Counseling Assessment Techniques
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Counseling Assessment Techniques explores the principles and application of various assessment tools and strategies used in counseling settings. The course covers foundational concepts, including ethical considerations, multicultural sensitivity, test reliability and validity, and the selection and administration of appropriate assessment instruments. Students learn to interpret and integrate assessment data to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and client development. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are discussed, including interviews, standardized tests, behavioral observations, and self-report inventories, with an emphasis on skills for effective evaluation and case conceptualization in diverse populations.
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Psychological Testing and Assessment An Introduction to Tests and Measurement 9th
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Chapter 1: Psychological Testing and Assessment
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Q1) In personnel assessment,psychological tests are used primarily for the benefit of the A) employee.
B) employer.
C) examiner.
D) consumer.
Answer: B
Q2) What tool of assessment is MOST useful in learning about the reaction of simulated juries to various presentations of evidence?
A) true/false tests
B) stress interview
C) portfolio evaluation
D) behavioral observation
Answer: D
Q3) Psychometrics may BEST be defined as
A) the science of test development.
B) the science of psychological measurement.
C) the study and use of correlational techniques.
D) the study of psychic phenomena.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Historical, Cultural, and Legalethical
Considerations
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Q1) "Psychologists must use only those techniques for which they are qualified by education,training,and experience." This quote was MOST likely taken from the pages of A) the decision in Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (1974).
B) Ethical Principles of Psychologists.
C) Tests in Print.
D) the Oregon Death with Dignity statute.
Answer: B
Q2) Tests relevant primarily to white middle-class students produce inaccurate and misleading test scores when administered to lower-class African-American students.This was the conclusion of a court in which of the following cases?
A) Diana v. State Board of Education (1970)
B) Hobson v. Hansen (1967)
C) Larry P. v. Riles (1979)
D) Debra v. Turlington (1981)
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: A Statistics Refresher
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Q1) The main purpose of using statistics is
A) to conduct experiments in a replicable fashion.
B) to put data into an interpretable form.
C) to rank-order data.
D) to predict experimental outcomes.
Answer: B
Q2) The T in T-scores came about because this variety of standard score was named after
A) Thurstone.
B) Titchener.
C) Thorndike.
D) Terman.
Answer: C
Q3) The mean should be chosen as the measure of central tendency when the distribution is
A) skewed in a generally positive direction.
B) skewed in a generally negative direction.
C) approximately j-shaped in nature.
D) approximately symmetrical in nature.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Of Tests and Testing
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Q1) Which of the following is TRUE of norms?
A) Norms may be thought of as expressed as normalized raw scores.
B) Norms may be expressed as percentiles, age norms, or grade norms.
C) In essence, what norms tell us about any distribution, is what is and is not, "normal."
D) Norms are best expressed in multi-colored graphs in the context of multi-media presentations.
Q2) When "putting a test to the test" and attempting to evaluate the suitability of a particular tool of measurement for a particular purpose,a test user would be well advised to consult
A) published sources such as test manuals and test reviews.
B) unpublished sources such as colleagues who have experience with it.
C) the test publisher through an e-mail or phone call.
D) All of these.
Q3) What is the relationship between the correlation coefficient and the standard error of estimate?
A) It is a positive relationship.
B) It is an inverse relationship.
C) No relationship exists.
D) It is best characterized as "stormy."
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Chapter 5: Reliability
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Q1) Which is NOT a possible source of error variance?
A) test administration
B) test scoring
C) test interpretation
D) All are possible sources of error variance.
Q2) Test-retest estimates of reliability are referred to as measures of ________,and split-half reliability estimates are referred to as measures of ________.
A) true scores; error scores
B) internal consistency; stability
C) inter-scorer reliability; consistency
D) stability; internal consistency
Q3) What type of reliability estimate is obtained by correlating pairs of scores from the same person on two different administrations of the same test?
A) parallel-forms
B) split-half
C) interrater
D) test-retest
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Q1) Quotas may be viewed as one type of remedy for
A) low reliability of selection tests.
B) previously unfair practices.
C) low validity of selection tests.
D) All of these
Q2) A supervisor unintentionally rates his supervisees less favorably than they really deserve.Which type of error has been made?
A) unconscious error
B) severity error
C) random error
D) vocational error
Q3) A statistically insignificant correlation exists between scores on a new test of depression and a well-established measure of satisfaction with life.These data may be construed as which type of validity evidence with regard to the test of depression?
A) criterion-related validity
B) convergent evidence of construct validity
C) discriminant evidence of construct validity
D) None of these because there was an insignificant relationship.
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Chapter 7: Utility
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Q1) What is the selection ratio for a position that has 1,000 applicants and 5 openings?
A) 50
B) 05
C) 005
D) None of these
Q2) When the selection ratio goes up,
A) the bookmark procedure has less validity.
B) hiring becomes less selective.
C) hiring becomes more selective.
D) hiring is unaffected by the selection ratio.
Q3) Which of the following is synonymous with the term "utility" as used in Chapter 7 of your text?
A) consistency
B) truthfulness
C) usefulness
D) accuracy
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Chapter 8: Test Development
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Q1) In the course of developing their asexuality measure,Brotto and Yule were able to identify about ____% of self-identified asexual individuals.
A) 88
B) 93
C) 94
D) 97
Q2) A student makes the following complaint after taking an exam: "I spent all night studying Chapter 7 and there wasn't even one test question from that chapter!" From a psychometric perspective,this student is concerned about the exam's
A) error variance.
B) test-retest reliability.
C) rater error.
D) None of these
Q3) The higher an item-validity index,the greater the __________ validity.
A) construct
B) content
C) criterion
D) face
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Its Measurement
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Q1) Stanford-Binet Full Scale scores are converted into nominal categories designated by certain cutoff boundaries.For example,an SB-5 measured IQ in the range of 110 to 119 falls into the __________ category.
A) very gifted
B) gifted
C) superior
D) high average
Q2) Logical-mathematical and bodily-kinesthetic are two terms best associated with the theory of intelligence advanced by A) Guilford.
B) Thurstone.
C) Gardner.
D) Wechsler.
Q3) The theories of intelligence advanced by Guilford,Thurstone,and Cattell,are all A) single-factor models.
B) information processing models.
C) factor-analytic models.
D) "runway models."
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Chapter 10: Assessment for Education
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Q1) Critics of the Common Core State Standards have criticized the standards themselves for being
A) age-inappropriate
B) grade-inappropriate
C) ambiguous
D) All of these
Q2) Achievement tests may be administered in school settings for many reasons.Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?
A) To gauge student progress towards instructional objectives.
B) To survey interests in various occupations and professions.
C) To compare an individual student's performance to peers.
D) To help determine what instruction might best assist students.
Q3) Checklists and rating scales are used with
A) infants and preschoolers.
B) school-age children.
C) adults.
D) All of these
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Chapter 11: Personality Assessment: an Overview
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Q1) Personality tests are used for A) evaluating influences on health. B) planning psychotherapeutic interventions.
C) evaluating influences on academic performance.
D) All of these
Q2) "Certain personality traits exist in all people to varying degrees.The assessor's task is to determine what the strength of each of these traits are in the assessee." We would be MOST likely to hear this statement from one who A) has never taken a course in psychological testing and assessment. B) views testing and assessment from a nomothetic viewpoint.
C) views testing and assessment from an idiographic viewpoint. D) views testing and assessment from an ipsative perspective.
Q3) The test used in the study of gorilla personality by the researchers in Karisoke contained how many items?
A) 14
B) 24
C) 34
D) 54
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Chapter 12: Personality Assessment Methods
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Q1) A criticism of analogue research is that
A) one cannot re-create problematic situations in a counseling setting.
B) one cannot re-create problematic situations in a research setting.
C) reactions identical to those in behavioral laboratories cannot be assumed to occur in the real world.
D) analogue research is unethical or illegal in most jurisdictions.
Q2) A person capable of using a hands-off approach to leadership along with a directive management style is referred to as
A) a partial leader.
B) a leaderless person.
C) an unleader.
D) a nonleader.
Q3) The lack of standardization in phallometrics is due in part to A) a plethora of scoring systems.
B) a plethora of methodologies.
C) both a plethora of scoring systems and a plethora of methodologies.
D) None of these
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Chapter 13: Clinical and Counseling Assessment
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Q1) Which of the following is TRUE of the use of the MMPI-2 with Chicano clients?
A) The MMPI-2 is as culturally sensitive as the MMPI.
B) The MMPI-2 overpathologizes Chicano clients.
C) Conflicting evidence exists regarding whether the MMPI-2 is culturally sensitive or overpathologizes Chicano clients.
D) The MMPI-2 was shown to be more culturally sensitive than the MMPI-2-RF.
Q2) The most widely used test to measure the severity of depression is
A) the MMPI.
B) the BDI-II.
C) the MCMI-III.
D) the SADS.
Q3) At the core of profiling is the assumption that perpetrators of serial crimes leave at their crime scenes
A) physical evidence.
B) psychological evidence.
C) philosophical evidence.
D) business cards.
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Chapter 14: Neuropsychological Assessment
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Q1) If a testtaker is asked to name familiar objects,write familiar words,and follow verbal instructions on a test that takes 15 minutes or less,the test that the testtaker would most likely be taking is
A) the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.
B) the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery.
C) the Wechsler Memory Scale.
D) the Aphasia Screening Test.
Q2) A person who performs very poorly in reproducing abstract geometric forms on a paper-and-pencil task is most likely to have a deficit in which area of functioning?
A) visual scanning ability
B) visual response speed
C) visual sequential memory
D) visual-motor integration
Q3) Neuropsychologists use the Wechsler Scales
A) only as a gauge of current intellectual functioning.
B) to help identify neuropsychological impairment.
C) as a stand-alone measure of neurological impairment.
D) to establish rapport prior to administering the Halstead-Reitan battery.
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Chapter 15: Assessment,Careers,and Business
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Q1) Burnout has been shown to be
A) predictive of the frequency and duration of sick leave.
B) significantly evident in postal workers on the job for ten years or more.
C) negatively correlated with insomnia.
D) All of these
Q2) OSS candidates were formally and informally assessed at the OSS assessment and training facility over the course of a total of ____.
A) 3 days
B) 5 days
C) one week
D) 10 days
Q3) An assessment center is
A) a specific place in an organization staffed by the industrial/organizational psychologist.
B) a standardized procedure involving multiple assessment techniques.
C) a method of assessment used for selection, classification, and promotion.
D) Both a standardized procedure involving multiple assessment techniques and a method of assessment used for selection, classification, and promotion.
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