18 Interests, Values, and Personality (copy)

What are Maximum Performance Measures?

Cognitive and ability tests that measure what people are capable of under the best circumstances.

What do Typical Performance Measures assess?

Interests, values, attitudes, and personality measures that reflect what people are like on an everyday basis

Typical Performance Measures Generally have ____ psychometric properties than Maximum performance measures

(What you know today, you know tomorrow

But what you feel today, you may not feel tomorrow)

Lower

Reliability of Typical Performance Measures are _____ affecting their _____

Lower; validity.

What percentage of nonshared environmental + error contribute to vocational interests?

.53

Interests & Values Surveys predict success in school or career

False

What percentage of genetics contribute to vocational interests?

.36

What is the relationship between family structure and vocational interest?

Children tend to identify with their parents' occupational choices until adolescence.

Interests & Values Surveys predict ____

Satisfaction with job/career and school major, but not sucess in school or career.

What is a common problem with response sets in testing?

Inauthentic responses and they lower the validity of tests

What is the purpose of validity scales in tests?

To detect response sets and response distortion.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) utilizes forced-choice

True

What are Instrumental Values?

Moral and competence values that involve modes of conduct.

What are Terminal Values?

Personal and social values that address end states of existence.

What is the test-retest reliability for Terminal Values?

r = .78 - .80.

What is the test-retest reliability for Instrumental Values?

r = .70 - .72.

What is a key limitation of Interests & Values Surveys?

They do not correlate with school grades.

What are Response Sets?

Patterns of responding that can lower the validity of tests.

What percentage of shared environment contributes to vocational interests?

.11

How does the Forced-choice Format improve the authenticity of responses?

Minimizes response sets by forcing respondents to choose between equally appealing options, reducing socially desirable responding.

Actual job/career is more influenced by ____ and ____

Ability; opportunity

Forced-choice results in ____ measurement (Essentially there are only so many points! If the score on one scale is higher, then the score on another scale must be lower since it is forced choice)

Ipsative

With forced-choice it is not possible to have uniformly high or uniformly low scale scores

True