PSYCH ASSESSMENT B. Many psychological tests are designed to draw inferences
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the statement carefully and select the best about underlying attributes or characteristics.
answer. a. Only A
b. Only B
c. Both A&B
1. Which of the statements below is more likely a description of Standard d. None of the above
Deviation?
a. It gives an index of how widely the scores are dispersed about 8. Andy who is a Psychology student decided to do research on the
the mean following variables: Socio economic status of the prisoners, Religion and
b. The standard deviation is actually the square root of the the level of subjective well-being. In her variables, religion is under what
variance. scale of measurement?
c. The larger the standard deviation, the more widely scattered a. Ordinal
the scores b. Interval
d. All of the above c. Nominal
d. Ratio
2. All of the statements are correct regarding Test Reliability, except for
one: 9. Winnie obtained the following scores she conducted on her research 28,
a. Refers to the accuracy or consistency of measurement or the 10, 5, 3, 31, 35, 7, 2, what is the range of the data?
degree to which test scores are consistent, dependable, a. 33
repeatable and free from errors or free from bias. b. 12
b. test reliability indicates the extent to which individual c. 25
differences in test scores are attributable to “true differences in d. 17
the characteristics under consideration”
10. Teacher Angel plot the scores of her students in the line graph, the line
c. The goal of reliability theory is to estimate errors in
graph shows that the tail end is concentrated on the right side of the graph,
measurement and to suggest ways of improving tests so that
what could the graph below means? (Image A)
errors are minimized
a. the test is difficult
d. Despite optimum testing conditions, a test is a perfectly reliable
b. the test is easy
instrument
c. the test is neither easy nor difficult
3. Malou is one of the participants in a research study conducted in her d. the test is not valid
company, during the month of June she was given a test measuring Job
Image A
Satisfaction. After one month, the Human Resource Office who conducted
the study, administered the same set of test to her. What kind of reliability
method is described in this item?
a. Split-Half Reliability
b. Concurrent Criterion Related
c. Test-Retest
d. Parallel Form
4. It is defined as set of items that are designed to measure characteristics
of human beings that pertain to behavior.
a. Psychological Assessment Tools
b. Psychological Test
c. Psychological Testing
d. Psychological Assessment
5. He devised a series of tests for evaluating emotionally impaired persons
a. Emil Kraeplin
b. Sigmund Freud 11. Tyler is a Grade 12 student who decided to pursue his college degree
c. Francis Galton in CLSU, in order for him to be admitted to the university, he must pass the
d. Lewis Terman cut-off score of 75 set by the university admissions office. Identify what is
being described in the situation.
6. The evidence that psychological testing already started (though not a. Norm-referenced test
formal) can be traced back to b. Criterion referenced test
a. developed and administered competitive examinations for c. Standardization
governmental jobs in America d. Grade norms
b. public service examinations in China
c. way of measuring strength and ability to work in ancient 12. Which among the following is NOT considered an affective instrument?
Babylon a. Career test
d. None of the above b. Attitudinal test
c. Perceptual test Kase a vision siya
7. A. psychological constructs are really theoretical abstraction, d. Temperamental test
they cannot be measured directly
, 13. Rory is a Psychometrician who works in an educational setting; she visits every 2 months for the past year. Which level of measurement is
was tasked to create a test on the college entrance exam to foresee the being described in this situation?
1st semester grade point average of the students. What type of Validity a. Ordinal
should she utilize? b. Interval
a. Content Validity c. Nominal
b. Criterion Validity d. Ratio
c. Construct Validity
d. Predictive Validity 21. The students’ test scores obtained from their preliminary examination
in Understanding the Self are the following: 45, 28, 75, 58, 96, 30, 88, and
14. Psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of behavior. 62, what is the mean average of their score?
It is a measurement instrument that has three defining characteristics a. 43.5
except: b. 70
a. a sample of behaviour c. 60.25
b. it can yield different test scores on the same test across time d. 55
c. the sample is obtained under standardized conditions
d. There are established rules for scoring or obtaining quantitative 22. An instructor of Physics who works a part time job in 2 universities
information from the behavior sample. gives a physics test to students in both University. Scores of students in
University A were compared to the scores of students in University B
15. An item in the test you are constructing scored .03 in discrimination having the same chosen program and year level. What describes this
index. This means that: situation?
a. The item has a high reliability a. Norm-referenced test
b. The item has a high validity b. Criterion referenced test
c. The item must be removed c. Standardization
d. The item must be place in the beginning of the test format d. Grade norms
16. On what year and where did Wundt establish the first psychological 23. Gina and her group is conducting research on their Filipino Psychology
laboratory that marked the foundation of psychology as “science”? subject about “Lakas ng loob”, her group consulted the faculty members of
a. 1879; Vienna, Austria Psychology and Social Science to help them identify whether the items
b. 1869; Leipzig, Germany they created and the definition of Lakas ng loob represented the universal
c. 1879; Leipzig, Germany meaning in the Filipino context. What type of Validity they employed?
d. 1869; Vienna, Austria a. Concurrent Validity
b. Criterion Validity
17. Delle is a Guidance Counselor who wants to create a test which c. Construct Validity
measures the career interests of the Grade 12 students, in the d. Content Validity
classification of tests what kind of behavior domain will it measured?
a. Psychomotor instrument 24. It is concerned with determining the extent to how some things (such
b. Affective instrument as traits, abilities or interests) are related to other things (such as behavior
c. Cognitive instrument or intelligence).
d. Physiological instrument a. Descriptive Statistics
b. Inferential Statistics
18. Mia is a Psychometrician who is working in a BPO company, her c. Correlational Statistics
superior asked her to conduct a Draw A Person test to one of their d. both b and c
employees who is having conduct problem in their office. What should she
do? 25. From the statements below, which are more likely not true about the
a. Conduct the test as what her superior said, since she is characteristics of good items?
already a Psychometrician a. phrased in a manner that produces immediate identification or
b. Conduct the test, but she will not give the results to the rejection
supervisor b. free of excessive levels of social desirability
c. Will not conduct the test since Psychometrician only conduct c. simple in form, affirmative in direction
test under the Level A qualifications. d. suitable for the general population not all tests are
d. Mia will pass her resignation Valid
26. Which of the following is arguably the core element of the test
19. In industrial setting, psychological test can be used in the following development process?
except: a. The reliability of the test
a. Selection of new employees b. The validity of the test
b. Evaluation of programs and products c. The establishment of the norms
c. Assessment of consumer behaviour d. The standardization process
d. Evaluation for clinical assessment
27. How to assess the reliability of a test through alternate forms of parallel
20. Princess owns a dog, one day she decided to go to her pet’s clinic to forms?
ask for her dog’s medical records and counts the number of times they a. Make a correlation of the two halves of the test
visited and see her dog’s Veterinarian for the past year. She recorded 3 a. b.Use cronbach's alpha
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the statement carefully and select the best about underlying attributes or characteristics.
answer. a. Only A
b. Only B
c. Both A&B
1. Which of the statements below is more likely a description of Standard d. None of the above
Deviation?
a. It gives an index of how widely the scores are dispersed about 8. Andy who is a Psychology student decided to do research on the
the mean following variables: Socio economic status of the prisoners, Religion and
b. The standard deviation is actually the square root of the the level of subjective well-being. In her variables, religion is under what
variance. scale of measurement?
c. The larger the standard deviation, the more widely scattered a. Ordinal
the scores b. Interval
d. All of the above c. Nominal
d. Ratio
2. All of the statements are correct regarding Test Reliability, except for
one: 9. Winnie obtained the following scores she conducted on her research 28,
a. Refers to the accuracy or consistency of measurement or the 10, 5, 3, 31, 35, 7, 2, what is the range of the data?
degree to which test scores are consistent, dependable, a. 33
repeatable and free from errors or free from bias. b. 12
b. test reliability indicates the extent to which individual c. 25
differences in test scores are attributable to “true differences in d. 17
the characteristics under consideration”
10. Teacher Angel plot the scores of her students in the line graph, the line
c. The goal of reliability theory is to estimate errors in
graph shows that the tail end is concentrated on the right side of the graph,
measurement and to suggest ways of improving tests so that
what could the graph below means? (Image A)
errors are minimized
a. the test is difficult
d. Despite optimum testing conditions, a test is a perfectly reliable
b. the test is easy
instrument
c. the test is neither easy nor difficult
3. Malou is one of the participants in a research study conducted in her d. the test is not valid
company, during the month of June she was given a test measuring Job
Image A
Satisfaction. After one month, the Human Resource Office who conducted
the study, administered the same set of test to her. What kind of reliability
method is described in this item?
a. Split-Half Reliability
b. Concurrent Criterion Related
c. Test-Retest
d. Parallel Form
4. It is defined as set of items that are designed to measure characteristics
of human beings that pertain to behavior.
a. Psychological Assessment Tools
b. Psychological Test
c. Psychological Testing
d. Psychological Assessment
5. He devised a series of tests for evaluating emotionally impaired persons
a. Emil Kraeplin
b. Sigmund Freud 11. Tyler is a Grade 12 student who decided to pursue his college degree
c. Francis Galton in CLSU, in order for him to be admitted to the university, he must pass the
d. Lewis Terman cut-off score of 75 set by the university admissions office. Identify what is
being described in the situation.
6. The evidence that psychological testing already started (though not a. Norm-referenced test
formal) can be traced back to b. Criterion referenced test
a. developed and administered competitive examinations for c. Standardization
governmental jobs in America d. Grade norms
b. public service examinations in China
c. way of measuring strength and ability to work in ancient 12. Which among the following is NOT considered an affective instrument?
Babylon a. Career test
d. None of the above b. Attitudinal test
c. Perceptual test Kase a vision siya
7. A. psychological constructs are really theoretical abstraction, d. Temperamental test
they cannot be measured directly
, 13. Rory is a Psychometrician who works in an educational setting; she visits every 2 months for the past year. Which level of measurement is
was tasked to create a test on the college entrance exam to foresee the being described in this situation?
1st semester grade point average of the students. What type of Validity a. Ordinal
should she utilize? b. Interval
a. Content Validity c. Nominal
b. Criterion Validity d. Ratio
c. Construct Validity
d. Predictive Validity 21. The students’ test scores obtained from their preliminary examination
in Understanding the Self are the following: 45, 28, 75, 58, 96, 30, 88, and
14. Psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of behavior. 62, what is the mean average of their score?
It is a measurement instrument that has three defining characteristics a. 43.5
except: b. 70
a. a sample of behaviour c. 60.25
b. it can yield different test scores on the same test across time d. 55
c. the sample is obtained under standardized conditions
d. There are established rules for scoring or obtaining quantitative 22. An instructor of Physics who works a part time job in 2 universities
information from the behavior sample. gives a physics test to students in both University. Scores of students in
University A were compared to the scores of students in University B
15. An item in the test you are constructing scored .03 in discrimination having the same chosen program and year level. What describes this
index. This means that: situation?
a. The item has a high reliability a. Norm-referenced test
b. The item has a high validity b. Criterion referenced test
c. The item must be removed c. Standardization
d. The item must be place in the beginning of the test format d. Grade norms
16. On what year and where did Wundt establish the first psychological 23. Gina and her group is conducting research on their Filipino Psychology
laboratory that marked the foundation of psychology as “science”? subject about “Lakas ng loob”, her group consulted the faculty members of
a. 1879; Vienna, Austria Psychology and Social Science to help them identify whether the items
b. 1869; Leipzig, Germany they created and the definition of Lakas ng loob represented the universal
c. 1879; Leipzig, Germany meaning in the Filipino context. What type of Validity they employed?
d. 1869; Vienna, Austria a. Concurrent Validity
b. Criterion Validity
17. Delle is a Guidance Counselor who wants to create a test which c. Construct Validity
measures the career interests of the Grade 12 students, in the d. Content Validity
classification of tests what kind of behavior domain will it measured?
a. Psychomotor instrument 24. It is concerned with determining the extent to how some things (such
b. Affective instrument as traits, abilities or interests) are related to other things (such as behavior
c. Cognitive instrument or intelligence).
d. Physiological instrument a. Descriptive Statistics
b. Inferential Statistics
18. Mia is a Psychometrician who is working in a BPO company, her c. Correlational Statistics
superior asked her to conduct a Draw A Person test to one of their d. both b and c
employees who is having conduct problem in their office. What should she
do? 25. From the statements below, which are more likely not true about the
a. Conduct the test as what her superior said, since she is characteristics of good items?
already a Psychometrician a. phrased in a manner that produces immediate identification or
b. Conduct the test, but she will not give the results to the rejection
supervisor b. free of excessive levels of social desirability
c. Will not conduct the test since Psychometrician only conduct c. simple in form, affirmative in direction
test under the Level A qualifications. d. suitable for the general population not all tests are
d. Mia will pass her resignation Valid
26. Which of the following is arguably the core element of the test
19. In industrial setting, psychological test can be used in the following development process?
except: a. The reliability of the test
a. Selection of new employees b. The validity of the test
b. Evaluation of programs and products c. The establishment of the norms
c. Assessment of consumer behaviour d. The standardization process
d. Evaluation for clinical assessment
27. How to assess the reliability of a test through alternate forms of parallel
20. Princess owns a dog, one day she decided to go to her pet’s clinic to forms?
ask for her dog’s medical records and counts the number of times they a. Make a correlation of the two halves of the test
visited and see her dog’s Veterinarian for the past year. She recorded 3 a. b.Use cronbach's alpha
