Psychological Testing and History

Question 1

In what year did Alfred Binet publish a test designed to help place Paris school children in appropriate classes?

Answer 1

1905

Question 2

This refers to everything—from administration of test to interpretation of the test scores

Answer 2

Testing

Question 3

This refers to the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation

Answer 3

Psychological Assessment

Question 4

What type of assessment evaluates the abilities and skills relevant to school context?

Answer 4

Educational

Question 5

What type of assessment draws conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time prior to the assessment?

Answer 5

Retrospective

Question 6

This is a type of assessment wherein the subject is not in physical proximity to the person conducting the evaluation.

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Remote

Question 7

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.

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Ecological Momentary

Question 8

This is a type of assessment wherein the assessor and assesee may work as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback

Answer 8

Collaborative

Question 9

What type of assessment encourages therapeutic self-discovery and new understanding?

Answer 9

Therapeutic

Question 10

What type of assessment describes an interactive approach to psychological assessment that usually follows the model: evaluation > intervention of some sort > evaluation

Answer 10

Dynamic

Question 11

This is the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior.

Answer 11

Psychological testing

Question 12

[True or False]

In assessment, the assessor is key to the process of selecting tests and/other tools of evaluation.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

[True or False]

Testing aims to answer the referral question

Answer 13

False

Question 14

[True or False]

Assessment requires technician-like skills in terms of administration and scoring.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

[True or False]

Testing is numerical in nature.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

It is a measuring devise or procedure

Answer 16

Test

Question 17

It is a device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology.

Answer 17

Psychological Test

Question 18

This refers to the subject matter.

Answer 18

Content

Question 19

It is the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout

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Format

Question 20

It refers to a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and this response is being scored or evaluated.

Answer 20

Item

Question 21

One-on-one basis

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Administration Procedures

Question 22

It is the code or summary of statement, usually but not necessarily numerical in nature, but reflects an evaluation of performance on a test.

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Score

Question 23

The process of assigning scores to performances.

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Scoring

Question 24

It is the reference point derived by judgement and used to divide a set of data into two or more classification.

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Cut-score

Question 25

[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.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

This refers to technical quality

Answer 26

Psychometric Soundness

Question 27

This is the science of psychological measurement.

Answer 27

Psychometrics.

Question 28

What type of test measures previous learnings?

Answer 28

Achievement Test

Question 29

What measures the potential for learning or acquiring skills?

Answer 29

Attitude

Question 30

This refers to a person's general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing environments, abstract thinking, and profit from experience.

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Intelligence.

Question 31

Considerable overlap of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence test

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Human Ability

Question 32

This provide statement, usually self-report, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative responses

Answer 32

Structured Personality Tests

Question 33

A type of test that is unstructured, and the stimulus or response are ambiguous

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Projective Personality Tests

Question 34

A method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange

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Interview

Question 35

This refers to when more than one interviewer participates in the assessment

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Panel Interview (Board Interview)

Question 36

This is used by counselors and clinicians to gather information about some problematic behavior, while simultaneously attempting to address it therapeutically.

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Motivational Interview

Question 37

These are samples of one's ability and accomplishment

Answer 37

Portfolio

Question 38

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.

Answer 38

Case History Data

Question 39

It is a report or illustrative account concerning a person or an event that was compiled on the basis of case history data

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Case Study

Question 40

It is a result of the varied forces that drive decision-makers to reach a consensus

Answer 40

Groupthink

Question 41

This refers to monitoring actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions

Answer 41

Behavioral Observation

Question 42

What type of observation refers to observing humans in a natural setting?

Answer 42

Naturalistic Observation

Question 43

This is defined as acting an improvised or partially improvised part in a stimulated situation

Answer 43

Role Play

Question 44

Theses assesses are directed to act as if they are in a particular situation

Answer 44

Role Play Test

Question 45

Who creates tests or other methods of assessment?

Answer 45

Test Developers

Question 46

Who are responsible for the proper use of psychological tests?

Answer 46

Test User

Question 47

What do you call those taking the test?

Answer 47

Test taker

Question 48

On the basis of archival records, artifacts, and interviews previously conducted with the deceased assess or people who knew him or her.

Answer 48

Psychological Autopsy

Question 49

What type of test evaluates accomplishments or the degree of learning that has taken place?

Answer 49

Achievement Test

Question 50

This refers to a tool of assessment used to help narrow down and identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention,

Answer 50

Diagnostic Test

Question 51

This is the description and conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and opinion

Answer 51

Diagnosis

Question 52

Nonsystematic assessment that leads to the formation of an opinion or attitude

Answer 52

Informal Evaluation

Question 53

Tests and assessments are used to help screen or diagnose behavior problems.

Answer 53

Clinical Settings

Question 54

Its goal is to improve the client in terms of adjustment, productivity, or some related variables.

Answer 54

Counseling Setting

Question 55

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.

Answer 55

Quality of Life

Question 56

This refers to the loss of cognitive functioning that occurs as the result of damage to or loss of brain cells.

Answer 56

Dementia

Question 57

A severe depression that mimics dementia

Answer 57

Pseudodementia

Question 58

This refers to the form or sheet or booklet on which a test taker's responses are entered.

Answer 58

Protocol

Question 59

This is the working relationship between the examiner and the examinee

Answer 59

Rapport

Question 60

This assessment is used for children who, as a result of a disability, could not otherwise participate in state- and district-wide assessments.

Answer 60

Alternate Assessment

Question 61

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.

Answer 61

Alternate Assessment

Question 62

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.

Answer 62

Accommodation

Question 63

This contains only a brief description of the test and seldom contain the kind of detailed technical information that a prospective user might require.

Answer 63

Test Catalogues

Question 64

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.

Answer 64

Test Manuals

Question 65

Where and when was the first testing programs held for Civil Service?

Answer 65

2200 B.C.E.; China

Question 66

In what year did Abraham De Moivre introduced the basic notion of sampling error

Answer 66

1733

Question 67

When did Charles Darwin argue that chance variation in species would be selected or rejected by nature according to adaptivity and survival value?

Answer 67

1859

Question 68

What year did Francis Galton explore and quantify individual differences of people?

Answer 68

1869

Question 69

Who classified people according to the "natural gifts" and to ascertain their "deviation from an average"?

Answer 69

Francis Galton

Question 70

Who pioneered the use of a statistical concept central to psychological experimentation and testing: the coefficient of correlation?

Answer 70

Francis Galton

Question 71

What did Karl Pearson develop?

Answer 71

Product-Moment Correlation Technique

Question 72

Who founded the first experimental psychology laboratory in Germany?

Answer 72

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 73

Who viewed individual differences as a frustrating source of error?

Answer 73

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 74

Who coined the term Mental Test?

Answer 74

James McKeen Cattell

Question 75

This person originated the concept of test reliability as well as building mathematical framework for the statistical technique of factor analysis.

Answer 75

Charles Spearman

Question 76

Who collaborated with Alfred Binet on papers suggesting how mental tests could be used to measure higher mental processes?

Answer 76

Victor Henri

Question 77

Who conducted an early experimentation with the word association technique as a formal test?

Answer 77

Emil Kraepelin

Question 78

He is one of the founding founders of modern psychiatry.

Answer 78

Emil Kraepelin

Question 79

[True or False] Lightner Witmer pioneered the classification and diagnosis of mental disorders.

Answer 79

False

Question 80

He is known as "Little know founder of Clinical Psychology"

Answer 80

Lightner Witmer

Question 81

When did Alfred Binet and Victor Henri publish several articles in which they argued for the measurement of abilities?

Answer 81

1895

Question 82

When was the first intelligence test designed to help identify Paris schoolchildren with ID published?

Answer 82

1905