Psychological Assessment Chapters 6 & 7

The ________ _______ happens when the administrators expectation influenced the respondents test scores

"Rosenthal Effect"

The most common sort of dichotomous format is

true/false questions

When all test takers get an item correct, the item will have a

very low discriminability index

Most of the time, a good test should contain items from a

wide range of difficulty levels

Test anxiety involves

worry, emotionally, and lack of self confidence.

Research has shown that it takes at least __ ______ _____ _____ before an examiner becomes proficient giving a test

10 practice testing session

A chance performance on a 200-item multiple choice exam with 4 choice alternatives is

50 correct items

Researched showed that giving tokens that could be exchanged for treats increase the performance of

Caucasian children from low income homes more than for other racial and income groups

Many personality tests used dichotomous formats because it requires

absolute judgement

Research indicates that

all parts of an item or exercise of a test should appear on the same page

The Likert format is used in many tests of

attitude measurement

Stereotype threat

can be reduced by placing demographic questions at the end of the test rather than at the beginning

True/False questions are an example of a

dichotomous format question

Research has demonstrated that _______ ________ by an examiner can hinder test performance.

disapproving comments

One possible explanation for the negative impact of test anxiety is that the test-taker is

distracted by self-doubting thoughts

On a multiple choice question test, incorrect choices are called

distractors

Studies on the computer administered interviews have shown that people sometimes _______ ______ ______ ______ to the computer than they will to a human interviewer

divulge more personal information

Research on the ______ __ ___ ____ ____ ____ _____ have demonstrated that there is no consistent effect on the test scores of African-American or Caucasian children

effect of the race of the tester

According to the APA, a good test manual provides instructions that include the

exact words to be used during test adminstration

For children up through the third grade, a ______ ______ does not significantly affect the performance on a test

friendly examiner

Unfamiliar examiners have

greater negative influence on children from socioeconomically disadvantaged areas than for wealthier areas.

the _________ _______ is the score low ability test takers will obtain by chance

guessing threshold

Praising a child for effort is most likely to

increase a child's test performance

Distractors which are obviously incorrect serve to

lower the reliability of a test

When women are told that they are taking a test that _____ ______ _______, equally qualified women will perform worse than men.

measures gender differences

Test takers who speak _____ ____ ___ _____ should be given a test in the language with which they feel most comfortable

more than two languages

It is important to use test that have been translated and subjected to reliability and validity studies in the

native language of the individual taking the test.

While standardization testing procedures are usually called for, it may be

necessary to have deviations for particular populations like the blind and visually impaired

Members of groups that have _____ _____ about performances tend to perform better on tests when intelligence is described to the as being malleable and adaptable to environmental circumstances

negative stereotypes

You should always guess if you are taking a multiple choice test where there is

no correction for guessing

A multiple choice question is an example of a

polytomous format question

Research shows that to reduce administration errors, test givers should

practice administration for about 10 minutes

Standardized conditions are important because

situational variables can affect test scores

Test anxiety is an example of

subject variable

A test item with four possible answers contains

three distractors and one correct answer

It is essential that a ____ ____ of a test is comparable to the original version

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