Exam 1: The World of Testing

Neuropsychological tests are designed primarily to yield information about functioning of the ___.

Which of these specialties within psychology has been most important in the development of the field of testing?

Which is one of the crucial assumptions we make in the field of testing?

What term did Cattell coin in an 1890 article to describe the field of testing?

Which statistical technique was developed partly in connection with ongoing debates about the nature of intelligence?

Which is NOT one of the areas identified as an influence of computers on testing?

The textbook identifies several major influences on the development of testing as we know it today. Which is NOT one of those forces?

According to the textbook, the primary users of tests for purposes of personnel selection are ___.

Wundt's laboratory at Leipzig, Germany was very influential because -

Who is credited with creating the first modern theory of intelligence?

Which is NOT one of the major trends the textbook identifies for the period "And Now: 2000-Present"?

Which was NOT one of the issues in the emergence of the period of judicial and legal activism affecting testing?

The first truly national standardized achievement battery was the ___.

Who worked on converting the Binet-type test into a group administered test as part of his doctoral studies?

The technical, theoretical side of the field of testing is known as -

A power test usually will have ___.

Experimental psychology's emergence in the late 1800s influenced the development of testing primarily by emphasizing the need for -