Appraisal pt.2

Question 1

A new IQ test which yielded results nearly identical to other standardized measures would be said to have

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A good concurrent validity

Question 2

Concurrent validity

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How well your test stacks up against a well-established test that measure the same behavior.

Question 3

Convergent Validity

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The relationship of a test to an independent measure or trait

Question 4

Convergent Validity

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used to assess a test’s construct/criterion validity by correlating test scores with an outside source

Question 5

If someone with a snake phobia is exposed to a snake and experience extreme phobia. If they score higher on the test than he would in a relaxed state then it would be called

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Convergent Validity

Question 6

Discriminant Validity

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the test will not reflect unrelated variables

Question 7

When a counselor tells a client that the GRE will predict her ability to handle graduate work, the counselor is referring to

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Predictive Validity

Question 8

Predictive Validity

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The power to accurately describe future behavior or events

Question 9

Criterion Validity

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Concurrent and Predictive

Question 10

A reliable test is ____ valid

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not always

Question 11

A valid test is _____ reliable

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always

Question 12

One method of testing reliability is to give the same test to the same group of people two times and then correlates the scores

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Test-retest reliability

Question 13

Giving the same population alternate forms of the identical test. Each form will have the same psychometric/statistical properties as the original instrument

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Equivalent or alternate forms reliability

Question 14

Which method of reliability testing would be useful with an essay test but not with a test of algebra problems

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Interrater/interobserver

Question 15

A reliability coefficient of 1.00 indicates

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A perfect score which has no error

Question 16

An excellent psychological or counseling test would have a reliability coefficient of

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0.90

Question 17

A researcher working with a personality test discovers that the test has a reliability coefficient of 0.70. This indicates that

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70% of the score is accurate while 30% is inaccurate

Question 18

Using the test-retest reliability method, the correlation between the first and second administration is 0.70. The true variance is

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49%.

(0.70 x 0.70)=0.49

Question 19

IQ means

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Intelligence Quotient

Question 20

____ did research and concluded that intelligence was normally distributed like height and weight and that is was primarily genetic.

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Francis Galton

Question 21

Francis Galton felt intelligence was

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A unitary factor

Question 22

J.P Guilford isolated 120 factors which added up to intelligence. He is also remembered for his

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Thoughts on convergent and divergent thinking

Question 23

A counselor is told by his supervisor to measure the internal consistency reliability of a test but not to divide the test in halves. The counselor would need to utilize

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the Kuder-Richardson coefficients of equivalence

Question 24

The first intelligence test was created by

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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon

Question 25

Today, the Stanford-Binet IQ test is

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a standardized measure

Question 26

Why is Stanford-Binet standardized?

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The scoring and administration procedures are formal and well delineated.

Question 27

IQ is expressed by

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MA/CA x 100

Question 28

The 9 years old task would be

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50% of the 9 year olds could answer correctly

Question 29

Simon and Binet pioneered the first IQ test around 1905. The test was created to

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discriminate normal from retarded Parisian children

Question 30

Today the Stanford-Binet is used from age 2-adulthood. The IQ formula has been replaced by the

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SAS

Question 31

What is the SAS

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Standard age score