Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
COUN 5305: Assessment in Counseling
Final Exam Study Guide Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
Standard error of measurement
✓ -The amount of error determined to exist using a specific instrument, calculated
using the instrument's standard deviation and reliability.
✓ -The standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single
student who took the same test multiple times
Mental status exam - purpose
✓ A formal systematic format for recording findings about the patients thinking
feeling and behavior
Screening inventory - purpose
✓ -brief, self-report screening instruments to obtain a preliminary, overall view of
a client's concerns
✓ -can provide an initial measure of both the nature and the intensity of a client's
concerns
✓ -it can detect issues of possible importance that might otherwise be overlooked
Suicide risk assessment
✓ Self-reported risk, suicide plan (lethality, availability of means, specificity),
suicide history, psychological symptoms, environmental stress, available
resources, other demographic factors
Alcohol Use vs. Abuse vs. Dependence
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ -Alcohol use: when an individual consumes alcohol.
✓ -Alcohol abuse: fail to fulfill major role obligations at work or home, repeatedly
use in dangerous situations (e.g., driving while intoxicated), and have recurrent
legal or social and interpersonal problems.
✓ -Alcohol dependence: typically involves alcohol abuse symptoms as well as
increased tolerance and more severe withdrawal symptoms.
Major theorists & their ideas for intelligence testing
✓ -Spearman's g Factor
✓ -Thurstone & Primary Mental Abilities
✓ -Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Cognitive Abilities
✓ -Garner's 8 Intelligences
Spearman's g Factor
✓ -A general intelligence (g) underlies all mental abilities (typical IQ of today)
✓ -g-factor could be measured with many types of intelligence tests (contrasted
with s-factors which could only be measured by one test or subtest)
✓ -Shaped how we think about intelligence
✓ -If scores from two or more general intelligence tests were highly correlated,
then they likely had a high g-factor
Thurstone & Primary Mental Abilities
✓ 1) Verbal comprehension (vocabulary, reading comprehension)
✓ 2) Word fluency (anagrams, similarities)
✓ 3) Numerical ability
✓ 4) Spacial visualization
✓ 5) Associative memory (pair association)
✓ 6) Perceptual speed
✓ 7) Reasoning or induction
Top Mark !!!
COUN 5305: Assessment in Counseling
Final Exam Study Guide Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
Standard error of measurement
✓ -The amount of error determined to exist using a specific instrument, calculated
using the instrument's standard deviation and reliability.
✓ -The standard deviation of test scores you would have obtained from a single
student who took the same test multiple times
Mental status exam - purpose
✓ A formal systematic format for recording findings about the patients thinking
feeling and behavior
Screening inventory - purpose
✓ -brief, self-report screening instruments to obtain a preliminary, overall view of
a client's concerns
✓ -can provide an initial measure of both the nature and the intensity of a client's
concerns
✓ -it can detect issues of possible importance that might otherwise be overlooked
Suicide risk assessment
✓ Self-reported risk, suicide plan (lethality, availability of means, specificity),
suicide history, psychological symptoms, environmental stress, available
resources, other demographic factors
Alcohol Use vs. Abuse vs. Dependence
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ -Alcohol use: when an individual consumes alcohol.
✓ -Alcohol abuse: fail to fulfill major role obligations at work or home, repeatedly
use in dangerous situations (e.g., driving while intoxicated), and have recurrent
legal or social and interpersonal problems.
✓ -Alcohol dependence: typically involves alcohol abuse symptoms as well as
increased tolerance and more severe withdrawal symptoms.
Major theorists & their ideas for intelligence testing
✓ -Spearman's g Factor
✓ -Thurstone & Primary Mental Abilities
✓ -Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Cognitive Abilities
✓ -Garner's 8 Intelligences
Spearman's g Factor
✓ -A general intelligence (g) underlies all mental abilities (typical IQ of today)
✓ -g-factor could be measured with many types of intelligence tests (contrasted
with s-factors which could only be measured by one test or subtest)
✓ -Shaped how we think about intelligence
✓ -If scores from two or more general intelligence tests were highly correlated,
then they likely had a high g-factor
Thurstone & Primary Mental Abilities
✓ 1) Verbal comprehension (vocabulary, reading comprehension)
✓ 2) Word fluency (anagrams, similarities)
✓ 3) Numerical ability
✓ 4) Spacial visualization
✓ 5) Associative memory (pair association)
✓ 6) Perceptual speed
✓ 7) Reasoning or induction
Top Mark !!!
