who does not act in the same or similar way that other reasonable psychologists would have acted under the same or similar circumstances may be found liable for:

negligence

An aptitude test that includes both psychomotor and paper-and-pencil tasks is the:

General Aptitude Test Battery

The 7-Minute Screen was developed to identify symptoms associated with which of the following?

Alzheimer's disease

A test score or index derived from the combination of, and/or mathematical transformation of, one or more subtest scores is known as a:

test composite

As compared to more traditional, one-on-one and face-to-face assessments, a disadvantage of CAPA is that it typically deprives the assessor of the opportunity to:

observe the test-taker's test-taking behavior.

A key difference between concurrent and predictive validity has to do with:

the time frame during which data on the criterion measure is collected.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on the theoretical writings of:

Carl Jung

A self-report rating scale of neurological impairment is:

the Neuropsychological Impairment Scale.

Traditional measures of reliability are inappropriate for criterion-referenced tests because variability:

is minimized with criterion-referenced tests.

Critics have argued that projective tests are too

subjective

The lower test-retest reliability coefficients found to exist for state anxiety when compared with higher test-retest reliability coefficients obtained for trait anxiety support which premise?

Traits are more enduring personality characteristics than states.

Which of the following represents a problem unique to self-report personality tests?

Respondents might be unwilling to reveal something negative about themselves.