Exam 3: Assessment, Effect Size, and Ethics

Dr.Akita is designing a test to measure sociability.She writes items that seem directly and obviously related to sociability,such as "I like to go to parties" and "I enjoy the company of other people." Dr)Akita is using the ________ method of test construction.

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five?

How would a personality psychologist use the rational method of test construction to create a measure of depression? What are the limitations of this technique?

The sole basis on which items are selected for empirically derived personality scales is whether ________.

Match the most relevant method with each basis of an objective test. -A psychological theory

Match the most applicable type of test with each description. -Clients tell stories about drawings of people.

The MMPI was designed to ________.

Imagine that you could draw a line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between X and Y that slopes upward from left to right.Which of the following is a possible value for the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?

As described in the text,according to some motivation researchers,the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)measures ________,whereas questionnaire-based measures predict ________.

When evaluated as psychometric instruments,most projective tests ________.

Currently,the consensus among most personality researchers is that there are ________ fundamental personality traits.

Eliminating the use of personality tests in employment screening will ________.

Inventories derived from the empirical method sometimes have items that seem strange or even objectionable to test takers ________.

Which of the following is NOT a typical argument used to justify deception in psychological research?

Although Funder draws a distinction between S and B data,the distinction between ________ tests is also discussed in the text.

An IQ test yields what kind of data?

If you were to fully develop a personality test without even looking at the item content,you would be using the ________ method of test construction.

If a test consists of a list of True/False questions and is graded using a computer-scored answer sheet,then it is a(n)________.

Assume that you are studying 200 participants,all of whom are sick.An experimental drug is given to 100 of them; the other 100 are given nothing.If the correlation between taking the drug and living is .26,then ________ percent of those who got the drug would still be alive at the end of the study.

Match the most relevant method with each basis of an objective test. -Known groups (schizophrenic vs.not),plus responses to a large number of questions