Psych assessment 9, 10, & 11
George is in his early 70s and received a deficit on a visual memory test according to the Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT-V). This may be consistent with which of the following?
Alzheimers disease
Questions such as "A man sells 12 apples at 25 cents apiece. How much money did they make?" might be found on the _____ subtest of the _____ scale of the WAIS-IV.
Arithmetic; Verbal
Shimone is taking a test that consists of nine geometric figures that they need to copy. Which test is Shimone taking?
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
Which of the following is an example of a visiographic test?
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
Wechsler's criticisms of the Binet scales related to the _____.
Binet scale's inadequate measurement of adult intelligence
Neither fine motor skills nor verbal responses are required for which test?
CMMS
Sasha is 4 years old and is taking a test where they have to indicate which drawing does not belong on a 6-by-9-inch card that contains three to five drawings. Which test are they taking?
CMMS
Which test can evaluate ability in children who are typical and those who have physical disabilities from ages 3 to 12 years?
CMMS
What is the most widely used individual achievement test?
Wide Range Achievement Test-4 (WRAT-4)
Which test is an individual scale of achievement that purports to measure reading, spelling, and arithmetic?
Wide Range Achievement Test-4 (WRAT-4)
A 7-year-old child has demonstrated that they are able to complete tasks that an average 10-year-old can complete. This means that the 7-year-old's mental age is _____.
10
On all the Wechsler scales, subtest scores have a mean of _____ and a standard deviation of _____, whereas the Full Scale IQ has a mean of _____ and a standard deviation of _____.
10; 3; 100; 15
Jonah is a 10-year-old child. Jonah was found to have a mental age of 5 on the 1916 Stanford-Binet scale. This means that their intelligent quotient (IQ) would be _____.
50
The WISC-V has _____ index scores.
Five
Which scale of intelligence in infants and young children employs a developmental quotient (DQ) that is evaluated by assessing the presence or absence of behavior associated with maturation?
Gessell Developmental Schedules (GDS)
Which of the following is a psychometric property of the WAIS-III?
Internal consistency reliabilities for the non-speeded subtests are very strong.
Which of the following is false regarding the psychometric properties of the Stanford-Binet fifth edition?
Interscorer agreement was relatively low, with average coefficients of .50 to .60.
Why was the standardization sample of the 1916 Stanford-Binet scale considered inadequate?
It was comprised exclusively of white children from California
Which test provides both an ability/intelligence score and a corresponding achievement score?
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition (KABC-II)
Which scale is a measure of ability in children that has been employed in studies of early intervention of at-risk children, the effects of mothers' smoking and exposure to lead on children's abilities, and cognitive abilities among Mexican American children?
McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA)
According to Spearman, g can be best conceptualized as _____.
Mental Energy
Binet incorporated _____ in the first two versions (1905 and 1908) of the Binet-Simon scale of intelligence.
Mental age
On the WAIS-IV, Block Design, Matrix Reasoning, and Visual Puzzles comprise the _____ index; Digit Span and Arithmetic comprise the _____ index.
Perceptual Reasoning; Working Memory
Who viewed intelligence in terms of general mental ability as well as specific factors?
Spearman
Which of the following is true regarding the debate over a general or specific factor of intelligence?
The debate continues.
_____ is a standard score with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16 (later 15) that was first introduced in the 1960 revision of the Stanford-Binet.
The deviation IQ
What is an advantage of the various individual ability tests compared to the Binet and Wechsler scales?
They can be administered nonverbally
Which Wechsler subtest is one of the most stable measures of general verbal intelligence?
Vocabulary
Jessie is taking an individual achievement test that intends to assess grade-level functioning for reading, spelling, math, and sentence comprehension. Which test is Jessie taking?
WRAT-4
The gf-gc theory of intelligence is _____.
a theory that proposes two basic types of intelligence
Jerome is taking the similarities subtest of the Wechsler test. What is the major function being measured by this subtest?
abstract thinking
To support legislation that recommends multiple assessments for the identification of children in need of special educational services, WPPSI-IV, like the earlier WPPSI-III, is compatible with measures of _____.
adaptive function
What refers to the simple fact that one can differentiate older children from younger children by the former's greater capabilities?
age differentiation
Which of the following were the two guiding principles for Binet's test construction?
age differentiation and general mental ability
A student is taking the 1908 Binet-Simon scale and has been asked to recall six items from a passage. What age level is being assessed?
age level 9
Which of the following is an advantage of many alternative individual ability tests over the Wechsler and Binet scales?
better at assessing people with sensory deficits
Tests for _____ are based on the concept of psychological deficit.
brain damage
For the Wechsler scale that is intended for adults, items have _____ for adults.
content validity
Knowing that George Washington was the first president of the United States is an example of _____.
crystallized intelligence
The knowledge you have acquired through your academic studies would best be described in terms of _____.
crystallized intelligence
A central problem of the 1937 revision of the Stanford-Binet scale was that _____.
different age groups showed significant differences in the standard deviation of IQ scores
Administration of the modern Stanford-Binet requires examiners to continue testing until the _____.
examinee's ceiling is reached
Several special group studies have _____ of the WISC-V.
supported the validity
Which factor is measured by the Torrance Test of Creativity?
flexibility
IDEA provides for _____.
free and appropriate special education services for all children with learning disabilities
The total product of the various separate and distinct elements of intelligence, according to Binet, is called _____.
general mental ability
The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA-3) is based on the notion that learning problems can occur as a result of problems in any one of three stages of information processing, including _____.
input, information analysis, and response
The Columbia Mental Maturity Scale-Third edition (CMMS) is a measure of _____.
intellectual functioning among individuals with sensory, physical, or language deficits
A person's equivalent age capability is referred to as their _____.
mental age
One criticism of the Wechsler intelligence scale is that the role of _____ is evident.
nonintellective factors
Some of the terms that Binet used to classify intellectual deficiency are no longer used today because _____.
of their derogatory connotations
Wechsler's first attempt at measuring adult intelligence was _____.
poorly standardized
An examiner administering the WAIS-IV asks Janan a series of questions, such as "In what way are the sun and the moon alike?" The examiner is administering which subtest?
similarities
One of the main problems with the WISC-V is that _____.
the factors may be unstable
Which of the following is a disadvantage of the various individual ability tests compared to the Wechsler and Binet scales?
they are less stable
The _____ of the WAIS-IV is dependent on its correlation with earlier versions of the test.
validity
The concept of g refers to the ____.
view that one general mental ability factor underlies all intelligent behavior
Aleece is taking the Wechsler test and is currently answering items on the coding subtest, which measures _____.
visual-motor functioning
One of the most important innovations on the modern WAIS is the concept of _____.
working memory
The WPSSI-IV includes a(n) _____, which has garnered considerable interest.
working memory index
