Psych Assessment Flashcards
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_______ is an instrument or a tool to provide a description of an observed phenomenon.
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Test
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It involves the assignment of numerical values to whatever is being tested.
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Measurement
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It is a process of documenting certain data. Involving gathering, interpreting, and utilizing.
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Assessment
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Is concerned with a whole range of contexts, in and beyond the variables such as observation, test report, and feedback.
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Evaluation
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Ancient China
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Civil Service
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Charles Darwin
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Variation in species according to adaptivity and survival
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Francis Galton
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Classify people according to their natural gifts
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Karl Pearson
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Product moment correlation technique
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Wilhelm Max Wundt
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Relating similarities not differences
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James Mckeen Catell
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Mental test
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Charles Spearman
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Test Reliability and Factor Analysis
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Emil Kraepelin
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DSM
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Alfred Binet
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Measure of intelligence
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Robert Woodworth
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Personal Data Sheet
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Raymond Cattell
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Personality dimensions
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Tests or aids that can adequately be administered, scored and interpreted with the aid of the manual and general orientation.
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Level A
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Tests or aids that require some technical knowledge of test construction and use and of supporting psychological and educational fields
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Level B
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Tests and aids that require a substantial understanding of testing and supporting psychological fields together with supervised experience in the use of these devices.
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Level C
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Test that measures previous learning.
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Achievement Test
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Refers to a person’s general skills and ability to solve problems
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Intelligence Test
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_______ variability means that the values are less consistent, so it’s harder to make predictions.
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High
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The _______ tells you the spread of your data from the lowest to the highest value in the distribution.
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Range
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____ is the 25th percentile rank
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Q1
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What quartiles belong is the 75 percentiles?
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Q3
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The _______ is the average amount of variability in your dataset. It tells you, on average, how far each score lies from the mean.
Standard Deviation
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A high standard deviation shows that the data is widely spread means ____11_____and a low standard deviation shows that the data are clustered closely around the mean means _____12_____
Less reliable, More reliable
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______ distinguish one person from another but are relatively less enduring
State
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_______ any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another
Traits
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Being flexible, patient, and compassionate is an example of a?
Traits
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______ behavior refers to an observable action or the product of an observable action, including test- or assessment-related responses.
Overt
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What is NOT a correct Psychological Testing assumption?
Test-Related Behavior Cannot Predicts Non-Test-Related Behavior
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Establishing a frame of reference or a point of comparison to compare the attributes of two or more individuals in a common setting is what we called ____.
Test Norm
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Uniform parameters are one characteristic of _______.
Standardization
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The manner such that no bias is the main target of ______.
Objective
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Assessment is considered _____ if it shows consistency.
Reliability
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Assessment is considered _____ if it measures what is intended to measure.
Validity
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. Which is NOT a Characteristic of a good test?
Subjective
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_______ the process of selecting the portion of the population deemed to be representative of the whole.
Sampling
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A technique where the population is divided into homogeneous groups before getting random samples from each group.
Stratified random sampling
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A technique where every individual in the population has an equal chance of being selected.
Simple Random Sampling
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A technique where participants are recruited through referrals from other participants.
Snowball Sampling
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A technique where every nth individual in the population is selected for inclusion in the sample.
Systematic Sampling
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A technique where individuals are selected based on their availability and willingness to participate in the study.
Convenience Sampling
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An eight-year-old kid test may be compared to the average score for other children of the same age. This is a form of what Norm type?
Age Norm
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What type of norming is based on the expectations and behaviors associated with different social groups within a society?
Social Norm
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A type of reliability that assesses the consistency of a measure over time.
Test-retest
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The Test-retest reliability involves administering the same test or measure to the same group of individuals at the same points in time.
Incorrect
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This type of reliability assesses the consistency of a measure when it is used by different raters or observers.
Inter-rater reliability
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If Cronbach's alpha is to determine the degree of correlation between the different items while KR 20 is for?
Dichotomous
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It involves administering two or more different forms of the same test or measure to the same group of individuals and correlating the scores from the different forms.
Alternate-form
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This type of validity assesses the extent to which a measure adequately covers all the aspects of the construct being measured.
Content
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This type of criterion validity assesses the extent to which a measure is related to an external criterion that is assessed at the same time.
Concurrent
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This type of criterion validity assesses the extent to which a measure is related to an external criterion that is assessed at a future point in time.
Predictive
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This type of validity refers to the degree to which a measure is related to other measures that are theoretically related to the same construct.
Convergent
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This type of validity refers to the degree to which a measure is not related to other measures that are theoretically unrelated to the construct being measured.
Divergent
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If a test appears to be measuring what it is supposed to, it has _____ validity
High Face Validity
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A _____ rate refers to a correct positive prediction, where the test correctly identifies a positive case.
Hit
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If 1000 people are tested and 50 of them have the disorder, but the test incorrectly identifies 20 of the healthy people as having the disorder, this indicates?
False Positive
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If 1000 people are tested and 50 of them have the disease, but the test incorrectly identifies 2 of the diseased people as healthy, then there are 2 ___
False-negative
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A false positive is what type of error?
Type 1 Error
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A false negative is what type of error?
Type 2 Error
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Find what is incorrect: Type of Validity: Content, Criterion. Construct, Consistency
4
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Find what is incorrect: Type of Reliability: Criterion, Construct, Internal Consistency, Inter-rater
1
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If False is actually true
Type 2 Error
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Psychological tests are used to assess the following context:
All of the above
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According to Catell _____ is the capacity to acquire new knowledge and solve new problems, and is partially determined by biological and genetic factors.
Fluid
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Tasks such as solving abstract puzzles, identifying patterns, or figuring out unfamiliar relationships between objects is an examples of intelligence according to Catell.
Fluid
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Type of intelligence that focuses on knowledge and learning gained over one’s lifetime through an interaction between fluid intelligence and environment.
Crystalized
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Vocabulary, general knowledge, or factual information in a particular subject area are examples of intelligence according to Catell.
Crystalized
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Who is the proponent of General cognitive ability (g factor)
Charles Spearman
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Binet’s fundamental assumption was that intellectual capacities in children decrease with age on average so older children were expected to perform better than younger children on the same items.
False
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_______ is the person’s actual age in years
CA
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As defined by Alfred Binet, reflects a person’s level of intellectual functioning.
MA
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What is the correct equation for IQ?
IQ = MA/CA x 100
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A child is tested and found to have a mental age of 8 years. The child’s chronological age is 15 years. What is the IQ of this child?
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Normal or average IQ is in the range of ______.
90 – 109
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The standard deviation in IQ scores is _____.
15
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If the IQ <70, means
With intellectual disability
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IQ more than two standard deviations above the mean or a Superior intelligence is ______
IQ>130
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The proponent of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
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Ability to imagine and form pictures and transform them into ideas & expressions
Visual
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What is not an example of Interpersonal Intelligence
Writing journal entry
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The Minnesota Multiphasic is to self-report inventories as the
Cattell's 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire
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The most controversial use of personality assessment is in:
personnel selection
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You have just taken a test that involved answering pages of questions about your characteristic behavior. You probably responded to a(n):
self-report personality inventory
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If you needed a personality inventory capable of measuring a person's degree of psychopathology, you would probably use:
the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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A friend tells you that he recently responded to a personality inventory with about 550 items that indicated that his level of depression was above normal. He probably took:
the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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In order to identify clusters of closely related personality traits and the factors underlying them, Raymond Cattell used:
factor analysis
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The personality inventory developed by Raymond Cattell that describes an individual in terms of a limited number of personality source traits is the:
16 Personality Factor Questionnaire
