Assessment Flashcards
Norm-referenced vs criterion-referenced scores
Norm-referenced scores provide info how a person performed relative to others in the group.
Criterion-referenced score provides information on how much of the content a person has mastered.
Spearman theory of intelligence
Intelligence is a single factor, “G factor”.
Thurstone
There are seven distinct mental abilities: verbal comprehension, word fluency, numerical fluency, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed, and reasoning.
Cattel
G factor exists with 2 subtypes: fluid intelligence (capacity to acquire new knowledge and solve new problems) and crystallized intelligence (knowledge and learning gained over one’s lifetime).
VCI
Verbal comprehension abilities.
PRI
perceptual reasoning abilities, fluid abilities.
Raven’s progressive matrices
Non-verbal test of intelligence. Series of abstract patterns with one piece missing.
Bayley tests
For infants. Poor predictors of intelligence in later years for most; good predictors of intelligence for low scorers.
MMPI2
Measure of personality functioning.
L scale
Lie scale.
F scale
Infrequency or “fake bad” scale, includes items that are endorsed by less than 10% of ppl. High scores on this scale indicate malingering.
K scale
Guardedness. Suggests person is trying to make themself present better than they are.
If tests are more difficult what will happen
Decreases false positives and increased true negatives
Primary mental abilities test
Multifaceted test of intelligence
Diff between traditional assessment and behavioral assessment
Behavioral assessment is ongoing.
How to increase the sensitivity of a test
Lower predictor cutoff
TO observe on-task behavior, what method should you use?
Event recording
Item response theory/latent trait model
Attempts to explain relationship between latent traits and their manifestations. when test content is of varying difficulty, uniform scales of measurement can be applied to persons of different ability levels.
Test-retest reliability is most appropriate for what type of analysis?
Measuring enduring trait.
Description of TAT
Personality/projective test
Diagnosis that has the lowest level of interrater reliability?
G.A.D.
Biggest issue related to diagnosing anorexia
Denial of a problem
Criterion contamination occurs when?
Raters of the criterion measure know subjects’ scores on a predictor measure.
What is most likely to trigger bipolar I episodes?
environmental stressors are more likely to trigger the first/second episodes than later episodes.
