Psychological Testing Midterm Questions With Complete
Solutions
Achievement Tests Correct Answer degree of learning,
success, or accomplishment in a subject or task
Adjustment and Anchoring Correct Answer Tendency for
final judgments to be biased in the direction of initially reviewed
data
Judgement overly influenced by the first page of the clinical
material reviewed
Potential for reviewers to reach different opinions regarding the
same evidence in the event that this evidence is reviewed in
different sequences
Affective Assessment Correct Answer Affective Assessment
assesses all noncognitive features of an individual, including
temperament, clinical disposition, personality, attitudes, values,
and interests.
Structured Inventories for diagnostic purposes, hypothesis
testing, treatment planning, and progress evaluation
(Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-II (MMPI-2)
Strong Interest Inventory
Unstructured assessment involves the use of projective
techniques and qualitative methods
Based on psychoanalytic theory, present the client with
unstructured, ambiguous stimuli, allowing the client to "project"
thoughts and feelings onto the stimulus
Inkblots, pictures, incomplete sentences...
yield insights into a client's motivation, personality, values, etc.
,Aptitude Tests Correct Answer capability in a specific task
Assessment Correct Answer Systematic procedures for
making inferences about characteristics of people. Broader and
more comprehensive than testing.
Availability Heuristic Correct Answer Pertains to the situation
where information used for prediction or decision making is that
which is most easily accessed or recalled
Illusory Correlation (forming test sign-symptom correlations
without empirical evidence)
Correlations based on clinicians' personal associations and
projections than on data
Recall/memory availability and vividness can limit judgement
accuracy
Clinician's memory capacity
Only remembered one piece of information
Behavioral Observations Correct Answer direct
indirect
Behavioral Procedures Correct Answer Objectively describe
and count the frequency of a behavior//Identify the antecedents
and consequences of the behavior
Bootstrap approach Correct Answer Combination of the two;
sequential method
First write items based on theory, next validate items based on
using samples and statistically analyzing the findings.
central tendency Correct Answer MEAN
, MEDIAN
MODE
Clinician Bias in relation to patient characteristics Correct
Answer Cultural Identities of the pt. influenced the diagnostic,
therapeutic, and prognostic decisions made by clinical
psychologists.
E.g., increased organic dos diagnoses with increase in pt. age
E.g., increased Borderline personality dos (i.e., emotional
dysregulation, fear of abandon, rejection hypersensitivity...)
among female pts.
E.g., Increasing age along with poor health ------ less optimistic
psychologist predictions regarding treatment and prognosis
("ageism" and "healthism" in everyday clinical practice
Cognitive Tests Correct Answer memory, perceptual,
processing and reasoning capacities
Intelligence Tests: measure a person's ability to learn, solve
problems, and understand increasingly complex or abstract
information
Wechsler ADult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
Aptitude Tests: predict a person's capacity to perform some skill
or task in the future (e.g., college)
SAT (actually, can only predict the freshman yr of college)
Achievement Tests: measure knowledge students have acquired
through instruction or training up to a certain point in their
academic career.
Cognitive vs affective tests Correct Answer gg
Confidence Interval Calculations Correct Answer O=X+E
Solutions
Achievement Tests Correct Answer degree of learning,
success, or accomplishment in a subject or task
Adjustment and Anchoring Correct Answer Tendency for
final judgments to be biased in the direction of initially reviewed
data
Judgement overly influenced by the first page of the clinical
material reviewed
Potential for reviewers to reach different opinions regarding the
same evidence in the event that this evidence is reviewed in
different sequences
Affective Assessment Correct Answer Affective Assessment
assesses all noncognitive features of an individual, including
temperament, clinical disposition, personality, attitudes, values,
and interests.
Structured Inventories for diagnostic purposes, hypothesis
testing, treatment planning, and progress evaluation
(Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-II (MMPI-2)
Strong Interest Inventory
Unstructured assessment involves the use of projective
techniques and qualitative methods
Based on psychoanalytic theory, present the client with
unstructured, ambiguous stimuli, allowing the client to "project"
thoughts and feelings onto the stimulus
Inkblots, pictures, incomplete sentences...
yield insights into a client's motivation, personality, values, etc.
,Aptitude Tests Correct Answer capability in a specific task
Assessment Correct Answer Systematic procedures for
making inferences about characteristics of people. Broader and
more comprehensive than testing.
Availability Heuristic Correct Answer Pertains to the situation
where information used for prediction or decision making is that
which is most easily accessed or recalled
Illusory Correlation (forming test sign-symptom correlations
without empirical evidence)
Correlations based on clinicians' personal associations and
projections than on data
Recall/memory availability and vividness can limit judgement
accuracy
Clinician's memory capacity
Only remembered one piece of information
Behavioral Observations Correct Answer direct
indirect
Behavioral Procedures Correct Answer Objectively describe
and count the frequency of a behavior//Identify the antecedents
and consequences of the behavior
Bootstrap approach Correct Answer Combination of the two;
sequential method
First write items based on theory, next validate items based on
using samples and statistically analyzing the findings.
central tendency Correct Answer MEAN
, MEDIAN
MODE
Clinician Bias in relation to patient characteristics Correct
Answer Cultural Identities of the pt. influenced the diagnostic,
therapeutic, and prognostic decisions made by clinical
psychologists.
E.g., increased organic dos diagnoses with increase in pt. age
E.g., increased Borderline personality dos (i.e., emotional
dysregulation, fear of abandon, rejection hypersensitivity...)
among female pts.
E.g., Increasing age along with poor health ------ less optimistic
psychologist predictions regarding treatment and prognosis
("ageism" and "healthism" in everyday clinical practice
Cognitive Tests Correct Answer memory, perceptual,
processing and reasoning capacities
Intelligence Tests: measure a person's ability to learn, solve
problems, and understand increasingly complex or abstract
information
Wechsler ADult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
Aptitude Tests: predict a person's capacity to perform some skill
or task in the future (e.g., college)
SAT (actually, can only predict the freshman yr of college)
Achievement Tests: measure knowledge students have acquired
through instruction or training up to a certain point in their
academic career.
Cognitive vs affective tests Correct Answer gg
Confidence Interval Calculations Correct Answer O=X+E
