Chapter 3 ppt

Question 1

What are the 3 key concepts of assessment?

Answer 1

Stability, reliability, and validity

Question 2

What are two forms of reliability?

Answer 2

Test-retest reliability and inter-rater reliability

Question 3

What are four types of validity?

Answer 3

Concurrent, discriminant, predictive, and face validity

Question 4

Psychological testing must be ___ and ____

Answer 4

Reliable and valid

Question 5

Projective tests (such as Rorschach, TAT) have roots in what?

Answer 5

Freudian psychoanalytic tradition (trying to make the unconscious conscious)

Question 6

What kind of stimuli do projective tests use, and to what degree do they utilize inference in scoring?

Answer 6

They use ambiguous test stimuli with the aim of making the unconscious conscious, and there’s a high degree of inference in scoring

Question 7

Describe and give examples of objective testing

Answer 7

Objective testing has roots in empirical tradition, its stimuli are less ambiguous, there’s minimal clinical inference in scoring. It also has extensive reliability, validity, and normative database.
Ex: Personality tests, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 8

Classification is central to what?

Answer 8

All sciences

Question 9

The DSM is now in its ____ edition

Answer 9

5th

Question 10

What are two problems with the DSM? What do these dilemmas mean?

Answer 10

Its categorical model dominates the conceptualization of mental disorders, and it doesn’t explain the high rates of comorbidity between certain illnesses (ex: depression and anxiety occur together in 80% of cases). Both of these problems suggest that the DSM may be giving one set of symptoms many labels.

Question 11

Correlation ranges from ___ to ___

Answer 11

-1 to 1 (1 = 100% correlated)

Question 12

Describe experimental research

Answer 12

It uses the manipulation of independent variables to form casual relations between two or more variables.

Question 13

Name 4 strategies used in genetic research

Answer 13

Family studies
Adoptee studies
Twin studies
Genotype vs. Phenotype

Question 14

What two components should be a part of every research program?

Answer 14

They should have several methodologies and replication

Question 15

Define standardization

Answer 15

Keeping tests consistent in multiple situations (i.e. all participants are given the exact same test in the same conditions)

Question 16

Describe test-retest reliability

Answer 16

If you take the same test twice, will the results be the same?

Question 17

What is inter-rater reliability?

Answer 17

The idea that if you take a test twice, but with two different administrators, you should get the same score twice

Question 18

What does reliability ask about a test?

Answer 18

Is the test measuring what it’s supposed to measure?