EPPP-Psychological Assessment UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Standardization - CORRECT ANSWER - Describes two characteristics of a test. 1) a test
is ______when the administration and scoring procedures are clearly defined and 2) when it has
been administered under standard conditions to a representative sample for the purpose of
establishing norms.
Norm-Referenced - CORRECT ANSWER - Permit comparisons between an examinee's
test performance and the performance of individuals in the norm group.
Criterion-Referenced - CORRECT ANSWER - Permit interpreting an examinee's test
performance in terms of what the examinee can do or knows with regard to a clearly defined
content domain or in terms of performance or status on a an external criterion.
Self-Referenced - CORRECT ANSWER - Scores are provided by ipsative scales and
permit intraindividual comparisons (i.e. comparisons of an examinee's score on a one scale with
their scores on other scales).
Behavioral Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - Focuses on overt and covert behaviors
and utilzes various techniques including behavioral interviews, observations, protocol analysis
and other cognitive measures, and psychophysiological. Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
is a type of ______ that involves identifying and altering the antecedents and consequences that
are maintaining an undesirable behavior; goal is to eliminate target behavior by eliminating
antecedents and consequences that maintain it, provide consequences for alternate behavior.
Dynamic Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - From Vygotsky's method for evaluating
children's mental development and involves deliberate deviation from standardized testing
procedures to obtain additional information about an examinee and determine if they would
benefit from assistance or instruction.
, Test the Limits - CORRECT ANSWER - A type of Dynamic Assessment that invloves
providing an examinee with additional cues, suggestions, or feedback and is ordinarily done after
standardized administration of the test to preserve the applicability of the test's norms. Ex) The
inquiry phase on the Rorschach Inkblot test. Ask questions such as, "Some people see something
in this part of the inkblot. What does it look like to you?"
Actuarial (statistical) Predictions - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on empirically validated
relationships between test results and target criteria and make use of a multiple regression
equation or similar technique. More accurate than clinical predictions.
Clinical Predictions - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on the decision-maker's intuition,
experience, and knowledge.
Crystallized Intelligence (Gc) - CORRECT ANSWER - Horn and Cattell; Refers to
acquired knowledge and skills and if affected by educational and cultural experiences.
Fluid Intelligence (Gf) - CORRECT ANSWER - Horn and Cattell; Enables an individual
to solve novel problems and perceive relations and similarities and does not depend on specific
instruction. Culture free.
Triarchic Theory (Sternberg) - CORRECT ANSWER - Defines "successful intelligence"
as the ability to adapt to, modify, and choose environments that accomplish one's goals and the
goals of society and proposes that it is composed of three abilities: 1) Analytical, 2) Creative, and
3) Practical. Traditional IQ test focus on analytical ability and neglect creative and practical
abilities.
Heredity and Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER - Correlations between IQ scores of
people with varying degrees of genetic similarity. Studies have found that the closer the genetic
similarity, the higher the correlation (e.g. identical twins together, r= .85; twins separate, r= .67).
Flynn Effect - CORRECT ANSWER - IQ test scores consistently increased over the
previous 70 years in the US and other industrialized countries. This increased is known as
_______, and involves a rate of at least 3 IQ points per decade and is apparently due to primarily
to increases in fluid intelligence (ability to solve novel problems). Recent research has shown
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Standardization - CORRECT ANSWER - Describes two characteristics of a test. 1) a test
is ______when the administration and scoring procedures are clearly defined and 2) when it has
been administered under standard conditions to a representative sample for the purpose of
establishing norms.
Norm-Referenced - CORRECT ANSWER - Permit comparisons between an examinee's
test performance and the performance of individuals in the norm group.
Criterion-Referenced - CORRECT ANSWER - Permit interpreting an examinee's test
performance in terms of what the examinee can do or knows with regard to a clearly defined
content domain or in terms of performance or status on a an external criterion.
Self-Referenced - CORRECT ANSWER - Scores are provided by ipsative scales and
permit intraindividual comparisons (i.e. comparisons of an examinee's score on a one scale with
their scores on other scales).
Behavioral Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - Focuses on overt and covert behaviors
and utilzes various techniques including behavioral interviews, observations, protocol analysis
and other cognitive measures, and psychophysiological. Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
is a type of ______ that involves identifying and altering the antecedents and consequences that
are maintaining an undesirable behavior; goal is to eliminate target behavior by eliminating
antecedents and consequences that maintain it, provide consequences for alternate behavior.
Dynamic Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - From Vygotsky's method for evaluating
children's mental development and involves deliberate deviation from standardized testing
procedures to obtain additional information about an examinee and determine if they would
benefit from assistance or instruction.
, Test the Limits - CORRECT ANSWER - A type of Dynamic Assessment that invloves
providing an examinee with additional cues, suggestions, or feedback and is ordinarily done after
standardized administration of the test to preserve the applicability of the test's norms. Ex) The
inquiry phase on the Rorschach Inkblot test. Ask questions such as, "Some people see something
in this part of the inkblot. What does it look like to you?"
Actuarial (statistical) Predictions - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on empirically validated
relationships between test results and target criteria and make use of a multiple regression
equation or similar technique. More accurate than clinical predictions.
Clinical Predictions - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on the decision-maker's intuition,
experience, and knowledge.
Crystallized Intelligence (Gc) - CORRECT ANSWER - Horn and Cattell; Refers to
acquired knowledge and skills and if affected by educational and cultural experiences.
Fluid Intelligence (Gf) - CORRECT ANSWER - Horn and Cattell; Enables an individual
to solve novel problems and perceive relations and similarities and does not depend on specific
instruction. Culture free.
Triarchic Theory (Sternberg) - CORRECT ANSWER - Defines "successful intelligence"
as the ability to adapt to, modify, and choose environments that accomplish one's goals and the
goals of society and proposes that it is composed of three abilities: 1) Analytical, 2) Creative, and
3) Practical. Traditional IQ test focus on analytical ability and neglect creative and practical
abilities.
Heredity and Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER - Correlations between IQ scores of
people with varying degrees of genetic similarity. Studies have found that the closer the genetic
similarity, the higher the correlation (e.g. identical twins together, r= .85; twins separate, r= .67).
Flynn Effect - CORRECT ANSWER - IQ test scores consistently increased over the
previous 70 years in the US and other industrialized countries. This increased is known as
_______, and involves a rate of at least 3 IQ points per decade and is apparently due to primarily
to increases in fluid intelligence (ability to solve novel problems). Recent research has shown
