Testing and Diagnosis in Psychology Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices involved in psychological testing and diagnosis. Students will explore the foundations of psychometric theory, including reliability, validity, and standardization, as well as examine a range of psychological assessments used to evaluate cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional functioning, and behavioral patterns. Through case studies and practical exercises, the course emphasizes ethical considerations, cultural sensitivity, and the interpretation of test results for effective diagnosis and intervention planning in diverse clinical and educational settings.
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Psychological Testing and Assessment An Introduction to Tests and Measurement 9th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Psychological Testing and Assessment
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Q1) Panel interviews are used sparingly due to issues of A) reliability.
B) validity.
C) psychometric soundness.
D) utility.
Answer: D
Q2) Examples of a wide array of tools of assessment are presented in your text.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1 of your textbook as a potential tool of psychological assessment?
A) a computer
B) a DVD
C) a two-way radio
D) a cell phone
Answer: C
Q3) The ABAP Diplomate is conferred to recognize
A) expertise in the field of psychological testing and assessment.
B) the development of tests that further the cause of world peace.
C) nongovernmental, naturalistic observation that is eco-friendly.
D) singular psychometric contributions to psychological science.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Historical, Cultural, and Legalethical
Considerations
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Q1) According to your textbook,nonverbal communication or "body language" does not A) exist in all cultures.
B) impact the perceptions of others.
C) convey the same meaning across cultures.
D) accurately predict which way a poor driver will turn.
Answer: C
Q2) Which court case resulted in the ruling that psychotherapists must reveal privileged information if a third party is endangered?
A) Allen v. District of Columbia (1993)
B) Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
C) Jaffee v. Redmond (1996)
D) Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (1974)
Answer: D
Q3) Legal and ethical mandates regarding vocational assessment require that performance on vocational tests measure
A) important cultural factors.
B) job-related abilities.
C) unobtrusive variables.
D) All of these
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: A Statistics Refresher
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Q1) Kurtosis refers to this characteristic of a graphed distribution.The characteristic is A) dispersion.
B) smoothness.
C) symmetry.
D) steepness.
Answer: D
Q2) Users of psychological tests are frequently tempted to treat ordinal data as if it were interval data.This is the case because of the
A) difficulties that would be encountered if the data were treated as ratio data.
B) frequent need to do more than simply rank order test scores.
C) data manipulation capabilities given the equal intervals between points measured.
D) added flexibility of interval level data for statistical manipulation.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Of Tests and Testing
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Q1) An assumption in psychological testing and assessment is that psychological traits can be measured.For this to be true,
A) the reference group used must be people who exhibit and do not exhibit the trait.
B) the test must take into account changes in the trait that can occur over time.
C) test developers must clearly define the trait constructs the test purports to measure.
D) All of these
Q2) Referring to a psychological trait as a construct means that it
A) is an idea whose time has come, gone, and come back again.
B) has few practical "real-world" applications and is used for academic purposes.
C) was developed by naturalistic observation rather than any theory.
D) is a scientific concept developed to describe or explain behavior.
Q3) Age norms enjoy wide acceptance
A) for both physical and psychological characteristics.
B) for physical but not psychological characteristics.
C) for psychological but not physical characteristics.
D) in the teen years but decline in popularity with age.
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Chapter 5: Reliability
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Q1) Which of the following factors may influence a split-half reliability estimate?
A) fatigue
B) anxiety
C) item difficulty
D) All of these
Q2) As the confidence interval increases,the range of scores into which a single test score falls is likely to
A) decrease.
B) increase.
C) remain the same.
D) alternately decrease and increase.
Q3) 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
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Chapter 6: Validity
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Q1) What type of validity evidence BEST sheds light on whether a college admissions test is valid for selecting students who will complete the program within 4 years?
A) predictive criterion-related validity
B) concurrent criterion-related validity
C) content validity
D) construct validity
Q2) A coefficient of correlation is calculated between Henry's score on a test of sociopathy and a clinician's rating of Henry on the variable of sociopathy.This coefficient of correlation might also be referred to as
A) an index of reliability.
B) an index of sociopathy.
C) a validity coefficient.
D) a content-related validity coefficient.
Q3) A test is considered valid when the test
A) measures what it purports to measure.
B) measures whatever it is that it measures consistently.
C) can be administered efficiently and cost-effectively.
D) has little or no error associated with it.
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Chapter 7: Utility
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT an assumption of utility analysis?
A) the value of people and their performance can be estimated.
B) psychological tests are always preferred over other means of assessment.
C) the performance of people in organizations can affect organizational viability.
D) large amounts of information can be integrated to make good decisions.
Q2) A problem with the use of the known groups method to set cut scores is
A) the two groups are always indistinguishable at a particular score.
B) low scores in one group that compensate for high scores in the other.
C) determining the minimally acceptable level of performance on the criterion.
D) the lack of any guidelines or standards for choosing contrasting groups.
Q3) For the purposes of the Ariel et al.(2015)study,"use of force" was coded as being present on any occasion that a police verbal confrontation with a citizen escalated to the point of
A) shouting back-and-forth.
B) any physical contact.
C) the citizen being restrained by the officer.
D) shots fired.
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Chapter 8: Test Development
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Q1) A strategy for cheating on an examination entails one testtaker memorizing items and later recalling and reciting them for the benefit of a future testtaker.This cheating strategy may be countered by
A) a computer-tailored test administration to each testtaker.
B) a computer-randomized presentation of test items.
C) Both a computer-tailored test administration to each testtaker and a computer-randomized presentation of test items.
D) None of these
Q2) The optimal level of item difficulty is MOST typically A) .5.
B) the midpoint between 1.0 and the chance of success by random guessing. C) .25.
D) the midpoint between 0 and the chance of success by random guessing.
Q3) Test developers calculate an item-validity index to:
A) understand why an item is difficult or easy.
B) reduce the likelihood of an examinee's guessing.
C) maximize the criterion-related validity.
D) determine the internal consistency of the test.
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Chapter 9: Intelligence and Its Measurement
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Q1) Convergent thinking refers to
A) an inductive reasoning process.
B) a deductive reasoning process.
C) a vertical thinking process.
D) a lateral thinking process.
Q2) 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."
Q3) The fifth edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale was based on which theory of intelligence?
A) Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences
B) the Cattell-Horn theory
C) Spearman's two-factor theory
D) the CHC model
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Chapter 10: Assessment for Education
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Q1) Critics of the Common Core State Standards have raised questions about the untested nature of the program.More specifically,the questions has been raised,"Would it have been more reasonable to model a new,large-scale,nationwide undertaking after A) teaching processes that are known to work?"
B) an existing, well-documented program of standards and test items?"
C) existing standards promulgated by the United States Department of Education?"
D) Confucian educational standards promulgated by the People's Republic of China?"
Q2) Psychoeducational test batteries are designed to measure A) ability and achievement.
B) scholastic aptitude.
C) adjustment and personality.
D) academic motivation.
Q3) A college sends out an acceptance letter to an applicant.In this example,the college has made
A) a diagnostic decision.
B) a screening decision.
C) an evaluative decision.
D) an executive decision.
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Chapter 11: Personality Assessment: an Overview
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Q1) Consider the following sample item on a personality test: Instructions: Which statement describes you better?
(A)I am unhappy too much of the time.
(B)I am nervous too much of the time.
This item is an example of which type of item format?
A) essay
B) adjective checklist
C) forced-choice
D) free-choice
Q2) Meloy's (2000)biopsychosocial (BPS)model identifies individual/psychological factors,social/situational factors,and biological factors that have been shown to be associated with
A) successful execution of a threat made.
B) higher rates of interpersonal violence.
C) analogue models of attempted threats.
D) computer models of copycat crimes.
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Chapter 12: Personality Assessment Methods
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Q1) Self-monitoring can be both a method of data collection and A) a type of projective instrument.
B) an intervention itself.
C) a means of watching oneself on closed circuit television.
D) a method of increasing the generalizability of findings.
Q2) Ecological momentary assessment is essentially a behavioral record
A) of the "here and now."
B) that gauges duration.
C) that entails verbal input.
D) that is future-oriented.
Q3) Which of the following tests feature custom-created cartoons as its projective stimuli?
A) the Thematic Apperception Test
B) the Roberts Apperception Test
C) the Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study
D) the Hand Test
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Chapter 13: Clinical and Counseling Assessment
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Q1) Novel diagnostic and therapeutic insights relevant to post-traumatic stress disorder in returning vets may be obtained from the study of military
A) recruiting.
B) deployments.
C) culture.
D) groups.
Q2) A classic work by Cleckley profiled 15 psychopaths.Cleckley's profiles have since been re-evaluated by Crego and Widiger (2016)in an effort to
A) formulate an updated model of psychopathy.
B) disprove Cleckley's basic thesis regarding psychopathy.
C) redefine psychopathy in a culturally competent way.
D) contrast Cleckley's work with that of contemporary researchers in the field of criminal justice.
Q3) Which of the following physical signs are MOST suggestive of child abuse?
A) crying.
B) a bruise on the knee.
C) poor hygiene.
D) grab marks.
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Chapter 14: Neuropsychological Assessment
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Q1) A quantitative scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt was published by A) Bender.
B) Koppitz.
C) Pascal and Suttell.
D) Both Koppitz and Pascal and Suttell.
Q2) Max Hutt believed that perceptual-motor behavior
A) rapidly declined after age 60.
B) could reveal personality conflicts.
C) began to decline in the late teen years.
D) was not adequately sampled by the Bender-Gestalt test.
Q3) If a patient performs poorly on a task entailing interpretation of well-known proverbs,a neuropsychologist would further investigate the patient's
A) ability to abstract.
B) possible deficits in organizational skills.
C) ability to be "oriented time three."
D) financial resources to pay for the consultation.
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Chapter 15: Assessment,Careers,and Business
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Q1) A consumer psychologist must write a report on how young children influence purchase choices of breakfast cereals geared to young children.What method of information-gathering would most probably be BEST to learn about this influence process?
A) a mail survey
B) a telephone interview with both parents and children
C) a mall intercept study
D) behavioral observation in a supermarket cereal aisle
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE of qualitative research?
A) It always involves large numbers of subjects.
B) It allows the psychologist to use statistical analyses of the data obtained.
C) It can lead to the development of new hypotheses.
D) All of these
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a reflection of organizational culture?
A) the role of a manager in the organization
B) a parking spot close to the building awarded to the "employee of the month"
C) the annual holiday party
D) All of these are reflections of organizational culture
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