Psychological Testing and History Flashcards
In what year did Alfred Binet publish a test designed to help place Paris school children in appropriate classes?
1905
This refers to everything—from administration of test to interpretation of the test scores
Testing
This refers to the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation
Psychological Assessment
What type of assessment evaluates the abilities and skills relevant to school context?
Educational
What type of assessment draws conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time prior to the assessment?
Retrospective
This is a type of assessment wherein the subject is not in physical proximity to the person conducting the evaluation.
Remote
This is a type of assessment that is “in the moment.” It is the evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive behavioral variables at the very time and place they occur.
Ecological Momentary
This is a type of assessment wherein the assessor and assesee may work as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback
Collaborative
What type of assessment encourages therapeutic self-discovery and new understanding?
Therapeutic
What type of assessment describes an interactive approach to psychological assessment that usually follows the model: evaluation > intervention of some sort > evaluation
Dynamic
This is the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior.
Psychological testing
[True or False]
In assessment, the assessor is key to the process of selecting tests and/other tools of evaluation.
True
[True or False]
Testing aims to answer the referral question
False
[True or False]
Assessment requires technician-like skills in terms of administration and scoring.
False
[True or False]
Testing is numerical in nature.
True
It is a measuring devise or procedure
Test
It is a device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology.
Psychological Test
This refers to the subject matter.
Content
It is the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout
Format
It refers to a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and this response is being scored or evaluated.
Item
One-on-one basis
Administration Procedures
It is the code or summary of statement, usually but not necessarily numerical in nature, but reflects an evaluation of performance on a test.
Score
The process of assigning scores to performances.
Scoring
It is the reference point derived by judgement and used to divide a set of data into two or more classification.
Cut-score
[True or False]
In a pass or fail remark, those who got 70% and above passed. Meanwhile, those below 70% failed.
This is an example of cut-score.
True
This refers to technical quality
Psychometric Soundness
This is the science of psychological measurement.
Psychometrics.
What type of test measures previous learnings?
Achievement Test
What measures the potential for learning or acquiring skills?
Attitude
This refers to a person’s general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing environments, abstract thinking, and profit from experience.
Intelligence.
Considerable overlap of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence test
Human Ability
This provide statement, usually self-report, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative responses
Structured Personality Tests
A type of test that is unstructured, and the stimulus or response are ambiguous
Projective Personality Tests
A method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange
Interview
This refers to when more than one interviewer participates in the assessment
Panel Interview (Board Interview)
This is used by counselors and clinicians to gather information about some problematic behavior, while simultaneously attempting to address it therapeutically.
Motivational Interview
These are samples of one’s ability and accomplishment
Portfolio
This refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to an assessee.
Case History Data
It is a report or illustrative account concerning a person or an event that was compiled on the basis of case history data
Case Study
It is a result of the varied forces that drive decision-makers to reach a consensus
Groupthink
This refers to monitoring actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions
Behavioral Observation
What type of observation refers to observing humans in a natural setting?
Naturalistic Observation
This is defined as acting an improvised or partially improvised part in a stimulated situation
Role Play
Theses assesses are directed to act as if they are in a particular situation
Role Play Test
Who creates tests or other methods of assessment?
Test Developers
Who are responsible for the proper use of psychological tests?
Test User
What do you call those taking the test?
Test taker
On the basis of archival records, artifacts, and interviews previously conducted with the deceased assess or people who knew him or her.
Psychological Autopsy
What type of test evaluates accomplishments or the degree of learning that has taken place?
Achievement Test
This refers to a tool of assessment used to help narrow down and identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention,
Diagnostic Test
This is the description and conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and opinion
Diagnosis
Nonsystematic assessment that leads to the formation of an opinion or attitude
Informal Evaluation
Tests and assessments are used to help screen or diagnose behavior problems.
Clinical Settings
Its goal is to improve the client in terms of adjustment, productivity, or some related variables.
Counseling Setting
These variables are related to perceived stress, loneliness, sources of satisfaction, personal values, quality of living conditions, and quality of friendships, and other social support.
Quality of Life
This refers to the loss of cognitive functioning that occurs as the result of damage to or loss of brain cells.
Dementia
A severe depression that mimics dementia
Pseudodementia
This refers to the form or sheet or booklet on which a test taker’s responses are entered.
Protocol
This is the working relationship between the examiner and the examinee
Rapport
This assessment is used for children who, as a result of a disability, could not otherwise participate in state- and district-wide assessments.
Alternate Assessment
This is an evaluative or diagnostic procedure or process that varies from the usual, customary, or standardized way a measurement is derived, either by virtue of some special accommodation made to the assessee or by means of alternative methods designed to measure same variables.
Alternate Assessment
This refers to the adaptation of a test procedure, or situation of one test or another, to make the assessment more suitable for an assessee with an exceptional needs.
Accommodation
This contains only a brief description of the test and seldom contain the kind of detailed technical information that a prospective user might require.
Test Catalogues
This refers to a detailed information concerning the development of a particular test and technical information relating to it should be found in the test.
Test Manuals
Where and when was the first testing programs held for Civil Service?
2200 B.C.E.; China
In what year did Abraham De Moivre introduced the basic notion of sampling error
1733
When did Charles Darwin argue that chance variation in species would be selected or rejected by nature according to adaptivity and survival value?
1859
What year did Francis Galton explore and quantify individual differences of people?
1869
Who classified people according to the “natural gifts” and to ascertain their “deviation from an average”?
Francis Galton
Who pioneered the use of a statistical concept central to psychological experimentation and testing: the coefficient of correlation?
Francis Galton
What did Karl Pearson develop?
Product-Moment Correlation Technique
Who founded the first experimental psychology laboratory in Germany?
Wilhelm Wundt
Who viewed individual differences as a frustrating source of error?
Wilhelm Wundt
Who coined the term Mental Test?
James McKeen Cattell
This person originated the concept of test reliability as well as building mathematical framework for the statistical technique of factor analysis.
Charles Spearman
Who collaborated with Alfred Binet on papers suggesting how mental tests could be used to measure higher mental processes?
Victor Henri
Who conducted an early experimentation with the word association technique as a formal test?
Emil Kraepelin
He is one of the founding founders of modern psychiatry.
Emil Kraepelin
[True or False] Lightner Witmer pioneered the classification and diagnosis of mental disorders.
False
He is known as “Little know founder of Clinical Psychology”
Lightner Witmer
When did Alfred Binet and Victor Henri publish several articles in which they argued for the measurement of abilities?
1895
When was the first intelligence test designed to help identify Paris schoolchildren with ID published?
1905
