PSYC 4775 Principles of Psychological Testing

1. Personality tests in which the test stimulus and/or required response are ambiguous are called a. projective personality tests. b. structured personality tests. c. unstructured personality tests. d. achievement personality tests. 2. The most controversial and misunderstood psychological tests are a. group tests. b. achievement tests. c. objective personality tests. d. projective personality tests. 3. What are the content types of the Rorschach? a. positive and negative c. nature and nurture b. human, animal, and nature d. reality-based and fantasy-based 4. The first phase of Rorschach administration is called a. free association. b. process monitoring. c. inquiry. d. initial interpretation. 5. The two phases of Rorschach administration are called a. phase I and phase II. b. free response and determinant. c. free association and inquiry. d. associational and inquiry. 6. The characteristic of an inkblot that leads a subject to see a particular form is called a. the determinant. b. a pure form response. c. an inquiry. d. confabulation. 7. The Rorschach tends to ____ emotionally disturbed individuals. a. accurately identify b. underestimate the number of c. overestimate adults but not children as d. identify over half of normal subjects as 8. Compared to the Rorschach, the TAT has ____ interpretive and scoring systems. a. more b. about as many c. fewer d. far fewer 9. When traditional and cognitive-behavioral procedures are compared, a. traditional procedures are clearly superior. b. traditional procedures are more related to treatment. c. both are based on the same underlying philosophy. d. cognitive-behavioral procedures are more related to treatment. 10. The first step in a cognitive-behavioral assessment is to a. develop reinforcers. b. identify critical behaviors. c. determine a baseline. d. determine the cause of the problem behavior.