Assessment and Diagnosis

Question 1

Reactive attachment disorder

Answer 1

According to DSM-IV, Reactive Attachment Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood occurs in reaction to “grossly pathological care” and results in “markedly disturbed . . . social relatedness.” In the disinhibited type of the disorder (Response 1), there is “indiscriminant sociability,” e.g., the child responds to strangers in an over-friendly way. In the inhibited type, the child is inhibited, hypervigilant, or highly ambivalent.

Question 2

Spearman’d g factor

Answer 2

Intelligence is based on one factor (g), Intelligence should measure intellgence without becoming overly clouded by specific abilities. Raven’s prorgessive matrices is a good measure of g.

Question 3

Larry P vs. Riles

Answer 3

Court case related to intelligence testing for minority children. Concluded that testing was discriminatory for minority children as far too many were meeting criteria for SpEd. As a result, intelligence testing alone can no longer be used in assigning minority students to special education services.

Question 4

Griggs Vs. Duke Power

Answer 4

The use of selection tests in industry has been influenced by the case of Griggs versus the Duke Power Company, in which it was ruled that certain tests, such as the Wonderlic, were unfair to use in making decisions about hiring and promotion. Broad, general testing was faulted, and testing was required to measure the specific skills required by a particular job.

Question 5

Halo effect

Answer 5

Generalizing from one characteristic of the person to other aspects

Question 6

Criterion contamination

Answer 6

Criterion is subjectively scores and the rater has knowledge of the employees predictor scores. When this occurs scores on the criterion are influenced by one knowledge of the predictor scores

Question 7

What is the concordance rate for twins with BP?

Answer 7

75% - BP is one of the most heavily genetically loaded mental health disorders.

Question 8

Confluence Model of intelligence

Answer 8

relationship between family birth order and IQ. the oldest child tends to have the highest IQ and it goes downward from there.

Question 9

Flynn Effect

Answer 9

IQ test scores have increased about 3 points per decade over the course of 70 years. Has to do with environmental factros

Question 10

Gender difference in Intelligence

Answer 10

Girls outperform boys in langauge and are less likely to have langauge realted LDs. Boys do better with some visuospatial tasks. differences tend to be small and have declines

Question 11

Slope vs. intercept bias

Answer 11

• Slope: differentaial validity for a predictor with diffierent groups.
• intercept:mvalidity coefficients and criterion performance for different groups are the same but the mean score on the predictor differ.

Question 12

Empirical Criterion Keying

Answer 12

used for the development of MMPI

test items are administered to appropriate criterion groups. ites that destinguish between groups are included

Question 13

MMPI Validity scales

Answer 13

L (Lie)
+trying to present self in favorable light
-frankness or exageration of negative

F(frequency)
+fake bad
-Fake good

K (Correction)
+fake good
-fake bad

VRIN (variable response inconsistency)

• T=80+ is invalid profile
• measure of consistency in responding. items that should be answered in the same direction

TRIN (True response inconsistency)
-based on paired items that should be answered in the opposite direction