Psychometrics
Personality
Ability and Achievement
Clinical
Standard Scores
100
Term used to describe consistency of test scores over time
What is test-retest reliability?
100
Popular personality measure based on "Big Five" model
What is NEO?
100
W.I.A.T.
What is the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test?
100
Widely used classification system for describing mental disorders in children, adolescents, and adults
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
100
Standard scoring referring to percentage of people falling below an individual's score on a test
What is a Percentile Rank?
200
A standard of test score comparison based on the performance of a representative group
What are norms?
200
Projective personality test for children and adolescents requiring responses to pictures that depict ambiguous family situations
What is the Roberts Apperception Test?
200
A brief screening measure of intelligence with good reliability and validity
What is the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test?
200
Enduring patterns or traits that are inflexible and maladaptive and cause signifiant impairment or distress in individuals
What are Personality Disorders?
200
In a normal distribution, the percentage of scores between one standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the mean
What is 68?
300
Statistical technique for determining validity of an assessment instrument's sub scales
What is factor analysis?
300
SIAE
What is Social, Investigative, Artistic, Enterprising
300
Author of the oldest standardized measure of intelligence
Who is Alfred Binet?
300
One of the fathers of cognitive therapy who is also the author of narrow band assessments for anxiety and depression
Who is Aaron Beck?
300
IQ of 115, z score of 1.0, t score of 60
What is one standard deviation above the mean?
400
Type of validity determined by comparing a test's scores to another similar measure
What is concurrent validity?
400
Tennessee, Piers-Harris, Coopersmith
What are measures of self-esteem?
400
Best single predictor of academic performance
What is intelligence?
400
A broad band clinical scale for children and adolescents that includes parent, teacher, and self-report ratings of behavior
What is the Behavior Assessment System for Children?
400
Percentile rank corresponding to a z score of 0
What is 50?
500
Statistical term used to describe the internal consistency of a test based on the intercorrelation of item scores
What is alpha coefficient or Cronbach's alpha?
500
Lie scales, inconsistency scales, infrequency scales are all examples of this in personality assessment
What are validity scales?
500
A specialized area of cognitive assessment designed to identify specific information processing and executive functioning deficiencies
What is neuropsychological assessment?
500
A class of clinically significant symptoms that occur within three months in response to an identifiable psychosocial stressor or stressors
What are Adjustment Disorders?
500
Shape of a set of scores on a measure where the majority of scores are on the higher end of the distribution
What is negatively skewed?
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