Psychometric soundness is a term which refers to the:

A. the general psychiatric health of an assessee.

B. mental status of an individual during assessment.
C. technical quality of a test or other tool of
assessment.
D. competence of a defendant to stand trial.
Case history is synonymous to:
A. a case study.
B. a role-play record.
C. a biographical account.
D. None of these
In essence, psychological tests vary with regards to:
A. content.
B. format.
C. administration.
D. All of these
Psychological testing:
A. is typically lengthier than assessment.
B. may be one component of the process of
assessment.
C. is characteristically broader in scope than assessment.
D. tends to be less accurate than assessment.
Psychological assessment is a term that applies to:
A. clinical settings only.
B. self-administered tests only.
C. employment, clinical, and educational settings only.
D. the use of tests and other tools of evaluation.
A developer of a new test must answer the question "How
will the test be administered?" The answer to this question
may be:
A. the test will be individually administered.
B. the test will be group administered.
C. the test will be individually, or group administered.
D. None of the choices
Testing is to assessment as __________ is to
____________.
A. blood test; physical exam
B. blood test; X-ray
C. mechanic; automobile
D. selection; placement
With reference to psychological tests, format refers to:
A. the arrangement of test items.
B. whether it can be administered by computer.
C. the procedures used to obtain data.
D. All of these
There are many considerations test item writers must keep
in mind. Which of the following is NOT typically one of
those considerations?
A. Will the test be administered by a male or a female?
B. Which item format or formats should be employed?
C. How many items should be written in total?
D. What range of content should the items cover?
An applicant being evaluated for a job appointment as a
police officer is asked to put himself in the place of an
arresting officer who has just been threatened by a
suspect. This sort of evaluation is BEST described as:
A. role play.
B. portfolio analysis.
C. case history.
D. behavioral observation.
This is a type of scaling in which a test contains
alternatives with five points ranging from "strongly agree"
to "strongly disagree".
A. Guttman scaling.
B. Likert scaling.
C. Nielson scaling.
D. opinion scaling.
Panel interviews are interview in which:
A. more than one interviewee is interviewed by a single
interviewer.
B. a video camera and microphone have been placed in a
wall panel.
C. an interpreter assists in the interview process.
D. more than one interviewer interviews the
interviewee.
This is the observation of behavior in a setting in which the
behavior typically occurs.
A. functional observation.
B. naturalistic observation.
C. temporal observation.
D. peeping tomism.
Among the statements given, choose which best represents a role
play used to assess the social skills of an elementary school
student.
A. observing a student on the playground interacting with peers
B. observing a student, in response to the group therapist's
request, asking another group member to join a simulated
game
C. observing a student in the classroom, in response to a teacher's
question, responding to the question in a joking manner
D. observing a student in the playground hustling other students
out of their lunch money by hosting a 3-card-monte game.
A psychologist is preparing a journal article which reviews
the high school progress of a student first referred for
evaluation in middle school. This article could BEST be
characterized as a:
A. portfolio evaluation.
B. case study.
C. behavioral observation study
D. psychometric review.
If there is common ground among of all of the varied
approaches to psychological testing and assessment, that
common ground MOST has to do with the assessor's:
A. use of a widely accepted intelligence test to measure
intelligence.
B. reliance on widely accepted psychoanalytically based
principles.
C. strict adherence to ethical guidelines.
D. All of these
In everyday practice, responsibility for appropriate test
administration, scoring, and interpretation lies with:
A. test users.
B. test developers.
C. elected representatives.
D. test publishers.
Which among the following is the reason as to why test
takers differ in their approach to an assessment situation?
A. have received prior coaching.
B. view themselves as competent or incompetent.
C. experience stress and discomfort.
D. All of these
Choose the best way to establish rapport with a test taker.
A. a few words of "small talk" on meeting
B. presenting the test taker with a business card
C. hugging the test taker on arrival to the facility
D. having funny TikTok videos playing in the waiting area
as an "ice-breaker."
During the time of ancient Egypt, counseling and
psychotherapy was MOST probably carried out by:
A. physicians.
B. pharaohs.
C. priests.
D. barbers.
Individuals diagnosed with psychological disorders may
have differing capacities to provide informed consent. A
person suffering from which of the following disorders
would have the BEST probability of providing truly
informed consent?
A. dementia
B. major depression
C. schizophrenia
D. bipolar disorder.
During the Middle Ages, the focus of early "diagnostic
techniques" was on identifying:
A. slow learners.
B. those who had scurvy.
C. witches.
D. competent civil service workers.
This person is credited with being the originator of the
psychometric concept of test reliability.
A. Spearman
B. Pearson
C. Kraeplin
D. Tichener
According to history, this is regarded as the first personality
test to be developed after the first world war.
A. the Bernreuter Personality Inventory
B. the Mooney Problem Checklist
C. the Personal Data Sheet
D. the MMPI
A client tells his psychologist that he is planning to kill his girlfriend.
The psychologist has reason to believe that the client will act on
this plan. In this situation, the psychologist has a duty to:
A. keep the information privileged and address the problem in
therapy.
B. keep the information confidential and address the problem in
therapy.
C. warn the endangered third party or call the police.
D. contact the client for an emergency session to explore the
issues further.
Which among the following is the right of the test taker?
A. to know why they are being tested.
B. to know the results of the test they took.
C. to know how the test data will be used.
D. All of these
In a psychology experiment, a value of "1" is assigned to
male subjects, and a value of "2" is assigned to female
subjects. The type of scale used in this experiment is:
A. ordinal.
B. ratio.
C. interval.
D. nominal.
A scale of measurement that has an absolute zero point.
A. nominal
B. ordinal
C. ratio
D. interval
Which part of the frequency distribution does the
measures of central tendency lies?
A. the high end of the distribution
B. the middle of the distribution
C. the low end of the distribution
D. the very end of the distribution
The term psychometric soundness is typically a reference
to a test's reliability and:
A. utility.
B. validity.
C. norms.
D. cost-effectiveness.
In answering the question "What's a good test?" In part, a
good test is one that:
A. trained examiners can administer with a minimum of
difficulty.
B. is useful in the sense that it yields actionable results.
C. will ultimately benefit individual test takers or society as
a whole
D. All of these
Norm-referenced testing and assessment is both a method
of evaluation and a way of deriving meaning from tests
scores. Individual test taker scores are evaluated against:
A. the scores achieved by a matched group of test takers
on a comparable test.
B. the scores of a comparison group of test takers.
C. scores from a demographically more diverse group of
test takers.
D. the scores achieved by a guy named Norm.
Reliability, in a broad statistical sense, is synonymous with:
A. consistently good.
B. consistently bad.
C. consistency.
D. validity.
Which type of reliability estimate is obtained by correlating
pairs of scores from the same person (or people) on two
different administrations of the same test?
A. a parallel-forms estimate
B. a split-half estimate
C. a test-retest estimate
D. an au-pair estimate
Which of the following types of reliability estimates is the
most expensive due to the costs involved in test
development?
A. test-retest
B. parallel-form
C. internal-consistency
D. Spearman's rho
Test-retest estimates of reliability are referred to as
measures of ________, and split-half reliability estimates
are referred to as measures of ________.
A. true scores; error scores
B. internal consistency; stability
C. interscorer reliability; consistency
D. stability; internal consistency
A test is considered as valid when the test:
A. measures what it purports to measure.
B. measures whatever it is that it measures consistently.
C. can be administered efficiently and cost-effectively.
D. has little, or no error associated with it.
"Number of items answered correctly on an achievement
test" is an example of what type of score?
A. raw score
B. ideal score
C. cut-off score
D. percentage score
The number corresponding to a "Pass" on a state teacher
certification examination is an example of what type of
score?
A. raw score
B. ideal score
C. cut-off score
D. percentage score
This is a method devised for determining agreement
among raters or judges who rate items on how essential
they are. This method provides a way to quantify what type
of validity?
A. content
B. convergent
C. divergent
D. face