RCS 6255 FINAL EVALUATION
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1. The Binet IV, based on the original Stanford-Binet is based primarily on
a. separate abilities
b. general ability factor
c. verbal ability
d. eye-hand coordination
2. In providing feedback to the client regarding assessment results the counselor should:
a. dismiss low scores as unimportant
b. describe the results in functional terms
c. include a summary that stresses the negative features
d. discourage client from becoming overly involved in test interpretation
3. The CAS was designed to mirror what theory?
a. Maslow’s hierarchy
b. Trait-Factor
c. PASS
d. WAIS
4. What is the test of ability to coordinate eyes and hand quickly using the key letters as used by the federal government in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and the Classification of Jobs (Sink and Field)?
a. K
b. F
c. M
d. E
5. The civil rights of persons with disabilities were built on which of the following pieces of legislation?
a. Civil Rights Act of 1990
b. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
c. Rehabilitation Act of 1973
d. Civil Rights Act of 1974
6. Which standard score for normative test interpretation has a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10?
a. a percentile
b. a z score
c. a T score
d. the Weschler IQ scale
7. What work sample uses a built-in computer to collect data across aptitude. achievement, and interest areas as the client responds to items in those areas?
a. Talent Assessment Program
b. System for Assessment and Group Evaluation
c. APTICOM
d. VALPAR
8. What is probably the most widely used psychological measure for the detection of gross neurological impairment?
a. Braden-Morgan
b. Draw-A-Person
c. Bender-Gestalt
d. Thematic Apperception Test
9. The Test of Non-Verbal Intelligence 2 measures:
a. problem solving skills
b. personal and social skills
c. daily living skills
d. communication skills
10. This type of validity is concerned with whether a measure actually reflects or represents the characteristics it was designed to measure:
a. construct
b. content
c. criterion-related
d. face
11. What instrument allows students to describe what features of their educational experiences they most prefer and least prefer?
a. Learning Disabled Diagnostic Inventory
b. Thurstone Temperament Schedule
c. Learning Styles Inventory (LSI)
d. Learning Individual Experiences (LIE)
12. This resource which provides information about psychological tests was created as a remedy for the natural inclination of test authors and publishers to present their tests in an overly optimistic fashion:
a. Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
b. Mental Measurements Yearbooks
c. The Comprehensive Guide to Test Manuals
d. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
13. Which of the following is not a test administration modification for a client with a disability?
a. presenting written materials in larger type or Braille
b. allowing an examinee to write out responses rather than requiring an oral response
c. briefly coaching the examinee on the test items before administering the test
d. conducting the assessment in the home rather than work setting
14. An example of a test of typical performance would be:
a. an intelligence test
b. self-report instrument
c. achievement test
d. aptitude test
15. Operant conditioning theory of learning chief’s proponent and developer was:
a. Bandura
b. Piaget
c. Vygotsky
d. Skinner
16. When one administers a test, divides it according to odd versus even numbered items, and scores each portion separately for the purpose of examining reliability he/she is using the ------procedure.
a. alternate form
b. split-half
c. test-retest
d. compatible form
17. An instrument should possess ------before it can be expected to have external utility.
a. validity
b. reliability
c. error of measurement
d. true scores
18. Face validity concerns the extent to which the instrument
a. appears to or “looks like” it measures what it intends to measure
b. measures the hypothetical trait it intends to measures
c. appears to measure the whole domain of behaviors that constitute a trait
d. measures the external behavior in relationship to the measured trait
19. Group versus individually administered tests are:
a. more economical
b. more valid
c. more reliable
d. more secure
20. One of the earlier theories of learning was proposed by this person and is generally labeled the ‘connectionism’ theory of learning which stipulates that learning is the result of associations forming between stimuli and responses. Which theorist developed this?
a. Thorndike
b. Tolman
c. Estes
d. Wickelgren
21. The MMPI-2 calls for ------interpretation.
a. domain-referenced
b. norm-referenced
c. criterion-referenced
d. individual-referenced
22. This early investigator designed a series of tests consisting of sensory, motor, and reaction-time tasks in an attempt to assess intelligence:
a. Binet
b. Galton
c. Darwin
d. Simon
23. The ------true score represents a person’s amount of the attribute being measured by the instrument.
a. error of measurement
b. true score
c. observed score
d. reliability
24. The representation of a person’s amount of the attribute, as reflected by a given instrument, is the person’s …………………. .
a. error of measurement
b. true score
c. reliability coefficient
d. standard deviation
25. In multicultural issues in assessment according to Bolton, what instrument has proven robust across cultures, methods, and populations using norms developed for each culture and language group. although some authors recommend caution be used with this instrument in assessing psychopathology because anxiety is not necessarily a source of psychopathology in non-U.S. countries (e.g., Mexico) where depression is common?
a. Tennessee Self Concept Scale
b. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
c. Myers Briggs Type Indicator
d. State Trait Anxiety Inventory
26. An examinee who attempts to appear disturbed by endorsing a number of items symptomatic of difficulties on a self-report inventory such as the MMPI-2 is exhibiting which response factor or “style”?
a. faking
b. social desirability
c. acquiescence
d. positioning
27. An investigator administers the MMPI-2 and another psychological test to 100 patients who have just been admitted to a substance abuse hospital. Immediately, following the administration of the tests, the patients are seen by a staff psychiatrist and assigned a psychiatric diagnosis. The investigator scores the tests and correlates patient scores with the just assigned diagnosis. The investigator is most likely conducting a study related to ------validity.
a. construct
b. predictive
c. content
d. concurrent
28. The ------is the standard deviation of the distribution of errors of measurement.
a. true score
b. observed score
c. standard error of measurement
d. reliability coefficient
29. Which of the following are referred to as internal consistency coefficients?
a. Kuder-Richardson 20
b. KR 21
c. Coefficient of Determination
d. Coefficient Alpha
30. In providing feedback to the client regarding assessment results, the counselor should:
a. Include a summary that stresses the negative features
b. describe the results in function terms
c. dismiss low scores as unimportant
d. discourage clients from becoming overly involved in test interpretation
31. What Act passed by Congress prohibits discrimination against job applicants with disabilities by those receiving federal grants?
a. Americans with Disabilities Act
b. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
c. Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992
d. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504
32. In multicultural issues in assessment “etic” refers to:
a. culture specific standard
b. modified standard
c. Anglo standard
d. universal standard
33. Rehabilitation assessment is predicated on applying research knowledge in practice. Between 1980 and 1993, according to Bolton [Gordon & Petterson], less than what percent of the articles in the four major rehabilitation journals had a primary focus on cultural diversity?
a. 4%
b. 6%
c. 10%
d. 12%
34. Equivalent tests:
a. are designed to measure different characteristics
b. have equal means and standard deviations
c. have unequal standard errors of measurement
d. are designed to be cost effective
35. The Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test is primarily based on this theory of intelligence:
a. Horn-Cattell
b. PASS Theory
c. multiple intelligences
d. Terman
36. This correlation coefficient, which presumes the existence of two continuous variables, is the most frequently used index of association:
a. point bi-serial
b. phi
c. dichotomized
d. Pearson product-moment
37. A stanine score:
a. ranges from 1 – 19
b. is a normalized score
c. is analogous to a raw score
d. has a middle ground of 10.
38. It is almost impossible, and certainly an extremely rare occurrence, for an examinee to achieve an erroneously high score on an ability test by
a. faking bad
b. timed testing
c. faking good
d. powered testing
39. In areas such as rehabilitation counseling and educational placement, it is especially vital to understand the:
a. reliability coefficient
b. standard error of measurement
c. true score
d. observed score
40. Which one of the following is the most widely used personality inventory in assessment practice?
a. WAIS-III
b. Keirsey Temperament Scale
c. MMPI-2
d. Tennessee Self-Concept Scale
41. What percent of persons are represented between plus and minus one standard deviation of the mean? Approximately -
a. 84 percent
b. 34 percent
c. 50 percent
d. 68 percent
42. Which of the following is not a test administration modification for a client with a disability?
a. presenting written materials in larger type or Braille
b. allowing an examinee to write out responses rather than requiring an oral response
c. briefly coach the examinee on the test items before administering the test
d. conducting the assessment in the home rather than work setting
43. When one administers a test, divides it according to odd versus even numbered items, and scores each portion separately for the purpose of examining reliability he/she is using the ------procedure.
a. alternate form
b. split-half
c. test-retest
d. substitute series
44. In assessment of career development and maturity in persons with disabilities, Bolton considers this career maturity scale as the psychometrically strongest.
a. Career Decision Scale
b. Career Decision Making System
c. Edwards Personal Preference Inventory
d. Self-Directed Search
45. In terms of professional ethics rehabilitation professionals should:
a. note that different tests take basically the same level of competence to administer, score, and interpret
b. recognize the limits of their competence and perform only those functions for which they are trained
c. recognize that the outdated version of a test may be more a appropriate selection than the revised edition
d. if available always use the computerized assessment program to make test interpretations
46. Which discipline has an established multicultural counseling research history as well as an explicit emphasis on cultural competence training as noted in the chapter on multicultural issues in assessment?
a. clinical psychology
b. cross-cultural psychology
c. counseling psychology
d. educational psychology
47. Which formula is used to obtain a single index that reflects consistency of measurement for the test as a whole, regardless of variabilities that might result from using on split or another?
a. Spearman-Brown
b. Coefficient Alpha
c. Kuder-Richardson
d. Standard Error of Measurement
48. Which one of the following scales allows persons in a testing group to be ordered only based on rank for a measured attribute?
a. ratio
b. nominal
c. interval
d. ordinal
49. Which one of the items below is the approach to test interpretation that locates the examinee in comparison to a large representative sample of persons?
a. norm-referenced score interpretation
b. domain-referenced score interpretation
c. derived-referenced score interpretation
d. criterion-referenced score interpretation
50. The most common used method of drawing inferences from test data is:
a. presence of pathognomonic signs
b. functioning of two sides of the body
c. pattern of performance
d. level of performance
51. Schmidt and Hunter (1981) estimated that if aptitude tests were uniformly used in selection, it would save ------per year in national workforce productivity.
a. 60 billion
b. 75 billion
c. 80 billion
d. 95 billion
52. When the PIQ is at least 20 points lower than the VIQ on the WAIS-3, this suggests:
a. frontal lobe is impaired
b. possible right hemisphere impairment
c. possible left hemisphere impairment
d. temporal lobe is impaired
53. Higher reliability coefficients are generally obtained when one develops a test using a ------sample of subjects.
a. homogenous
b. heterogenous
c. random
d. intact
54. Who first recognized that “individual differences far from being random events represented reliable patterns of behavior that could be measured?”
a. Weschler
b. Hathaway
c. Galton
d. Binet
55. What battery uses ‘syndrome analysis” as the heart of the theory behind the battery?
a. Weschler series
b. Halstead-Reitan Battery
c. General Aptitude Test Battery
d. Luria-Nebraska Battery
56. An investigator administers the MMPI-2 and another psychological test to 100 patients who have just been admitted to a substance abuse hospital. Immediately, following the administration of the tests, the patients are seen by a staff psychiatrist and assigned a psychiatric diagnosis. The investigator scores the tests and correlates patient scores with current diagnosis. The investigator is most likely conducting a study related to ------validity.
a. construct
b. predictive
c. concurrent
d. content
57. The investigator in the above question replicates the above study in ten state psychiatric facilities with 200 patients in an attempt to determine if similar relationships exist between the tests and the subjects’ psychiatric diagnosis. This is most likely and example of ------validation.