Psychological Assessment Review

These flashcards cover important concepts and terms related to psychological assessment, testing, history, and methodologies to help prepare for exams.

The process of gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation is called __.

Psychological Assessment

__ refers to the potential for learning or acquiring a specific skill.

Aptitude

Hard signs are defined as __ indicators of definite neurological deficits.

definite

A __ is a measurement that entails evaluation of one’s somatic health and intactness.

Physical Test

The first intelligence test designed to help identify Paris school children with ID was published by Alfred Binet and __ in 1905.

Theodore Simon

The __ between two groups on different measures of the same variable can be significant if the means are significantly different according to statistical testing.

difference

The __ is a reference point derived by judgement and used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications.

Cut Score

__ tests are those designed to measure accomplishment or the degree of learning that has taken place as a result of exposure to a relatively defined experience.

Achievement

Interview methods that involve more than one interviewer participating in the assessment are called __ interviews.

Panel

The __ hypothesis states that there is a change, difference, or relationships in a population.

Alternative

A __ tests an individual's capacity to understand other people as part of multiple intelligences.

Interpersonal Intelligence

The scale concerning how adequately a test samples behavior representative of the universe of behavior that it was designed to sample is termed __ validity.

Content

Lewis Terman revised Binet’s test in the US and introduced the concept of __ IQ.

Deviation

The score obtained after the conversion of a raw score to indicate how many standard deviation units the raw score is from the mean is called __ score.

Z-

A __ refers to the average or midmost score between the extreme scores in a distribution.

Measure of Central Tendency

The __ Effect refers to the progressive rise in IQ scores that is expected to occur on a normed intelligence test.

Flynn