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What are 3 ways to assess ratings for adaptive behavior abilities?
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Through Observation; Vineyard and AAMR scales- used to focus on skills to see how people can live in everyday life-
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What assessment differtiates ADHD from other disorders?
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Broad-Band Assessments
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What is the profile called when looking for LD or ADHD on the WAIS or WISC?
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SCAD profile -subtest variablity
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What type of assessment: obtains detailed information on symptoms for treatment of ADHD
a. Broad-Band Assessments b. Narrow-band assessment. |
Narrow-band assessment.
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When ruling in ADHD what assessment assess behavioral inhibition
a. Stroop Color-Word Association Test b.Broad-Band Assessments c. Observation Vineyard |
Stroop Color-Word Association Test
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Children with autism demonstrate superior abilities on tests related to
A Procssing iInformation subtests B Visual Search C Freedom of Distractiability D Local Processing and Visual Search |
D Local Processing and Visual Search
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True or False: Children with Autism are usually dx'd with mental retardation as well
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True
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What disorder has severe developmental regression following two years of normal development
A. Rett's Disorder B. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder |
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
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What disorder includes decelerations in head growth, loss of previously acquired purposeful hand skills, and appearance of poorly coordinated gait. There are also associated deficits in social skills; in contrast to autism, these poor social skills are temporary?
A. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder B. Rett's Disorder |
Rett's Disorder
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True or False Rett's disorder is only seen in females?
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True
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Children with BLANK USUALLY display higher performance IQ than verbal IQ on WISC-IV, block design highest score, and comprehension lowest subtest score
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Children with Autism
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What 15-item test is used to predict outcome of traumatic brain injury
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Glasgow Coma Scale
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What are the 3 categories that grade conciousness in the Glasgow Coma Scale? ( me V)
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Grades consciousness in relation to eye-opening, motor and verbal responses
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Glasgow Coma Scale is Used to predict recovery what is the range?
5-15 1-15 3-15 |
3-15 : lower score indicate more severe trauma and poorer prognosis
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Score of BLANK indicates brain death in the Glasgow Coma Scale
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3
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Score of BLANK indicates severe neurologic disability/damage
in the Glasgow Coma Scale |
3-8
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What measures a person level of alertness and responsiveness to vocal and painful stimuli to assess consciousness.
A. Mental Status Examination B. AVPU Scale C. Bender Gestalt |
AVPU Scale
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What brief 30-point questionnaire test is used to screen for cognitive impairment?
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Mental Status Examination
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What is a brief, 5 minute, 11- item measure of cognitive mental status developed by Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh?
A. Mental Status Examination B. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) |
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
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what is the objective instrument used to identify organic brain damage and sometimes estimate intelligence. It was first developed to distinguish adults with brain damage from those without brain damage called?
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Bender Gestalt
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What assessment typically used for assessing organic brain damadge is also useful to determine school readiness for first grade and predict academic achievement or learning disabilities?
A. Observation Vineyard B. Bender Gestalt C.Raven's Progressive Matrices |
Bender Gestalt
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What asssessment is a strong determiner in nonverbal intelligence and looks at inductive reasoning via abstract geometric patterns?
A. Raven's Progressive Matrices B. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) C. Bender Gestalt |
Raven's Progressive Matrices
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What assessment is thought to be one of the best nonverbal tests of intelligence. and is most often used to assess the cognitive functioning of clients who have language barriers hearing-impaired persons, non-English speakers, those who are physically disabled, and those with aphasia?
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Raven's Progressive Matrices
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What type of method of test construction identifies a skill domain and develops items to assess the test-taker’s mastery of the domain, knowledge, skill or abilities acquired. ?
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Domain-Referenced Test
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What type of method of test construction identifies as it evaluates examinee's performance based on that of a normed group?
A. Domain-Referenced Test B. Norm-Referenced Test |
Norm-Referenced Test: different from Domain-Referenced
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Many children with autism have a comorbid disorder of:
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mental retardation.
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What are the subscales for the WAIS IV?
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Verbal Comprehension, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning, and Processing Speed
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What index on the WAIS is comprised of the three subtests: vocabulary, similarities, and information
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The Verbal Comprehension Index
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What index on the WAIS is comprised of the arithmetic digit span, and letter-number sequencing subtests and measures the ability to hold information actively in the mind?
a. The Working Memory Index (WMI) b The Verbal Comprehension Index c. The Perceptual Reasoning Index |
The Working Memory Index (WMI)
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The WAIS is commonly used with adults from the age of?
a. 16 b. 12 c. 14 |
16
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What index has vocabulary subtests that are the best single measure in intelligence and are the most stable, meaning they are last to be affected by brain damage?
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The Verbal Comprehension Index
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What index has consists of picture completion, block design, and matrix reasoning, visual puzzles. This index is a measure of fluid intelligence
a. The Processing Speed Index (PSI) b. The Perceptual Reasoning Index c. The Working Memory Index (WMI) |
The Perceptual Reasoning Index
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What index measures crystallized intelligence, or acquired knowledge and verbal reasoning?
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The Verbal Comprehension Index
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What index measures digit symbol-coding, cancellation, and symbol-search subtests. This index measures how quickly the mind works.
a. The Perceptual Reasoning Index b. The Processing Speed Index (PSI) c. The Working Memory Index (WMI) |
The Processing Speed Index (PSI)
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What intelligenct test is based ongtheory of intelligence?
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)
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What type of bias occurs where the scientists performing the research influence the results
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Experimenter Bias, also called Research Bias
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What is one way to to avoid Experimenter Bias?
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Conduct double-blind experiments b/c double-blind experiment, neither the participants nor the researchers are aware of which group receives treatment.
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What type of Bias threatens internal validity
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Experimenter Bias
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What type of Bias occurs when a person credit themselves for good things that happen, but to blame the situation, or other people, when things go badly?
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Self-Serving Bias
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What type of Bias occurs when a person searchs for information that confirms one's preconceptions?
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Confirmation Bias
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What model attempts to correlate intelligence with birth-order intervals and family size
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Confluence Model
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Children in large families are disadvantaged by being forced to share the family's resources True or False?
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According to the confluence model True
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Crystallized and fluid intelligence are highly correlated with academic success. True or False?
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True
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According to Luria's model of intelligence, does the brain use one area to control the behaviors or different areas that are linked together? Also what type of asssesment is based off this model:
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has different areas responsible for different behaviors. Kaufmann Assessment Battery for Children -apitutde test he had distinction b/w sequential and simultaneous processing. It places emphasis on mental processing nor acquired knowlege.
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The MMPI-2 K scale was developed to:
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remove variability by reducing the number of false negatives occurring
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The primary function of what battery is to assess the nature, location, and extent of brain damage
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the Halstead-Reitan Battery
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The psychological assessment most commonly used and best suited for drawing conclusions about the location and nature of brain damage is
a. Halstead-Reitan Battery b. bender-gestalt c. Glasgow Coma Scale |
Halstead-Reitan Battery
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If the MMPI-2 validity scales reveal an inverted V pattern with T-scores above 65, this may mean that the test-taker:
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was malingering.
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The MMPI-2 clinical scales that compose the neuotic triad are what?
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1, 2, and 3 are referred to as:
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What scale focus on physical ailments, designed to assess neurotic concern over bodily functioning, especially under stress
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Scale 1 Hypochondriasis (Hs):
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What scale indicates high scores that may reflect a reactive depression, a more pessimistic personality, poor morale, difficulty concentrating, or sensitivity to criticism
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Scale 2 - Depression (D): Experiencing distress, likely to be depressed.
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What scale assesses for general social maladjustment and the absence of strongly pleasant experience
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Scale 4 - Psychopathic Deviate (Pd):
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Low scorers on this scale tend to be described as conventional, conforming, and submissive; they are often socially constricted, rigid, and have narrow interests
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Scale 4 - Psychopathic Deviate (Pd):
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What scale is highly correlated with education, so interpretations based on it should take into consideration the education of the test-taker. High scorers on this scale tend to reflect artistic interests, low interest in traditionally defined male activity, insight and sensitivity, and more likely are involved in child-rearing
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Scale 5 - Masculinity-Femininity (MF):
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What scale contains items that are endorsed by less than 10 percent of the normal population
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F-scale; The scale's normal range is between T-60 and T-80.
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On the F scale a score above ______would deem the test invalid and not appropriate for interpretation for non clinical samples
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T-80
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Elevation on the F scale reflects a variety of problems, including
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severe psychopathology, malingering, problems completing the inventory, exaggerations due to fear or panic, or a cry for help
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What scale reflect a virtuous view of self or unsophisticated defensiveness when elevated?
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The L scale; This response bias is known as a "faking good" response
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What are the 2 impression management scales on the MMPI-2.
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L and K
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A patient who has insight into his or her problems and is sharing it with the administrator will likely have a high ___ score and low __ and __ scores.
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F score; and low L and K
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What scale measures dishonesty to "fake good," lack of insight, or denial.
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L scale-Lie:
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What scale Responding "false" to most items; corrects for false negatives.
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K correction
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What scale High scores may indicate severe psychological distress, severe psychological disorientation, a plea for help, or malingering
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F scale
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What scale has High scorers that are seen as socially introverted, shy, withdrawn, insecure, pessimistic, self-deprecating, and anxious in their interactions with others. Low scorers are described as extroverted,
a. Scale 0 - Social Introversion-Extroversion (Si): b.Scale 7 - Psychasthenia (Pt) c. Scale 9 - Hypomania (Ma) |
Scale 0 - Social Introversion-Extroversion (Si):
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What scale has Low scorers that are often considered dependable, reliable, mature and contentious; extremely low scorers are often described as apathetic, having little energy, listless, and often significantly depressed (evaluate for suicidality)
a. Scale 0 - Social Introversion-Extroversion (Si): b.Scale 7 - Psychasthenia (Pt) c. Scale 9 - Hypomania (Ma) |
Scale 9 - Hypomania (Ma)
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Scale 8 - Schizophrenia (Sc)Heightened scores in the extreme range indicate that the client is under acute situational distress but is usually not schizophrenic; the client may have a brief psychotic episode. True or False
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True
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On the MMPI-2 Malingering often presents itself with an
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inverted V pattern; where the L and K scores are around 50 and the F scale is slightly elevated.
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What assessment was constructed by S.R. Hathaway and J.C. McKinley and first published in 1943
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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is one of the most widely used paper-and-pencil tests of personality in the United States
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What vailidity scales are used to assess for false positives, in which individuals screen for having a problem when in fact they do not.
a. TRIN and VRIN scales b. L and K scales c. TRIN scales |
TRIN and VRIN scales
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Designed to assess for worrying obsessive-compulsive behavior, abnormal fears, self-criticism, difficulties in concentrating, guilt feelings, and trait anxiety. This scale is an excellent measure of anxiety as well as ruminative self-doubt; High scorers are usually described as anxious?
a. Scale 0 - Social Introversion-Extroversion (Si): b.Scale 7 - Psychasthenia (Pt) c. Scale 9 - Hypomania (Ma) |
Scale 7 - Psychasthenia (Pt)
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According to the MMPI-2, a person with an elevated score on Scale 9 would exhibit which of the following characteristics?
a. socially introverted, shy b. Overactivity or impulsiveness c. worrying obsessive-compulsive behavior |
Overactivity or impulsiveness
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The Big Five Personality Inventory is based on which of the following approaches?
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Lexical
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What test was designed to assess visual-motor integration in children as young as 2; adolescents and can identify neurocognitive impairments in elderly?
a. SIBTEST b. Kaufman assessment battery for children c.The Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration |
B. The Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration
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The Bouchard and Gue (1981) correlation of IQ scores between an adoptive parent and child is:
A. .18 B. .39 C. .58 |
Answer is A.18 adoptive parent and child
.39 is correlation for bio parent and child living together .58 identical twins living together |
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True or False the Bender Gestalt is used in the diagnosis of mental health disorder?
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False
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The IQ scores of adopted children and their adoptive parents are:
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not as similar as the IQ scores of adopted children and their biological parents.
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Family Educational Right to Privacy Act is AKA?
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The Buckley Amendment (1974) AND refers to privacy of student school records
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Dynamic assessment uses which strategy to help the examinee produce the correct response?
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Testing of limits
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What type of assessment, used with children with learning disabilities, is based on Vygotsky's theory?
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Dynamic assessment
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Fluid intelligence can be measured by which of the following tasks?
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Matrices and figural analysis
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Fluid and crystallized intelligence are aspects of whose theory of intelligence?
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Horn and Cattell
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The Sickness Impact Profile is an example of which approach in measuring quality of life?
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Decision theory
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It is often hard for an adult subject to correctly name the color of the ink used in a printed word, if the ink color is different from the color the word indicates (for example, the word red is written in blue color). Which effect explains this phenomenon?
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The Stroop Effect
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The main debate in the Larry P. v. Riles case involved:
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the meaning of IQ scores; it was important bc it Provided guidelines on avoiding racist and stereotypical judgments in the testing environment
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The ratio IQ was originally used to convert what type of scores?
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Mental Age Scores
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The ratio IQ was replaced by the:
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deviation IQ
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The scale that measures patients' level of responsiveness to painful stimuli is called:
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AVPU
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The Mini-Mental State Examination assesses all of the following except
A. cognitive functions B. praxis. C. language D. attention E. affect |
e. affect
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The test that produces the best prediction of future intelligence and cognition for infants is:
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the Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence.
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If a client cannot be assessed using Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices, which test is usually administered?
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The Colored Progressive Matrices
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The Mini-Mental State Examination is most commonly used to assess:
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Dementia
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A higher verbal IQ score than performance IQ score on the WISC is suggestive of which diagnosis?
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OCD
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Which of the WISC subtests measures one's social judgment skills?
A. Digit Span B. LETER SEQUENCING C. COMPREHENSION |
COMPREHENSION
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The modified WAIS Neuropsychological Instrument was developed for what reason?
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To better diagnose organic brain damage
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The Freedom from Distractibility Index is useful to aid in identifying which childhood disorder?
A. ADHD B. AUTISM C. RETT'S DO |
A. ADHD
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The WISC-III Freedom from Distractibility Index is important because it measures:
a. ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION b. COMPREHENSION C. OCD |
A. ATTENTION AND CONCENTRATION
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Most people with OCD have higher verbal IQ than performance IQ scores because:
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they use an elaborate approach on their answers
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What index assess one's ability to exert mental control.
A. The Freedom from Distractability B. WMI C. VCI |
a. The Freedom from Distractability
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Malingering is confirmed if a client produces what type of score on the Test of Memory Malingering?
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A worse than chance score on this forced-choice test
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The purpose of the second stage in administering the Stanford-Binet is to:
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establish a basal level and a ceiling level for each test.
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While verbal IQ draws on accumulated experience, performance IQ draws on:
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the ability to problem-solve.
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What is the main difference between the WAIS-III and WAIS-IV?
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Verbal and performance IQ are no longer reported
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The WISC-IV is most appropriately used with:
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children in kindergarten.
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Which intelligence theory is the Stanford-Binet based on?
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The Cattell-Horn-Carroll model
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The school psychologist's primary role in the school system is to:
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consult, evaluate, and make recommendations.
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The WAIS-IV test is commonly used with:
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Adults
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Likert-scale variables allow for the use of all of the following mathematical operations ie. addition and subtraction.
, except: |
division; scales are most often used in surveys
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What is the impact of experimenter bias on a study?
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The study exhibits low internal validity.
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Power tests typically use what method to test reliability?
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The Kuder-Richardson formula (Cronbach's α)
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Speed tests cannot use __________ reliability methods but can use __________ reliability methods
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internal consistency; test-retest
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Speed tests should not be used with which population?
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the elderly
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Unfair bias in testing is sometimes called:
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differential item functioning.
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The Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration was primarily designed for what age group?
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Children ages 2 to 18
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The Bouchard and Gue (1981) correlation of IQ scores between a biological parent and child living together is:
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0.39.
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The measurement of adaptive behavior assists in
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diagnosis.
treatment planning determining special assistance needs |
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In the Rorschach, which of the following scores captures the responder's ability to put things together?
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Developmental quality
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The Hiskey-Nebraska test assesses cognitive abilities with 12 nonverbal subtests administered to children between the ages of:
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3 and 16.
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The Fagan Test of Infant Intelligence presents infants with what type of stimulus?
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Pictures of faces
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__________ are criterion-referenced tests.
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Domain-referenced tests
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Frredom of distractiabilty consists of what 2 subtests?
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Arithmitecand digit span
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Bouchard and Gue reveealed that the highest correlation between intelligence and gentics was who?
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Identical twins reared together .85; reared apart was .67 (second highest)
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Bouchard and Gue reveealed that the lowest correlation between intelligence and gentics was who?
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Adopitve parent and child .18
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The fagan test of intelligence is adminstered to infants bw what ages?
a. 3 to 12 months b. 6-18 months c. 1- 12 months |
3 to 12 months
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What do the Bayley Scales assess?
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Infant development ages 1-42 months.
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When using the Denver Developmental Scale Test II to assess children directly through observation a score of ____ may indicate developmental delays
a. Score of 90 b. Score of 60 c. Score of 70 |
Score of 90
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Whos theory stated that there were 7 primary mental abilities derived via Factor Analysis?
a. Louis Thurstones theory; b. J.P Guilford's structure of intellect |
a. Louis Thurstones theory;
J.P Guilford's structure of intellect created a matrix from 120 elemets via factor analaysis |
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What socring appraoch is used when the actual scores on a test are compared to the test-takers scores and not a reference group?
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Ipsative Scoring
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A IQ test is a type of ___ test? Whereas a ___ test is used to test agility and motor control?
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Power versus Speed
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What type of test assesses patients with frontal lobe damage and the inability to inhibit resposnes and also people with possibly ADHD?
a. Hiskey Nebraska b.Stroop Test c. Halstead Retain |
b. Stroop Test
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The Big Five Personality Inventory was developed by
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Allport; a model of normal personality
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Lower socres on the processesing speed may be indicative of?
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TBI
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Which of the following would be most useful for criterion-referenced tests?
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Percentage Scores
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Which one of the following is an example of computerized adaptive testing?
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GRE Exam
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What are the two ways to use the Cleary Rule to find biases by looking at regression-line differences between two groups?
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Slope differences and intercept differences
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According to the MMPI-2, a person with an elevated score on Scale 3 would exhibit which of the following characteristics?
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Physical ailment under stress
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According to the MMPI-2, a person with an elevated scale 6 score would exhibit which of the following characteristics?
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Suspicious, hostile behavior
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Which one of these involves the researcher recording the amount of time a certain behavior occurs within a specified time period? For example, if a clinician was attempting to assess a child for attention span, which type of behavioral recording would be most helpful?
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Duration recording
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A researcher is interested in studying how children resolve conflict in inappropriate ways. How would a researcher best assess for the presence of a specific, inappropriate conflict resolution behavior using behavioral recording?
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Partial interval recording
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According to the Cleary Rule, when comparing groups, a test is unbiased if one group's errors of prediction sum to:
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zero
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The Cleary Rule states that a test is fair if both the focal and the reference group have the same:
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intercept and slope.
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What test assesses visual memory, spatial perception, and visual motor skills in order to diagnose brain damage the subject has to reproduce from memory the geometric patterns on a series of 10 cards?
a. Beery-VMI b. Wisconsisn Card Sorting test c. Stroop Color -Word Association test d. Mini Mental State Exam e. Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) |
e. Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT)
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What test assesses visual motor skills in children and involoves the reproduction of geometric shapes?
a. Beery-VMI b. Wisconsisn Card Sorting test c. Stroop Color -Word Association test d. Mini Mental State Exam e. Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) |
a. Beery-VMI
beery Devlopmental test of Visual Motor Integration |
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What screening test assesses the ability to form abstract concepts and shift congnitive strategies. The subject is required to sort a group of cards in an order that is not disclosed to her.
a. Beery-VMI b. Wisconsisn Card Sorting test c. Stroop Color -Word Association test d. Mini Mental State Exam e. Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) |
b. Wisconsisn Card Sorting test
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What test is a measure of conginitve flexibilty and tests a person ability to supress a habitual reaction to a stimulus?
a. Beery-VMI b. Wisconsisn Card Sorting test c. Stroop Color -Word Association test d. Mini Mental State Exam e. Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) |
c. Stroop Color -Word Association test
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What test measures the congintive functioning of older adults specifcally their orientation, registration, attention, calculation, recall, language and visual construction?
a. Beery-VMI b. Wisconsisn Card Sorting test c. Stroop Color -Word Association test d. Mini Mental State Exam e. Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) |
d. Mini Mental State Exam
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Culture fair tests have been implemented to minmize the advantages of white middle class examinees; at present there is no research to suggest that culture fair tests are any better at predicting academic achievement or job performance. True or False
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True
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Using a series of mutiple choice questions or other unambiguous stimuli to measure behaviors, social and personal traits is an example of a:
a. structured test b. projective test |
a. structured test
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What type of strucutred test administers a large number of items to a large group of examinees and then analyze their answers for any correlations?
a. logical content test b. theoretical test c. empirical criterion d. factor analysis tests |
d. factor analysis tests
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True or False. Leiter International Performace Scale (Lieter-r) is a cullture fair test that assesses cognitive abilites b/w 2 and 21; and requires verbal instructions.
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False' it does not requires verbal instructions that is what makes it sensitive to differing languages and hearing impaired. Another non-verbal test that measures general intelligence is Raven's Prgressive Matrices.
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What intelligence theory is considered to be the most empiraclaly validated and understands that intelligence can be understood at three levels including general (stratum III); 10 broad cognitive abilites (stratum II); and 70 narrow cognitive abilites (stratum I)?
A. Carroll's theory of cognitive abilites B. Gardner intelligence theory C. Thorndike theory of intelligence D. Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory |
D. Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory - includes carroll contribution that cognitive abilites fall into narrow, broad and general; and include cattel and horn theory of c, f, intelligence
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Intelligence is the product of many intellectual abilites which form clusters such as social -dealing with people; concrete- dealing with things and abstract intelligence dealing with verbal and mathematical symbols. Who's theory of intelligence is this?
a. Galton -inherited trait theory b. Thorndike multifactor theory c. Phillip Vernon hierarchal theory of intelligence d. Sternbergs triarchic theory |
b. Thorndike multifactor theory
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Who's intelligence theory is based on the thinking processes used in problem solving and specifically discusses 3 areas: analytic abilites, creative abilites, and practical abilites?
a. Galton -inherited trait theory b. Thorndike multifactor theory c. Phillip Vernon hierarchal theory of intelligence d. Sternbergs triarchic theory |
d. Sternbergs triarchic theory
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True or False; according to Spearman theory of intelligence general intellectual factor g can be explained by crystalized intelligence gc and fluid inteliigence )Gf).
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True
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Who proposed 8 distinct intelligences indicating people's relative stregths and weaknesses?
a. Galton -inherited trait theory b. Gardner c. Phillip Vernon hierarchal theory of intelligence d. Sternbergs triarchic theory |
b. Gardner
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Who proposed that intelligence centered on the ability to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with new environments?
a. Galton -inherited trait theory b. Gardner c. Phillip Vernon hierarchal theory of intelligence d. Weschler |
d. Weschler
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When scores on a test are compared with the test takers score and not a reference group the score is said to be:
a. percentile score b. percetage score c. ipsative score |
c. ipsative score- intra-individual comparison.
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What is the cutoff T score's for the F scale for inpatients; outpatients and non-clinical settings?
a. 100; 90;80 b. 110,100,90 c, 90; 80; 70 |
a. 100; 90;80
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What scale is referred to as the defensiveness indicator?
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K
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What scale is thought as the faking good scale?
a. L scale b. F scale c. K scale |
a. L -lie scale
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What part of the inkblot description informs the examiner how well a person's answers integrates different aspects of the image?
a. form quality b. developmental quality |
b. developmental quality
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If a person scores above ___ on the MMPI 2 it is considered to be clinically significant.
A. 75 B. 65 C. 55 |
B. 65
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What type of tests measure current status and predict future academic achievement?
a. ability tests b. personality tests c. intelligence tests |
a. ability tests
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What ability test measures verbal and mathemtical resoning skills; and it is used to predict the college of sucess of high school students. And studies show that the SAT is more effective as a predictor when it is combined with grade point average?
a. scholastic achievement tests b. performance-based assessment c. curriculum based measurement |
a. scholastic achievement tests
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What type of personality test uses ambiguous stimuli to elicit meaningful responses particularly about underlying conflicts; they are typically open-ended and therefore less susceptible for faking?
a. projective-unstructured b. structured |
a. projective-unstructured
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According to the Halstead Reitan a score above ___indicates brain pathology
a. .50 b. 90 c. .60 d. .20 |
c. .60
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What neuropsychological battery assess areas like rythm, visual, function, and writing within 11 subtests and indicates that a person is either has normal brain function (0) or brain damage (2)?
a. Luria- NEBRASKA b. Halstead -Retain Neuropsychological Battery c. Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test |
a. Luria- NEBRASKA
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What group intelligence test that consists of a test of acievement; the latter of which measures oral language and academic achievement is?
a. Woodcock Johnson III b. Wonderlick personell test c. Kulman-Anderson Test |
a. Woodcock Johnson III
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What group intelligence test that takes about 12 minutes to fill out with paper and pencil and purports to measure the mental ability of adults -especially performace in certain jobs.
a. Woodcock Johnson III b. Wonderlick personell test c. Kulman-Anderson Test |
b. Wonderlick personell test
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What group intelligence test is for children in the ages of k-12; it measures verbal and quantatative intelligence and its uniqueness is that it relies less on language than do other individual and group tests?
a. Woodcock Johnson III b. Wonderlick personell test c. Kulman-Anderson Test |
c. Kulman-Anderson Test
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What test attempts to gauge a person's level of the Big Five peronality traits which then are broken down into facets as for instant neurotiscim contains anxitey and depression?
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NEO-personality Inventory
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What physical disbalities assessment is best for assessing children with hearing impariments?
a. Hiskey Nebraska Test of Learning Apitutude b. Peabody picture vocabulary test c. Haptic Intelligence test d. Comlumbia Mental Maturity Scale |
a. Hiskey Nebraska Test of Learning Apitutude- 12 substest adminsterd verbally or pantomime
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What physical disbalities assessment uses tactile stimuli and is used for assessing the blind and partially sighted persons?
a. Hiskey Nebraska Test of Learning Apitutude b. Peabody picture vocabulary test c. Haptic Intelligence test d. Comlumbia Mental Maturity Scale |
c. Haptic Intelligence test
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What physical disbality test measures receptive vocabulary without requiring verbal prompts?
a. Hiskey Nebraska Test of Learning Apitutude b. Peabody picture vocabulary test c. Haptic Intelligence test d. Comlumbia Mental Maturity Scale |
b. Peabody picture vocabulary test
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What type of learning is most succesful when it is accompanied by guided partcipation. This type of learning promotes or inhibts a behavior.
a. observational b. instrumental c. classical |
a. observational
learning - the succes for partcipatory training is due to the person that is learning expereinces self confidence |