Personality Assessment
This common current day disorder is most closely related to the term psychasthenia, as used in the 1930s when the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was developed.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In the field of psychometrics, preliminary research conducted prior to the stage of test construction is known as ______ work.
Pilot Work
In the language of psychological testing and assessment, ________ best refers to the proportion of total variance that can be attributed to true variance.
Reliability
As the term is applied to a test, _______ is a judgment or estimate of how well a test measures what it purports to measure in a particular context.
Validity
Which behavioral scientist is credited with being the first to investigate associations to words?
Francis Galton
The ___________ scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), MMPI-2, and MMPI-2-RF provide a gauge of test takers’ response sets and patterns.
Validity Scales
This method is used to force test takers to choose between two stimuli for each test item and analyze the response against that of a group of judges.
Method of Paired Comparisons
Advocates of generalizability theory prefer the use of which term as an alternative to the use of the term “reliability”?
Generalizability
This type of validity is based on the superficial appearance of the test and is not considered to be a suitable method of validation.
Face Validity
B. F. Skinner devised an auditory projective test that he called
The Verbal Summator
This type of statistical analysis technique was used to develop Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire?
Factor Analysis
As with the use of other rating scales, the use of Likert scales typically yields ____-level data, but it is typically treated as ____-level data.
Ordinal-Level
Interval-Level
The fact that young children develop rapidly and in “growth spurts” is a problem when it comes to the estimation of which type of reliability for an infant development scale?
Test-Retest Reliability
"Unequal levels of difficulty between two groups" characterizes the definition of a _____, as defined by federal judges.
Biased Test
The projective assessment tool that is most frequently taught in counseling psychology programs is the _____.
The Rorschach
Citing or endorsing only positive attributes in a self-report measure of personality is a phenomenon referred to as ...
Socially Desirable Responding
In his article entitled "A Method of Scaling Psychological and Educational Tests," L. L. Thurstone introduced _________, a procedure for obtaining a measure of item difficulty.
Absolute Scaling
The items of a personality test are characterized as _______ in nature when the test measures more than one trait.
Heterogeneous
If a newly developed test designed to measure happiness correlates with other tests of happiness but not with tests of sadness, this is referred to as _____ evidence of validity.
Discriminant Evidence
Which of the following is the most widely used and widely taught scoring system for the Rorschach?
The Exner System
The MMPI-A-RF was designed to be used in which population? And the normative sample consisted of how many total individuals, and from which states?
Adolescents
1,620 Adolescents from California, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington.
What are the five stages of test development?
Test Conceptualization
Test Construction
Test Tryout
Analysis
Revision
List all sources of error variance.
Test Construction
Test Administration
Test Scoring and Interpretation
Comparing Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores with the first semester college grade point averages of students is a process related to establishing the _______ _______-related validity of the SAT.
Predictive Criterion-Related
Scoring criteria for the Rorschach include: (Hint: 5 total)
Content
Determinants
Form
Location
Popularity