Psychological Assessment

Question 1

Test Characteristics

Answer 1

• Reliability
• Validity
• Standardization

Question 2

Scores

Answer 2

• Norm-referenced
• Criterion-referenced
• Self-referenced

Question 3

Norm-referenced scores

Answer 3

• Report whether test takers performed better or worse than a hypothetical average student
• performance is compared to others who took the same test
• E.g.: SAT, GRE, WISC & IQ tests

Question 4

Criterion-referenced scores

Answer 4

• Interprets examinee’s performance in terms of what he/she can do or knows with a regard to clearly defined domain
• E.g.: ACT, SBAT & NAEP

Question 5

Self-referenced scores (Ipsative)

Answer 5

• Permit intraindividual comparisons

Question 6

Types of Psychological Assessments

Answer 6

• Functional Behavior Assessment (ID antecedents & consequences of behavior)
• Testing the Limits (provide cues/f/back/suggestions)
• Computer Assisted Testing (tailor test to indiv. by choosing subsequent items based on previous ans.)

Question 7

Theories of Intelligence

Answer 7

• Spearman (g plus one/specific)
• Horn & Cattell (fluid/crystalized intel.)
• Sternberg’s Triarchic (practical, analytical & creative - PAC)

Question 8

Flynn effect

Answer 8

• Observed rise over time in standardized intelligence test scores
• Documented by Flynn (1984a) in a study on intelligence quotient (IQ) score gains in the standardization samples of successive versions of Stanford-Binet and Wechsler intelligence tests

Question 9

Slope bias
(group differences in intelligence)

Answer 9

• When there is differential validity

Question 10

Intercept bias
(group differences in intelligence)

Answer 10

• Occurs when mean scores on predictor differ for different groups

Question 11

Individual Measures of Intelligence

Answer 11

• Stanford-Binet (SB5): ages 2:0 to 85+
• WISC-IV: ages 16:0 to 90:11
• WISC-V: ages 6:0 to 16:11
• WPPSI-IV: ages 2:6 to 7:7
• KABC-II: Culturally-fair minimize verbal
• Cognitive Assm Sx (CAS2): 5:0 to 18:11
• SIT-P-1: ages 2:0 to 7:11

Question 12

Processing speed (PS)
WISC-IV

Answer 12

• Time it takes a person to do a mental task

- Lowest scores on PS: MDD, Mild Alzh, ADHD & TBI

Question 13

Cognitive Assessment System – Second Edition (CAS2) - 5:0 to 18:11
Luria

Answer 13

PASS

• Planning
• Attention
• Simultaneous
• Successive

Question 14

Denver II

infant & preschools tests

Answer 14

• Screening device for developmental delays

- Ages 0 to 6 years

Question 15

Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence

infant & preschool tests

Answer 15

• Assesses selective attention to novel stimuli

- Ages 3 to 12 months

Question 16

PPVT-4
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4
(Physical Disabilities)

Answer 16

• Useful for motor or speech impairments

Question 17

Culture-Fair Tests

Answer 17

• Leiter-3

- Raven’s Progressive Matrices

Question 18

Leiter-3

Leiter International Performance Scale

Answer 18

• A non-verbal intelligence and cognitive abilities test
• Ages 3+
• Language or hearing impairment

Question 19

Raven’s Progressive Matrices

Answer 19

• A nonverbal group test typically used in educational settings
• measuring abstract reasoning and regarded as a non-verbal estimate of fluid intelligence
• Hearing impaired

Question 20

Group Intelligence Tests

Answer 20

• Kulmann-Anderson: less dependent on language (measures academic potential)
• Wonderlic Personnel Test: 12-minute test for cognitive ability - hiring decisions

Question 21

Learning Disabilities

Answer 21

• ITPA-3: Illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities - spoken & written language (ID lrng disabilities)
• WRAT-4: assesses reading, math, spelling
• SAT Reasoning Test: predicts college success for HS seniors

Question 22

Interest Inventories

Answer 22

• less valid than intelligence tests 4 predicting job success
• better predictor of job choice, satisfaction & persistence

Question 23

Strong Interest Scale

Answer 23

• Developed on basis of empirical criterion keying (including items that distinguish btwn diff. criterion grps)

Question 24

Self- Directed Search (SDS)

Holland - RIASEC

Answer 24

• Realistic (R)
• Investigative (I)
• Artistic (A)
• Social (S)
• Enterprising (E)
• Conventional (C)

Question 25

MMPI

Answer 25

• High L: try to present self in favorable light or lack insight into own motivations
• High F: Deliberate malingering, eccentricity or response carelessness
• K: used to correct scores on some clinical scales

Question 26

MMPI-II
Profile Analysis
SA - substance abuse

Answer 26

• T-score of 65+ is clinically significant
• 49/94 impulsive, antisocial, narcissism, SA
• Conversion V scales 1 & 3 higher than 2: somatization of psych problems & no insight

Question 27

Structured Personality Tests

Answer 27

• MMPI
• MMPI-II
• MBTI
• EPPS (Edwards Personal Prefence Schedule)
• NEO-PI-3 (atheoretical lexical approach)
• NEO-PI-3 (Big 5 - OCEAN)

Question 28

Projective Personality Tests

Answer 28

• Rorschach

- Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Question 29

Rorschach (1921)

Answer 29

Two Phases

• Free Association (subject responds to all inkblots)
• Inquiry (where did u see & what makes it look like what u saw in free assoc.)

Question 30

Neurological Assessments

Answer 30

• Halstead-Raitan (H-R): brain damage & severity (15+)
• Bender-Gestalt II: neuropsychological impairment
• Wisconsin Card Sorting, Stroop, Tower of London : Frontal Lobe damage
• Mini Mental Sate Exam: Older adults screen for cognitive impairment
• Glasgow Coma Scale: consciousness after brain injury (best visual/motor/verbal)
• Rancho Scale of Cognitive Functioning Revised: recovery after 1st wks to mos of head injury (10 levels)

Question 31

Vineland-II

Answer 31

• Used to evaluate personal & social skills (adaptive behavior) of individuals with intellectual disabilities, ADHD, Brain injury or Dementia