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PSY 550

PSY 550 6-1 Quiz – Modules Four, Five, and Six

PSY 550 6-1 Quiz – Modules Four, Five, and Six

In reference to intelligence testing, the term ceiling is best associated with:

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The most difficult items of a subtest for an individual test taker

The level of difficulty beyond which a test is no longer valid

The data-based judgment of the highest end of a test’s confidence interval

The element of the test environment that may contain recessed lighting

A lay person asks a psychologist, “What is intelligence?” According to the textbook, what would be the psychologist’s BEST response?

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“A multifaceted construct that is primarily determined by the environment and, in general, includes a person’s ability to appropriately and effectively care for himself or herself and interact reasonably with others.”

“An unobservable trait whose meaning researchers have failed to agree on, and which, consequently, has no relevance to an understanding human behavior.”

“A multifaceted construct influenced by heredity and environment that, in general, is related to verbal, quantitative, social, and problem-solving abilities.”

“I’m sorry, could you repeat the question?”

Crystallized intelligence includes:

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Application of general knowledge

Nonverbal abilities

Sensory abilities

All of the above

What is the main difference between the information-processing view and the traditional view of intelligence?

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The information-processing view focuses more on how the brain processes information.

The information-processing view has not yet led researchers to the development of useful assessment tools.

The information-processing view focuses more on separate and independent intellectual abilities, such as musical and mechanical skills.

The information-processing view assumes that intelligence is environmentally determined.

Advocates of standardized testing in the schools argue that testing can:

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Alert educators to at-risk children

Have important diagnostic implications

Identify areas where a student excels

All of the above

According to your textbook, an objection to a standardized testing program might have merit if the program was:

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Only administered on Tuesdays

Scored and interpreted by computers that were not regularly serviced by technicians

Replete with test items widely perceived as age- or grade-inappropriate

None of the above

A simplified statement of the response to intervention (RtI) model is as follows:

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1) intervene, 2) respond to intervention, 3) remediate or intervene as needed

1) remediate, 2) evaluate, 3) instruct and remediate as needed

1) evaluate, 2) instruct, 3) evaluate and instruct as needed

1) instruct, 2) evaluate, 3) remediate or instruct as needed

What do diagnostic tests do?

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Divide a skill into its components

Administer to students who have already demonstrated difficulty

Pinpoint areas of deficiency or weakness

All of the above

According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), threat assessment may be defined as a process of identifying or evaluating entities, actions, or occurrences, whether natural or man-made, that:

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The DHS has deemed to be life-threatening or otherwise potentially harmful

Interpol has determined poses an imminent danger to persons or organizational entities

Have or indicate the potential to harm life, information, operations, and/or property

All of the above

“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 is in the assessee.” We would be MOST likely to hear this statement from someone who:

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Has never taken a course in psychological testing and assessment

Views testing and assessment from a nomothetic viewpoint

Views testing and assessment from an idiographic viewpoint

Views testing and assessment from an ipsative perspective

Personality assessment data are used in which settings?

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Offices of independent practitioners

Educational settings

Vocational settings

All of the above

What BEST describes a personality type?

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A distinguishable behavior of an individual

Context-specific behavior

An identified pattern of traits and states

An inherited characteristic of a person

The DSM-5 contains a listing of:

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Disorders not officially named

Treatment options for most disorders

Disorders common to ethnic groups

State-sponsored treatment resources

To a seasoned clinician, a patient’s DSM-5 diagnosis instantly conveys information about:

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An individual’s behavior, cognition, and emotion

How problematic a psychiatric disorder may be

How responsive to intervention the disorder is likely to be

All of the above

The most widely used test to measure the severity of depression is:

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The MMPI

The BDI-II

The MCMI-III

The SADS

A mental status examination may be administered to:

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Screen for intellectual, emotional, and neurological deficits

Assess thought content and thought processes

Assess whether an individual is oriented “times three”

All of the above

Which of the following tools of psychological assessment is MOST likely to be used in order to evaluate a patient’s level of premorbid functioning?

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Role-play

Behavioral observation

The case history

All of the above

A psychological report is BEST written with:

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The diagnosis in mind

The goal of the assessment in mind

The tools of assessment that were employed at hand

The best interest of the referral source in mind

Validity scales assist the test user in making judgments related to whether or not a test taker:

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Lied when responding to a particular set of items

Understood the items

Misunderstood the items

All of the above

Factor analysis is a statistical procedure designed to identify:

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The minimum number of variables accounting for the intercorrelations between the phenomena

The maximum number of variables accounting for the intercorrelations between the phenomena

The median number of variables accounting for the intercorrelations between the phenomena

All potential variables accounting for the intercorrelations between the phenomena

The mean, the median, and the mode are all:

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Measures of central tendency

Measures of variability

Measures of dispersion

Standard scores

The U.S. Navy is highly selective when it comes to applications for Navy Seal training. A distribution of test scores on a Navy Seal Qualifying and Screening Examination administered to a class of high school seniors would be expected to yield:

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A normal distribution of test scores

A negatively skewed distribution of test scores

A positively skewed distribution of test scores

A trimodal distribution

If the results of an examination are negatively skewed, the exam questions were likely:

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Easy

Difficult

Biased

Quite novel in many respects

Today, when someone tells you what their recently measured IQ is, the value quoted is most likely:

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A standard score

A z-score

A T-score

A quotient

What is an advantage of T scores over z scores?

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Z scores have no negative numbers.

T scores have no negative numbers.

T scores are more precise.

A T score has greater statistical flexibility.