PSY 550 Final Exam

PSY 550 Final Exam | A school psychologist strongly believes a particular child is in need of special services. What is the psychologist trying to control for if he or she uses the most recently normed test available?  The psychologist is trying to control the overall learning environment in which the child will be placed within. That would involve ensuring that the child is provided with the most adequate curriculum and academic staff; which specifically mean tailoring such components to the educational need of the child. 2. What are two benefits of the WASI?  The first benefit of the WAIS is the overall evaluation of the intelligence (IQ testing) within an individual.  The second benefit of the WAIS is the overall evaluation of the cognitive abilities of an individual  The primary purpose of the WAIS is to provide a psychologist, employer, researcher, and/or academia with the necessary information to complete their target reason for administrating the WAIS. 3. Identify three improvements of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III.  WAIS-IV provides more reliability and variability  WAIS-IV provided improvement to the floor to ceiling measurement; meaning a wider range of cognitive ability (extremely low to very strong).  WAIS-IV provides improved measures of fluid reasoning, process speed, and working memory 4. Provide one advantage and one disadvantage of group-administered intelligence tests.  An advantage of Group-administer intelligence tests are that they are easy to score and they take less time to score  A disadvantage of a group-administered intelligence test is the validity of the results. 5. Give three examples of extra-test behavior on an ability test.  Lack of focus  Missing questions  Restless behavior 6. Name three recommended uses for the Woodcock-Johnson III.  Identifying learning disorders  Development of educational programs  Developing intervention approaches 7. Name three things that would be included in the best approach to diagnosing a specific learning ability.  Assessing the individual  Customizing an educational platform that targets the weak and strong areas of the individual This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :27:26 GMT -05:00  Develop intervention methods that would enable the individual to remain on task 8. What is the purpose of empirical criterion keying?  Empirical criterion keying enables assessors to develop standard responses to a specific group of questions (development of test items) provided to a group of like-minded individuals that share similar characteristics, thought-processes, etc.  Per course assigned text: Empirical criterion keying is the scoring or keying of items has been demonstrated empirically to differentiate among groups of test takers. 9. Identify two functions of validity scales on personality tests.  Assist in judgments regarding how honestly the test take responds  Observation of whether or not the test take has deliberate efforts to deceive 10. Identify a criticism of the MMPI that contributed to the need for developing the MMPI-2. Identify a criticism of the MMPI-2. What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?  The MMPI was what many considered too narrow. Meaning that it didn’t present in a non-bias manner. The language utilized within the MMPI was considered to be sexist, obtained a Christian religious undertone, and contained outdated verbiage.  The criticism that plagues the MMPI-2 is that is doesn’t hold much validity without a previous psychological test being completed. The MMPI-2 is considered extremely broad. 11. What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?  The purpose of the inquiry stage was to assist examiners to determine the role the inkblot played in the examinee’s response. 12. Identify three criticisms of projective tests.  Test-retest can be an issues  Surrounding/environment having an influence on responses