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Finals Exam Flashcards

1
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True or False: The purpose of gathering integration of psychology-related data is to make a “psychological assessment.”

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False - “psychological evaluation”

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True or False: “Testing” typically answer the referral question, solve a problem or arrive at a decision through the use of tools of evaluation.

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False - “Assessment”

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True or False: Tests differ in their administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures.

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True

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True or False: Modifications (accommodations) may need to be made in a psychological test (or measurement procedure) in order for an evaluation to proceed.

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True

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True or False: “Common language” between assessor and assessee is a most basic part of the assessment.

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False - “Communication”

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Generally refers to every process from administration to the interpretation of the scores.

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Testing

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7
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A concept that generally focuses on processes rather than simply the results of those processing.

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Assessment

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8
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A collaborative approach to assessment that encourage self-discovery and new understanding throughout the assessment process.

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Therapeutic Psychological Assessment

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An approach to a psychological assessment that usually follows an evaluation-intervention-evaluation assessment process.

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Dynamic Assessment

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The process of assigning evaluative codes or statements to functioning on tests, tasks, interviews, and other behavioral samples.

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Scoring

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11
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Tools of psychological assessment in gathering information through reciprocal exchange.

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Interview as tool

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Tool of psychological assessment in gathering information through preserved archival information, official and informational accounts and other data and items relevant to a client.

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Case History Data

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Tool of psychological assessment in gathering information through actions from simulated situation.

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Role-play

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14
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A party in the assessment enterprise which refers to the client-subject of an assessment or evaluation.

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Test Taker

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Settings wherein achievement assessments are conducted.

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Educational settings

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To know the improvement of the client in terms of adjustment, productivity, etc.

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Counseling Settings

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A part of an alternative assessment tools are used to help screen or diagnose behavior problems.

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Clinical settings

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A part of an alternate assessment process that is provided to cater or suitably meet people with disabilities or those with exceptional needs.

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Accommodation

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Every phrase below is a general type of accommodation needed for a psychological test (or measurement procedure) evaluation to proceed, EXCEPT; a. The form of the test as presented to the test-taker, b. Modification of the environment wherein test is conducted, c. The way responses to the test were obtained, d. Practicality and flexibility of the test users.

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The way responses to the test were obtained

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20
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Reference source (about published tests and assessment related issues) that pertains to a brief description of a test’s technical information for a prospective user.

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Test manual

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21
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Reference source about the detail information of a particular test development and its technical information.

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Test catalogue

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22
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Developed the product-moment correlation technique.

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Karl Pearson

23
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A significant individual in the field of measurement who first quantified individual differences between people, contributing to the development of many contemporary tools of psychological assessment.

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Sir Francis Galton

24
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A significant individual in the field of measurement who pioneered the use of the statistical concept central to psychological experimentation and testing.

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Sir Francis Galton

25
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Coined the term, “mental test,” and brought statistics for mental testing.

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James McKeen Cattell

26
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In the language of research, this refers to the collective influences of all factors on a test core that are beyond those specifically measured by the test.

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Error

27
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Continuous scale measures the following EXCEPT: a. GPA, b. Temperature, c. Birth Order, d. Level of Anxiety

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Birth Order

28
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Scale of measurement which has no absolute zero point.

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Interval Scale

29
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Class intervals replace the actual test scores.

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Grouped Frequency Distribution

30
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Scores are listed alongside the number of times each score occurred.

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Simple Frequency Distribution

31
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Is a straightforward, unmodified accounting of performance that is usually numerical.

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Raw Score

32
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A set of test scores arrayed for recording or study.

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Distribution

33
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A measure of Central Tendency that is denoted by the symbol X

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Arithmetic mean

34
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It is determined by ordering the scores in a list of magnitude, ascending or descending order.

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Median

35
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An indication of how scores in a distribution are scattered or dispersed.

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Variability

36
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This describes the steepness of a distribution with reference to its center.

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Kurtosis

37
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This is equal to the square root of the variance.

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Standard deviation

38
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A type of distribution showing relatively few scores falling at the high end of the distribution.

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Positively skewed

39
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A type of distribution showing relatively few scores falling at the low end of the distribution.

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Negatively skewed

40
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A portion of the pool of people deemed to be representative of the whole population.

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Sample

41
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The process of administering a test to a representative sample of test-taker for the purpose of establishing norms.

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Standardization

42
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A number that provides an index of the strength of the relationship between two things.

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Correlation coefficient

43
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Most widely used measure of correlation.

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Pearson r

44
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The following are sources of error variance EXCEPT: a. Construction of test, b. Test Responses, c. Test administration, d. Test Scoring and Interpretation

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Test Responses

45
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The estimate of test-retest reliability when the interval between testing is greater than 6 months.

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Coefficient of stability

46
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A reliability estimate gained by correlating pairs of scores from the same people, on the same test on two different administrations.

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Test-retest reliability

47
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A judgment that concerns how relevant the test items appear to be.

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Face Validity

48
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Describes a judgment of how adequately a “test samples behavior representative” of a wide-ranging behavior that the test was designed to measure.

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Content Validity

49
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A judgment that concerns the appropriateness of inferences drawn from test scores.

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Construct validity

50
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A factor inherent in a test that systematically prevents accuracy.

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Bias

51
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A judgment resulting from the intentional and international misuse of a rating scale.

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Rating Error

52
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An approach that focuses on the relationship between the test-takers answer to an individual test item.

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Item Response Theory

53
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Discrete variables are measured by:

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Nominal Scale

54
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This is equal to the mean of the squares of the difference between the scores in a distribution.

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Variance

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