Methods of Assessment
Face to face meeting of the assessment professional and the client
What is an interview?
The previous term for intellectual disability
What is mental retardation?
An enduring personality characteristic
What is a trait?
An innate ability to be good at something that predicts potential capabilities
What is aptitude?
The score or numerical value that appears most frequently in a set of scores
What is the mode?
Watching and recording the behavior of an individual in a particular environment
What is observation?
The gold standard in intelligence testing
What are the Wechsler tests? (WAIS, WISC, WPPSI)
567 item structured personality inventory with 10 clinical scales
What is the MMPI?
A multiple aptitude battery often used by the military that yields an AFQT (entrance score)
What is ASVAB?
Computed by subtracting the lowest score from the highest score
What is the range?
Interviews of family members or reviewing criminal records are examples of:
What are collateral sources?
The mean and standard deviation on IQ tests
What are 100 and 15?
Projective test consisting of a set of 10 irregular, but symmetrical inkblots
What is the Rorschach?
The Holland Code most commonly seen in counselors
What is social?
Z scores converted to a positive number; showing a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 10
What is a T-score?
Any systematic procedure for collecting information to make inferences about a client
What is assessment?
The overall general factor of intelligence
What is G factor?
21-item instrument that is commonly used for measuring the severity of depression
What is the BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory)?
A test that measures aspects of a job that are important that are important to a person's satisfaction
What are work values inventories?
When a test measures what it is supposed to measure
What is validity?
The most important thing to know prior to starting the assessment process
What is the referral question?
Type of test used for identifying and diagnosing learning disabilities
What are diagnostic tests?
An example of a non-pathological psychological inventory
What is the California Psychological Inventory, MBTI, NEO, 16 PF, or Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator?
A common admissions exam taken by persons applying to graduate school where items follow the format of Plane:Air = Car:?
What is the Miller Analogies Test?
The degree to which test scores are dependable, consistent, and stable
What is reliability?