PSYCHOMETICS
COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT
LIFE PLANNING ASSESSMENT
CLINICAL & PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
STRENGTH-BASED ASSESSMENT
100
Standard score referring to the percentage of people falling below an individual's score on a test
What is a percentile rank?
100

***Author of the WPPSI, WISC, and WAIS measures of intelligence

Who is David Wechsler?

100
Popular personality and career assessment based on the "Big Five" model of personality
What is the NEO?
100

**Most widely used personality assessment?

What is the MMPI?

100
Tennessee, Piers-Harris, and Coopersmith
What are self-esteem inventories?
200
IQ of 115, z score of 1, and t score of 60
What is one standard deviation above the mean?
200
100 and 15
What is the mean and standard deviation of IQ tests?
200
A comprehensive career information system developed but the U.S. Department of Labor
What is the O'Net system?
200
One of the founders of cognitive therapy and author of narrow band assessments for anxiety and depression
Who is Aaron Beck?
200
Father of positive psychology went from Learned Helplessness to Learned Optimism
Who is Martin Seligman?
300
Type of validity that describes the relationship of scores on a test with measures of a different construct
What is discriminant validity?
300
Assessment strategy for learning disabilities based on ability of client to learn from different teaching methods or in different settings
What is response to intervention?
300
Popular interest and abilities inventory based on Holland's theory of vocational choice
What is The Self-Directed Search?
300
Lie scales, infrequency scales, and consistency scales all part of this in personality assessment
What is validity?
300
Term describing the ability to "bounce back" from adversity
What is resilience?
400
Shape of a distribution of test scores where most are on the higher end
What is negatively skewed?
400
A quick and general assessment of overall client functioning based on observations, impressions, and responses to a series of questions
What is a mental status exam?
400

***Inventory designed to assess couples' interactions and communication styles and the extent of couples' distress

***What are the Gottman scales?

400
Widely used personality and occupational preferences inventory based on the theories of Carl Jung
What is the MBTI?
400
Best predictor of performance on the National Spelling Bee and West Point Beast Barracks
What is GRIT?
500
Statistical term used to describe the internal consistency of a text based on the intercorrelations of item scores
What is Cronbach's alpha?
500
Term used to describe attention, memory, and organizational skills in neuropsychological assessment
What is executive functioning?
500
SEI
What is social, enterprising, investigative?
500
Personality test developed by Henry Murray requiring respondents to make up stories about black and white picture cards
What is the TAT?
500
Constellation of internal traits and dispositions and external supports that tend to offset risk in predicting mental health
What are protective factors?
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