Drill 1: Psychological Assessment (RGO compre ver.)

When a student comes to you for career counseling and asks if she could take a test to find out what field she would be good at, what kind of test would you recommend?

Aptitude tests

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The following are TRUE about testing, EXCEPT:

The assessor is crucial to the entire process.

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Individually administered intelligence tests fall under _________.

Level C

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These are personality tests that are designed to measure the unconscious by presenting ambiguous stimuli (images, inkblots etc.)

Projective Personality Tests

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Uniformity of administration procedures is the definition of

Standardization

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The earliest purpose of testing was for:

To know who could obtain government positions

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The _________ was made to assess the emotional adjustment of army recruits in attempt to avoid accepting applicants who are prone to traumatic-stress symptoms. This test never got past the experimental stage (pilot testing stage)

Personal Data Sheet

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Majority of the immigrants evaluated using the assessment procedures employed by Henry Goddard failed because

The test was in English and majority of the assessees were not well-versed with the English language

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Developing scales for a psychological test on academic achievement confirms what assumption about psychological tests?

Psychological traits and states can be quantified and measured

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An assumption in psychological testing and assessment is that psychological traits can be measured. For this to be true

Test developers must clearly define the trait constructs the test purports to measure

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One of the principles of ethics in psychological assessment is to ensure that one test is complemented with another assessment method to arrive at a more comprehensive profile of the client. This ensures that the limitation in the test is being addressed and compensated by another assessment method. What assumption of psychological testing does this refer to?

Test and other measurement techniques have strengths and weaknesses

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This is a response style where in the test takers try to present themselves as being worse than they actually are.

Faking bad

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In a normal distribution that has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 such as that of IQ scores, the average range that falls within one standard deviation below and above the mean is

85-115

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Luke conducted a happiness survey to a sample of 1000 Filipinos. Most of his participants scored positively in the happiness survey; in fact, more than 2/3 of his participants scored high. Which of the following statement can be said about Luke's data?

It is negatively skewed

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This type of standard score is often used in reporting personality and psychological test results because its meaning is easy to explain to lay people.

Percentile rank

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Suppose the Psychology Department gives an achievement test in psychology to its senior students and the results was found to be normally distributed with μ=100 and σ=10. One of its senior students got a score of 115. Which of the following is correct about the student's standard scores?

z = 1.5; t = 65

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Which of the following describes a leptokurtic distribution?

A quality of life survey where in almost all of the participants reported that they have an average quality of life.

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If you intend to assess personality and IQ at the same time, it is BEST to use

16PF

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The following accurately describe the role of test publishers, LEAST of which is:

They conceive, prepare, and develop tests.

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What was Wechsler's major criticism of the Binet scale?

It was not an appropriate measure of adults' intelligence.

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The informed consent should contain the following information, EXCEPT for:

Prior investigation into the utilized tools

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A manufacturing company is recruiting assembly-line workers for its new product. It has set its own standards for what is considered a high-quality product. Applicants are asked to assemble the product and only those who met the standards are accepted. This is considered an example of which approach in assessment?

Criterion-referenced testing

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Lee, a psychometrician, administered OLSAT to a client. In his report, he based the interpretation from the raw score and made recommendations based on it. How would you react to it?

He should have used the norm instead of the raw score

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The assessor asked the client to interpret the meaning of "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". This part of the MSE assesses the client's _______.

abstract thinking

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The following are measures of psychopathology, LEAST of which is:

WGCTA (Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Test)

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Which of the following has the capacity to measure the ability to hold information in the mind for a brief period of time?

DAT (Differential Aptitude Test)

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When there is practice effect

The test scores increase; the reliability decreases

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Similar to test-retest but with the use of alternate forms

alternate forms delayed

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When a particular test is said to be reliable, which among the following statements can be used to describe the test?

All of the statements in the choices are appropriate

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The following are measures of internal consistency EXCEPT for:

spearman rho

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A high coefficient alpha indicates that

the test has high internal consistency

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Getting the Coefficient of Equivalence means getting what index of reliability?

Parallel forms

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In assessing the reliability of characteristics that change drastically over time, it is BEST to use

internal consistency

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When Sarah's results from the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) are compared with the actual condition, what assumption about testing is this referring to?

Test-related behavior predicts non-test related behavior

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A test of scholastic aptitude is administered at the beginning of first semester and the academic performance of the sample is examined at the end of the first year of university (i.e. two semesters later). A failure to find a correlation between test scores and academic performance

indicates the test lacks predictive validity

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When you utilize expert opinions on the construct you are trying to measure by sending out your items to them so that they can check the quality of the test questions, then you are trying to get:

content validity

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Dr. Gertrude correlates scores on a test (test 1) with scores on other tests (test 2 & test 3). The analysis demonstrates that the scores on test 1 correlate highly with scores on test 2 but do not correlate with scores on test 3. This type of analysis is used to determine:

construct validity

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A measure of validity is established when both the criterion measure and the test result of the newly created test are obtainable at present.

concurrent validity

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The following are typical questions that are raised and answered during the test conceptualization stage of test development, LEAST of which is:

How valid are the items on the test?

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If Robert is determining the difficulty and the discriminability of the test items, then he is already in the ________ stage of test development.

item analysis

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Which of the following difficulty indexes can be considered as the most difficult?

p = .12

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Professor Nando conducted an item analysis to examine the difficulty of the test items. Item no. 15 had an item difficulty index of .80. What does this mean?

80% of the test-takers got the item correct. Hence, the item is easy

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Qualitative item analysis typically takes place

before pilot testing the initial items

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What can be said about having a large item pool in the test development process?

it is beneficial because bad items may be deleted in favor of the good items in the item pool

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Which of the following would characterize someone who has low agreeableness?

Stingy, suspicious, egocentric, insensitive

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The mother of a student-applicant in a tertiary institution approached you, the school psychometrician, to ask what the coverage of the entrance exam would be. How should you respond in this situation?

decline to give them a copy of the test to maintain test security

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Test items that contain alternatives with five points ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" are characterized as using this approach to scaling:

Likert scaling/Rating scale

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A test is set into large font type for a visually impaired test-taker. This is an example of _______

an accommodation

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In a group discussion, John takes almost half of the time sharing his ideas and asserting that things should be done based on his 'reasonable' suggestions. In 16PF, what do you think John's score is high in?

Dominance

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Fin takes his time when shopping. He makes sure to visit as many stores as possible before deciding what to buy. Even when he already chose what to buy, Fin weighs the pros and cons of buying an item before deciding. Fin is most probably _________

High in neuroticism

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