Exam 5: Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing and Its Consequences

The approach to personality test construction that examines a set of correlations among many items in order to identify which items are highly correlated is called the ________ approach.

Which of the following statements does NOT apply to rationally constructed personality scales?

The primary criterion for item selection in the empirical method of test construction is determining whether the item ________.

Personality assessment refers to ________.

One objection to the use of vocational interest tests is that these tests ________.

Imagine that you want to develop a test to measure depression. You gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. You are using a(n) ________ method of test construction.

An important aspect of the definition of personality is its relative consistency across time and situations.

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

The two basic criteria for evaluating the validity of a personality judgment are ________.

According to the text, which projective test appears to have produced evidence that comes close to establishing its validity?

The consensus among trait researchers is that three broad traits are truly essential.

Most rationally constructed scales fail at least one or more of the criteria for valid S assessment.

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) ________.

According to the underlying theory of projective tests, the stimulus itself (e.g., an inkblot or a TAT card) directly causes responses to each stimulus.

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.

A projective tests yields ________ data.

One study reported that the correlation between one scoring system for the Rorschach inkblots and mental health was about .33.

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

If you were shown an inkblot and asked to describe what you saw, you would be taking the ________.

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