Test conditions will normally be similar to those used to standardize the test. -extraversion Exceptions may occur when test takers, or their guardians, consent to release the test results to others or when testing professionals are authorized by law to release test results. Which test is he using? Nat is thoughtful and well liked. If the earliest due date rule is used, what sequence should be used? Explain, if a test taker refuses to take or complete a voluntary test, either orally or in writing, what the negative consequences may be to them for their decision to do so. An assumption made by all trait theories is that there is a degree of ____ in personality over time. D. Rational, When evaluated as psychometric instruments, most projective tests ________. Which of the following is a limitation of projective tests? Which of the following statements best describes a social desirability response set? Webpsychological testing, also called psychometrics, the systematic use of tests to quantify psychophysical behaviour, abilities, and problems and to make predictions about psychological performance. Because test takers have the right to be treated with courtesy, respect, and impartiality, regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics, testing professionals should: Make test takers aware of any materials that are available to assist them in test preparation. Name the factors 0000002308 00000 n
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understanding the heritability of behavior and personality. There are three forms of this test for use with different age groups: the school form, the college form, and the adult form. (Round amounts to cents. Describe its operation in terms of factor markets and product markets. These materials should be clearly described in test registration and/or test familiarization materials. Testing professionals should: Inform test takers that, if they need special testing arrangements, it is their responsibility to request appropriate accommodations and to provide any requested documentation as far in advance of the testing date as possible. He enjoys taking physical risks compared to Nicole who shuns physical risks and takes extreme precautions even when crossing the road. Testing professionals should remind test takers that it is their responsibility to ask questions prior to testing if they are uncertain about why the test is being given, how it will be given, what they will be asked to do, and what will be done with the results. On December 31, Martinez reported net income of $122,000 for the year. Which of the fol-lowing terms describes this principle? FICA Social Security taxes are 6.2% of the first $118,500 paid to its employee, and FICA Medicare taxes are 1.45% of gross pay. Provide test takers with the criteria used to determine a passing score, when individual test scores are reported and related to a pass-fail standard. We recommend using a Testing professionals should: Advise test takers that it is their responsibility to review materials supplied by test publishers and others as part of the testing process and to ask questions about areas that they feel they should understand better prior to the start of testing. If a test consists of a list of True/False questions and is graded using a computer-scored answer sheet, then it is a(n) ________. 0000005992 00000 n
Webpsychological testing might include traditional and more contemporary child custody assessment instruments in their evaluations. Know when and where the test will be given, pay for the test if required, appear on time with any required materials, and be ready to be tested. Which of the following is an example of a projective test? Inform test takers, upon request, how much their scores might change, should they elect to take the test again. Explain your reasoning. The following are independent situations. What is the most common method of test construction? Personality assessment refers to ________. Which of the following is assessed in the process of convergent validation? understand everything about a person all at once. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education. a psychologist's interpretation of a participant's responses to an unstructured clin-ical interview. 0000006829 00000 n
. avoid the acquiescence response-set bias. For example, if someone responds yes to a number of unrealistically positive items such as I have never told a lie, they may be trying to fake good or appear better than they actually are. actors often portray "characters" or easily recognizable types of people. Developed in 1921 by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, this psychological When test takers are young children (e.g., those taking standardized tests in the schools) or are persons who spend some or all their time in institutions or are incapacitated, parents or guardians may be granted some of the rights and responsibilities, rather than, or in addition to, the individual. Tell test takers, prior to testing, about the planned use(s) of the test results. to magnify or maintain existing behavioral tendencies. In a series of studies about intellectual expectancies, Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) found that schoolchildren randomly identified as "bloomers" showed an average IQ in-crease of about 15 points by the end of the school year. Which of the following values would automatically tell the researcher that he or she made a mistake? National Council on Measurement in Education. Mischel stated that correlations between personality traits and behavior were, almost always about .30 or slightly higher. a.b.c. Personality testing is often used for this purposeto screen applicants for employment and job training. Testing professionals include developers of assessment products and services, those who market and sell them, persons who select them, test administrators and scorers, those who interpret test results, and trained users of the information. Complete the test as directed. The C-TCB contains 20 color images that show scenes of African-American lifestyles. You always show up to work on time, and your colleagues say that you are dependable and conscientious. n = 5, N = 20. Projective tests are less subject to intentional distortion; it is hard to fake good" because it is not obvious what a "good answer is. TEMASstanding for Tell Me a Story but also a play on the Spanish word temas (themes)uses images and storytelling cues that relate to minority culture (Constantino, 1982). Receive a written or oral explanation of your test results within a reasonable amount of time after testing and in commonly understood terms. 0000006807 00000 n
At December 31, the market price of Martinez Fashion was$15 per share. What qualities and personality factors make someone a good police officer? To address this need, Robert Williams developed the first culturally specific projective test designed to reflect the everyday life experiences of African Americans (Hoy-Watkins & Jenkins-Moore, 2008). As they were removing the ceiling tiles in room 118118118, with Lock present in the room, they noticed a dusty cardboard box near the heating and air-supply vent where it had apparently been concealed. The basis of the ________ method of test construction is to come up with items that seem directly, obviously, and logically related to what it is you wish to meas-ure. The updated version of the instrument is the Contemporized-Themes Concerning Blacks Test (C-TCB) (Williams, 1972). Because each kind of data has limitations, personality psychologists should ________. Dr. Low is using a(n) ________ design. 0000003140 00000 n
What term describes computer-assisted methods to measure thoughts and feelings that occur during normal daily activities? Extraversion is uncorrelated with happiness. Staff liaisons: Heather Fox, PhD, and Lara Frumkin, PhD, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, Joint Committee on Testing Practices (JCTP). the willingness of the examinee to A police officers job is very high in stress, and law enforcement agencies want to make sure they hire the right people. A person taking the TAT is shown 812 ambiguous pictures and is asked to tell a story about each picture (Figure 11.18). Testing professionals should advise test takers, prior to testing, that it is their responsibility to: Listen to and/or read the directions given to them. WebPsychological testing helps to evaluate an individuals mental capabilities and qualities, such as personality, performance, capacity, and neurologic functioning. One objection to the use of vocational interest tests is that these tests ________, may discourage women or minority group members from joining certain fields, The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was designed to ________, Inventories derived from the empirical method sometimes have items that seem strange or even objectionable to test takers ________, because those items correlated with outcomes of interest to the test developers, When evaluated as psychometric instruments, most projective tests ________, A test created using the empirical method yields what kind of data, Personality assessment would be relevant to which of the following constructs? B. d. Have generalizability but little validity, All projective tests ________. Test Taker Rights and Responsibilities Working Group of the Joint Committee on Testing Practices August, 1998. ____ tests are designed to predict a tendency toward theft or other forms of counterproductive behaviors in work settings, such as absenteeism. 256 0 obj
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Be tested with measures that meet professional standards and that are appropriate, given the manner in which the test results will be used. Which of the following statements best describes a social desirability response set? Which design is best suited for addressing the third-variable problem? What is one of personality psychology's biggest advantages over other areas of psychology? Testing professionals should inform test takers about the documentation needed to receive a requested testing accommodation. C. Philosophical Archer Co. completed the following transactions and uses a perpetual inventory system. Read or listen to descriptive information in advance of testing and listen carefully to all test instructions. On June 15, Seles declared and paid cash dividends of$36,000 to all stockholders. Nevertheless, projective tests remain in use. Test takers have the rights described below. You are using a(n) ________ method of test construction. What is the difference between pool-level and loan-level analysis? Some screening instruments aim 0000001836 00000 n
Because test takers have the right to be tested with measures that meet professional standards that are appropriate for the test use and the test taker, given the manner in which the results will be used, testing professionals should: Take steps to utilize measures that meet professional standards and are reliable, relevant, useful given the intended purpose and are fair for test takers from varying societal groups. Often, sentence completion tests are administered to clients without a clear sense of the clinical questions to be investigated, and, therefore, the appropriate sentence completion instrument to be used. the extremely strong effects of the immediate situation. Beutler, Nussbaum, and Meredith (1988) gave the MMPI to newly recruited police officers and then to the same police officers 2 years later. Every participant in her study completes a mood-rating ques-tionnaire and is then given an opportunity to donate money to a homeless stranger. These true/false questions resemble the kinds of questions you would find on the MMPI. Characteristics that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other ways. A behavioroid measure is a combination of which two types of data? 0000001028 00000 n
At 8:00 a.m., These studies demonstrated ________. What is a key strength of longitudinal personality development studies? In survey of Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologists (ABPP/CN), Sweet et al. There is also an increased likelihood of test takers being inclined to answer in ways that are intentionally or unintentionally more socially desirable, exaggerated, biased, or misleading. This version takes about one-half the time to complete and has only 338 questions (Figure 11.17). 0000007688 00000 n
The storytelling format helps to lower a persons resistance divulging unconscious personal details (Cramer, 2004). For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. B. Its fixed costs are$1,800,000. D. extreme responding, Personality Psychology Final Review: Exams 1-3, memory quiz questions exam 2An experimental s, phisio psych exam 1 review: chapters 1, 2, 3, Elliot Aronson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers, Timothy D. Wilson, Ethical Issues in Pediatric and Geriatric Res. Which reason describes why averaged (aggregated) behaviors are more strongly related to personality traits than individual behaviors? The task of an employer who attempts to identify dependable, conscientious, and hard-working job applicants is similar to the task of the ________ psychologist, who at-tempts to identify and assess individual differences. B. Extraversion Which approach is concerned with identifying the number of fundamental individual differences? This scenario illustrates the dimension of ____. are not subject to the Creative Commons license and may not be reproduced without the prior and express written The box was filled with more than 38,00038,00038,000 dollars in old currency. You gather a set of 100 potential test items are licensed under a, Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney. 0000005992 00000 n
WebThe most widely used intelligence tests include the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler scales. A. You gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. However, the validity of the other projective tests is questionable, and the results are often not usable for court cases (Goldstein, n.d.). State and federal laws, of course, supersede any rights and responsibilities that are stated here. Provide, upon request, information to test takers about their options for obtaining a second interpretation of their results. 0000005093 00000 n
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