RGO BOOSTER (50 items)

Question 1

1. He is the first to utilize surveys as a measure of data collection.

a. John Buck
b. Florence Goodenough
c. Sir Francis Galton
d. Alfred Binet

Answer 1

C.

Question 2

Imagine that the “past you” took a 100-item college admission test
and got a result of 98 percentile. Since the “past you” does not have enough
knowledge in psychometrics, he/she travelled in time to find the “present
you” to clarify the score. How will you explain this score to your past self?

a. Your score is high because you only got 2 items wrong.
b. Your score is average because percentiles have a mean of 100 and a standard
deviation of 15. Therefore your score is 1 standard deviation unit below the mean.
c. Your score is high because your score is higher than 98% of all the test takers.
d. Your score is average because the test was easy, some of your classmates even
got a perfect score
New des stop

Answer 2

C.

Question 3

Which of the following describes how to establish test-retest reliability?

a. A test of depression was administered to the sample. After a couple of weeks, the same test was administered to the same sample. Then the scores were correlated using Pearson r.
b. A test of intelligence was administered to the sample. After a couple of weeks, the same test was administered to the same sample. Then the scores were correlated using Pearson r.
c. A test of depression was administered to the sample. After a couple of weeks the same test was administered to the same sample, Then the scores were correlated using Spearman rho.
d. A test of intelligence was administered to the sample. After a couple of weeks, the same test was administered to the same sample. Then the scores were correlated using Spearman rho.

Answer 3

B.

Question 4

The following are reliability coefficients of different tests. Which of
the following is the most reliable?

a. 75
b..35
c. 1.02
d. .68

Answer 4

A.

Question 5

How do you prove content validity?

a. Administer your test followed by a standardized test of the same construct, then
correlate the scores obtained. You then judge the strength of the validity by the
strength of the correlation.
b. You let a number of experts examine your items to see if it was able to adequately
tap on the construct that you are trying to measure.
c. You take the scores of your participants on your newly made integrity test then
you check it against their occupational and police records.
d. You run factor analysis on your test to see if it measures the construct it was
meant to measure.

Answer 5

B.

Question 6

This refers to the reservoir or well which items will or will not be
drawn for the final version of the test.

a. Item pool
b. Item well
c. Item reservoir
d. Item bank

Answer 6

A.

Question 7

Which of the following tests is an intelligence test that can also be
used for the evaluation of learning disabilities?

a. Apgar test
b. Woodcock-Johnson Ill
c. Bayley Scale
d. Kaufman Assessment Battery

Answer 7

B.

Question 8

You developed a test of creativity, but upon item-analysis, you
discovered that your test fell short of your target reliability coefficient. What
is the most practical way to resolve this?

a, Change the statistical tool to a more appropriate one for the target variable to measure
b. Conduct proper item analysis to determine which item should be retained, in this
way the items of the test would yield high accuracy.
c. Find a test that measures the same dimension, correlate them, and then based on
the results, edit the items.
d. Increase the number of items

Answer 8

D.

Question 9

If you are given,a test with dichotomous items, what method will you
use to calculate reliability?

a. Split half method
b. KR-21
c. KR-20
d. Cronbach’s alpha

Answer 9

C.

Question 10

Marimar took a test on Psychological Assessment and was curious
about his true score. However, his true score could only be obtained by
subtracting the error from his raw score. This assumption is similar to that
of what theory?

a. Item Response Theory
b. Dorain Sampling Model
c. Classical Test Score Theory
d. Theory of Constant Reduction

Answer 10

C.

Question 11

Birdie went to her doctor, Wolfie, to have his monthly consultation.
She had a cold when the doctor examined her. When the results came out,
she was diagnosed with pneumonia. Shocked, Birdie sought a second
opinion from another doctor, who then declared that she is actually
negative of the said illness. In this scenario, Dr. Wolfie has committed what
type of error?
a. Type I
b. Type Il
c. Human error
d Instrumentation

Answer 11

A.

Question 12

Donut wanted to develop a new test of intelligence. He gave this test
to his sample for the first time, and then after three weeks, he presented the
same test again to the same sample. In order to further establish the
psychometric property he intends, the results should be correlated using
what statistical tool?

a. Spearman rho
b. ANOVA
c. Point-biserial
d. Pearsonr

Answer 12

D.

Question 13

The split-half reliability is used to determine

a. If the test can disregard bias despite the number of factors being measured
b. If all the items in the test measures the same dimension
c. Whether consistent scores would be obtained regardless of the characteristics of the test taker
d. All of the above

Answer 13

B.

Question 14

Which of the following is a verbal intelligence test?

a. Raven’s Progressive Matrices
b. Draw-A-Person Test
c. 16 PF
d. Thurstone Primary Mental Abilities Test

Answer 14

D.

Question 15

15. Croco was taking the 16PF as part of the hiring process in a company. However, while answering the test, Croco found himself unsure of his choices. Ultimately, he decided to play it safe and answered most of the
    questions in the middle of the three choices. There is a high chance that the
    his 16PF results would yield

a. High in impression management score
b. High in infrequency score
c. High in acquiescence score
d. Not enough data

Answer 15

B.

Question 16

16. During an interview for his case study, Henry recorded the whole
    interview with his subject using his phone, but forgot to acquire informed
    consent. What should Henry do best?

a. Delete the file, then redo the interview from the very beginning.
b. Use the interview in the case study, but make a note that no proper informed
consent was acquired for the interview.
c. Use the interview in the case study still, as it is common knowledge that
interviews conducted for any reason by anyone are bound to be recorded.
d. Ask for his consent during debriefing. If the subject gave his permission, then the interview would be used. If not, then delete the file.

Answer 16

D.

Question 17

In research, these are statements that are always true.
a. Analytical statements
b. Falsifiable statements
c. Contradictory statements
d. Hypothetical statements

Answer 17

A.

Question 18

18. The intelligence test which is the first to include a nonverbal scale as
    a measure of intelligence, is developed in order to fill the gap left by what
    well-known intelligence test?
    a. Raven’s Progressive Matrices
    b. Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale
    c. Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
    d. Culture-Fair Intelligence Test

Answer 18

C.

Question 19

If a person’s IQ is said to be two standard deviations below the
a. 115
b.130
c.70
d.85

Answer 19

C.

Question 20

Which of the following is not a dimension of the 16PF? *

a. Alertness
b. Liveliness
c. Privateness
d. Abstractedness

Answer 20

A.

Question 21

This projective test is a kind of play therapy that is used for speed
assessment of emotional problems in children.
a. EPPS
b. Matching Pairs therapy
c. TAT
d. Scenotest

Answer 21

D.

Question 22

During World War 1, what test was given for literate army recruits?
a. Army Alpha
b. Stanford-Binet
c. Army Beta
d. Wechsler-Bellevue

Answer 22

A.

Question 23

Why does the item analysis of tests taken under speed conditions
yield misleading or uninterpretable results?

a. Test takers may rush through the items to answer all the questions, and thus the results might not be an accurate image of the test takers’ ability.
b. Test takers simply may not get to the later items before the time runs out, thus it may appear that the closer the items are to the end of the test, the harder they seem to be.
c. Speed tests are commonly constructed to be progressively difficult as they are answered, and so a greater number of test takers would answer the early-appearing questions correctly compared to the late-appearing questions.
d. Test takers might not take the test seriously as most people hate doing things under pressure.

Answer 23

B.

Question 24

Which among the following is attributed to Raymond B. Cattell?*

a. The term mental test
b Scenotest
c. EPPS
D. Fluid and crystallized intelligence

Answer 24

D.

Question 25

If there are outliers, which of the following should you use best? *
O a. Mean
O
b. Mode
c. Median
O d. None of the above

Answer 25

C.

Question 26

Which of the following tests is developed based on the item-

a. Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices
b. MMPI
c. HSPQ
d. CFIT

Answer 26

A.

Question 27

Computerized Adaptive Testing or CAT allows the test taker to jump
from an item with lower level of difficulty to an item with a higher level of
difficulty if the desirable response was obtained. This method is called
*
O
a item banking
b. Item catching
c. Item branching
d. Item picking

Answer 27

C.

Question 28

The phenomerion called the Flynn effect has been observed since
the beginning of the 1930’s. Which of the following is affected by this
phenomenon?
O a. Spatial intelligence
© b. Fluid and crystallized intelligence
O
c. General potential
O d. Logical and verbal intelligence

Answer 28

B.

Question 29

You are now a licensed psychometrician working in an industrial
setting. You are handling the screening test for new applicants. One day, the
HR manager asked you to administer a Bender Gestalt Visual Motor Test to
a set of applicants. Knowing the ethical standards, which of the following is
the most appropriate response?
* 1 point
a. You would tell the HR manager that you cannot administer such a test because of
the ethical standards.
b. You would administer the test then inform the HR manager about the ethical
standards afterwards.
O c. You would report the HR manager for ethical violation
O
d. Ignore the HR manager and proceed to your daily routine.

Answer 29

A.

Question 30

Which of the following is true about reliability and validity?*
A test can be valid without being reliable
A test can be reliable but not valid
A test cannot be valid unless its reliable
A test cannot be reliable if it’s not valid
O
a, land il
b. I and Ill
O c.land IV
O d. Il only

Answer 30

b.

Question 31

24
Which of the following tests is developed based on the item-
response theory?
O a. TAT
O
h 16PF
O
c. Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices
O
d MMPI

Answer 31

C.

Question 32

35
In cases where the psychological evaluation is requested by the
court, we should divulge
© a. Information limited only to those pertinent to the legitimate request.
b. All findings of the psychological evaluation.
O c. All notes and results of the evaluation
O d. Nothing.

Answer 32

A.

Question 33

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setting?
O a. BPI
© b. Wonderlic Personnel Inventory
O c. MBTI
© d. Interest test

Answer 33

A.

Question 34

Test-retest reliability measures

a. Temporal stability
O b. Form stability
) c. Internal consistency
O d. External consistency

Answer 34

C.

Question 35

41
The floor effect is the diminished utility of the tool at the left side of

the distribution. This is noticeable in
a. Tests that is very difficult and yield low scores
b. Tests that is very easy and yield high scores
O c. Tests that is very difficult and yield high score
O d. None of the above
of the following is not

Answer 35

A.

Question 36

42. Which of the following is not true about Integrity tests? *
    a, It came into special prominence after the prohibition of using polygraph test to screen applicants
    b. These are paper-and-pencil measures of loyalty
    c. These tests could be valuable in the prediction of disruptive behavior on the job
    d. The test is susceptible to coaching and faking

Answer 36

B.

Question 37

43. In his study, Alex seeks to determine the level of aggression between
    jeepney drivers and tricycle drivers. The statistical treatment to use would be:

a. ANOVA
b. Spearman rho
c. One-tailed test
© d. Two-tailed test

Answer 37

D.

Question 38

44
treatment?
Tukey’s HSD and Fisher’s LSD are post-hoc tests of what statistical

a ANOVA
O b. T-test for independent sample
O c. MANOVA
© d. Cronbach’s coefficient alpha

Answer 38

A.

Question 39

15
The student had a fight with his girlfriend prior to taking your test.
This issue preoccupied him the whole day, affecting his test performance.
What kind of threat to internal validity is present in this situation?

O a. Testing
O b. Instrumentation
© c. History
O d. Selection

Answer 39

C.

Question 40

46.
This is a specific form of Hawthorne effect, in which the control
group competes with the experimental group.

a. Reactivity
O b. Rosenthal effect
O c. Pygmalion effect
d. John Henry effect

Answer 40

D.

Question 41

17
Informed consent could be dispensed only when the study involves: *

O a. Survey questionnaires
© b. Young children, but only if a guardian is present
O c. The researcher’s students as the the participants of the study
© d. Informed consent should never be dispensed

Answer 41

A.

Question 42

48 The personality test that can distinguish abnormal from normal behaviors.

a. Woodcock-Johnson Ill
b. NEO-PI-R
C. MMPIII
d. MBTI

Answer 42

C.

Question 43

10
O a..95
O b..70
O c..65
© d..80
In reliability, what range estimate is good enough for basic research?

Answer 43

D.

Question 44

Coined the term “mental tests” and launched the beginning of mental testing

a. James McKeen Cattell
O b. Robert Yerkes
c. Franz Joseph Gall
O d. Christiana Morgan

Answer 44

A.