Psychological Assessment Chapters 8,9 & 10. Exam 3

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Ch. 9 Which of the following were the two guiding principles for the Binet's test constriction?

Age differentiation and general mental ability

Ch. 9 What refers to the simple fact that one can differentiate older children from younger children by the former's greater capabilities?

Age differentiation.

Ch. 9 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.

Ch. 10 Questions such as "A man sells 12 apples at 25 cents apiece. How much money did they make?" might be found on the ____ subtest f the ______ scale of the WAIS-IV.

Arithmetic; Verbal.

Ch. 8 What is the first step in developing interviewing skills?

Becoming familiar with research and theory on the interview in order to understand the principles and underlying variables in the interview.

Ch. 10 Wechsler's criticisms of the Binet scales related to the _____.

Binet scales inadequate measurement of adult intelligence.

Ch. 8 Which of the following is true regarding an interview and a test?

Both are used to make predictions about a person's behavior.

Ch. 8 Which of the following can help reduce cultural distortions in interview data?

Conducting structured interviews

Ch. 10 For the Wechsler scale that is intended for adults, items have _____ for adults.

Content validity

CH. 9 Knowing that George Washington was the first president of the United States is an example of ______.

Crystallized intelligence.

Ch. 9 The knowledge you have acquired through your academic studies would best be described in terms of _____________.

Crystallized intelligence.

Ch. 9 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.

Ch. 8 Which type of response communicates that the interviewer understands how the interviewee feels?

Empathy or understanding

Ch. 9 Administration of the modern Standford-Binet requires examiners to continue testing until the ______.

Examinee's ceiling is reached.

Ch. 10 The WPSSI-IV includes a(n)________, which has garnered considerable interest.

Working memory index.

Ch. 10 One of the most important innovations on the modern WAIS is the concept of________.

Working memory.

Ch. 9 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

Ch. 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.

Ch. 9 Jonah is a 10-year-old child. Jonah was found to have a mental age of 5 on the 1916 Standford-Binet scale. This means that their intelligent quotient (IQ) would be ______.

50

Ch. 9 The gf-gc theory of intelligence is__________.

A theory that proposes two basic types of intelligence.

Ch. 10 Jerome is taking the similarities subtest of the Wechsler test. What is the major function being measured by this subtest?

Abstract thinking.

Ch. 10 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 functioning.

Ch. 8 "You always worry too much. Everything will turn out just fine, you'll see." This is an example of a(n)________ response.

False reassurance

Ch. 10 The WISC-V has______ index scores.

Five

Ch. 9 The total product of the various separate and distinct elements of intelligence, according to Binet, is called _______.

General mental ability.

Ch. 8 Research consistently indicates unstructured interviews have _______.

Generally low levels of reliability.

Ch. 8 Which of the following is a suggestion for structuring cross-ethic, cross-cultural, and cross-class interviews?

Increase interviewers' motivation to form an accurate impression.

Ch. 10 Which of the following is a psychometric property of the WAIS-III?

Internal consistency reliabilities for the non-speeded subtests are very strong.

Ch. 8 The degree to which one person can influence another is called _______.

Interpersonal influence.

Ch. 9 Which of the following is false regarding the psychometric properties of the Standard-Binet fifth edition?

Interscorer agreement was relatively low, with average coefficients of .50 to .60.

Ch. 8 A central difference between a level-one response and a level-two response is that the latter response__________.

Is superficially related to the interviewee's statement.

Ch. 9 Why was the standardization sample of the 1916 Stanford-Binet scale considered inadequate?

It was comprised exclusively of white children from California.

Ch. 8 Which of the following is a response to avoid in an unstructured interview?

Judgmental statements.

Ch. 8 The mental status exam is used primarily in the diagnosis of ______.

Major mental disorders

Ch. 9 Binet incorporated _______ in the first two versions (1905 and 1908) of the Binet-Simon scale of intelligence.

Mental age

Ch. 9 A person's equivalent age capability is referred to as their__________.

Mental age.

Ch. 9 According to Spearman, g can be best conceptualized as ______.

Mental energy.

Ch. 10 One criticism of the Wechsler intelligence scale is that the role of ____ is evident.

Non intellective factors.

CH. 9 Some of the terms that Binet used to classify intellectual deficiency are no longer used today because ______.

Of their derogatory connotations.

Ch. 10 On the WAIS-IV, Block Design, Matrix Reasoning, and Visual Puzzles comprise the _______ index; Digit Span and Arithmetic comprises the ______ index.

Perceptual Reasoning; Working Memory

Ch. 10 Wechsler's first attempt at measuring adult intelligence was _____.

Poorly standardized.

Ch. 8 Statements such as "Why did you do that?" and "Why did you lie to your friends?" are called ______ statements and should be avoided in an interview.

Probing

Ch. 8 An interviewer can have a calming effect on the interviewee if they engage in which of the following?

Remaining relaxed.

Ch. 10 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 subject?

Similarities

Ch. 9 Who viewed intelligence in terms of general mental ability as well as specific factors?

Spearman

Ch. 8 When an interviewer reads from a printed set of questions during the interview, they are conducting which of the following?

Structured interview

Ch. 10 Several special group studies have ______ of the WISC-V.

Supported the validity.

Ch. 8 Which of the following would be an effective probing statement regarding the sleep habits of an interviewee?

Tell me more about your sleeping problems.

Ch. 10 Which of the following is true regarding the debate over a general or specific factor of intelligence?

The debate continues.

Ch. 9 _______ 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

Ch. 10 One of the main problems with the WISC-V is that______.

The factors may be unstable

Dr. Melvin conducted an interview with a new client, Marcus. During the interview, Marcus interrupted Dr. Melvin several times and seemed in a hurry to leave the office. In the next few weeks, Dr. Melvin had to work very hard to ensure that their initial impressions of Marcus would not bias their clinical judgment. This example best illustrates an attempt to counter ________.

The halo effect.

Ch. 8 The more tense and nervous interviews deliberately are, the more tense and nervous interviewees will be. This fact illustrates _____

The stress interview.

Ch. 8 Which level of empathy response represents various degrees of true empathy and may be used in all types of unstructured or semi structured interviews?

Three

Ch. 8 Which of the following is unstandardized?

Unstructured interview.

Ch. 10 The____ of the WAIS-IV is dependent on its correlation with earlier versions of the test.

Validity.

Ch. 8 Which of the following response types is interchangeable with the interviewee's statements?

Verbatim playback

Ch. 9 The concept of g refers to the ______.

View that one general mental ability factor underlies all intelligent behavior.

Ch. 10 Aleece is taking the Wechsler test and is currently answering items on the coding subtest, which measures______.

Visual-motor functioning.

Ch. 10 Which Wechsler subtest is one of the most stable measures of general verbal intelligence?

Vocabulary


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