CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCH ASSESSMENT

Question 1

What is Test?

Answer 1

Measurement device used to quantify behavior or aid in understandinh behavior.

Question 2

What is Item?

Answer 2

Questions that make up a test

Question 3

What is psychological test?

Answer 3

Set of items that measure human characteristics

Question 4

What is overt behavior?

Answer 4

Directly observed behavior

Question 5

What is covert behavior?

Answer 5

Indirectly observed behavior

Question 6

What is Individual test?

Answer 6

Administer to a one person only

Question 7

What is group test?

Answer 7

Administer to one or two more people

Question 8

What is achievement test?

Answer 8

Refers to previous learning

Question 9

What is aptitude test?

Answer 9

Refers to specific skill

Question 10

What is intelligence test?

Answer 10

Refers to a person ability in solving problem

Question 11

What is ability test?

Answer 11

Refers to speed and accuracy or both.

Question 12

What is personality test?

Answer 12

Overt and overt dispositions

Measures typical behavior like traits, temparaments and dispositions

Question 13

What is objective personality test?

Answer 13

Structured test

With choices like true or false

Question 14

What is projective test?

Answer 14

Unstructured test
Ambiguous stimulus

Example:
Rorscach inkblot test and TAT

Question 15

Who started the psychological test?

Answer 15

Chinese people

Question 16

In what dynasty did they use battery test?

Answer 16

Hans Dynasty

Question 17

In what dynasty did they improve test?

Answer 17

Ming Dynasty

Question 18

Who wrote the book “The origin of species?”

Answer 18

Charles Darwin

Question 19

Who wrote the book “Heredity Genius?”

Answer 19

Sir Francis Galtaon

Question 20

Who coined the word mental test?

Answer 20

James Mckeen Cattell

Question 21

Who used the mathematical models of the mind?

Answer 21

J. E Herbart

John Friedrich Herbart

Question 22

Who demonstrated psychological threshold?

Answer 22

E. H Weber

Ernst Heinrich Weber

Question 23

Who devised the law that strength of a sensation grow as algorithm of stimulus intensity?

Answer 23

G. T Fechner

Gustav Theodor Feshner

Question 24

Who is the father of experimental psych?

Answer 24

Wilhum Wundt

Question 25

Who is the successor of Wilhum Wundt?

Answer 25

E. B Titchner | Edward Bradford Tishner

Question 26

What is the test designed for mentally handicupped or disabled?

Answer 26

Seguin Form Based Test

Question 27

Who developed first major general intelligence test?

Answer 27

Albert Binet and Theodore Simon

Question 28

What year was the Binet - Simon Scale developed?

Answer 28

1905

Question 29

How many items did Binet Simon Scale have when it was first used?

Answer 29

30 items

Question 30

What is the purpose of Binet Simon Scale?

Answer 30

Identify intellectually subnormal individuals

Question 31

When did the Binet Simon Scale revised? | What is the name then?

Answer 31

1909 | Revised Binet Simon Scale

Question 32

In its revision, How many people added in the test?

Answer 32

200 people

Question 33

What is the biggest contribution of the revised B-S Scale?

Answer 33

Mental Age Concept

Question 34

Who made the american version of BS Scale?

Answer 34

L. M Terman | Lewis Madison Terman

Question 35

What is the name of the B-S scale after its revision on 1916?

Answer 35

Standford Binet Intelligence Scale

Question 36

How many people added in the SBIS in its revision?

Answer 36

1000 people

Question 37

Who is the president of APA during WWI?

Answer 37

Robert Yekes

Question 38

What are the two structured grouped test of human abilities during WWI?

Answer 38

Army alpha | Army beta

Question 39

What is army alpha?

Answer 39

Required ability to read

Question 40

What is army beta?

Answer 40

Measures intelligence of illiterrate adults

Question 41

What ability test was developed after WWI?

Answer 41

Standardized achievement test

Question 42

When was the 2nd revision of SBIS?

Answer 42

1937

Question 43

Who developed the WISC?

Answer 43

David Weschler

Question 44

What is the original name of WISC?

Answer 44

W-B or Weschler Bellevue Intelligence Scale

Question 45

What year was the W-B version developed?

Answer 45

1939

Question 46

What is the difference of SBIS and WISC?

Answer 46

SBIS - Single score (IQ) | WISC - Several Scores

Question 47

What is traits?

Answer 47

Relatively enduring disposition in any given circumstances | Example: optimism

Question 48

What is the first structured personality test?

Answer 48

Woodworth Personal Data Sheet

Question 49

What is the underlying motivation of personality test during WWI?

Answer 49

To screen military recruits

Question 50

What are the two famous unstructured personality test?

Answer 50

Rorschach Inkblot Test | Thematic Apperception Test

Question 51

What is Rorscach Inkblot test? | What year it was developed?

Answer 51

It's unstructured test that a person will say any images from the inkblot It was developed on 1921

Question 52

Who made the Rorschach Inkblot test?

Answer 52

Herman Rorschach

Question 53

Who made the Rorschach popular in USA?

Answer 53

Sam Beck made it more popular due to his investigation that it can be used scientifically

Question 54

What is TAT? | When was it developed?

Answer 54

Henry Murray - Thematic Apperception Test is unstructured personality test that uses pictures to create seen and scenarios. It has ambiguous stimulus. It was developed on 1939

Question 55

What is MMPI?

Answer 55

Minnoseta Multiphasic Personality Inventory is structured personality test

Question 56

What is factor analysis?

Answer 56

It is a method to find a minimum number of dispositions called factors

Question 57

Who is J. R Guilford?

Answer 57

He first used the factor analysis technique

Question 58

Who is Raymond Bernard Cattell?

Answer 58

He made a 16PF ( 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire)