Exam 1: Psychological Testing and Assessment

In everyday practice,responsibility for appropriate test administration,scoring,and interpretation lies with:

As used in your text,test can refer to:

A student taking a course entitled "Ancient History" is administered a history test.Years later,data from this test is reviewed by assessment professionals who are preparing a case study on the testtaker.In their report,the "Ancient History" test is referred to as

A committee makes a decision that is not as sound as the decision that would have been made had the head of that committee acted alone.How would you characterize this phenomenon?

Which of the following is TRUE of behavioral observation as a tool of assessment?

As used in the vocabulary of assessment professionals,protocol typically refers to

Two tests purporting to measure personality may

Testing is to assessment as _____________ is to ________________.

Which of the following would serve as the BEST source of information about trends in psychological testing and assessment?

Role play may be preferable to naturalistic observation as a tool of measurement in situations in which

According to the American Psychological Association (APA),about how many tests are developed each year?

Which is an example of biofeedback instrumentation that can be used as a tool of psychological assessment?

An individual being evaluated for employment as a police officer is asked to put himself in the place of an arresting officer who has just been threatened by a suspect.This sort of evaluation is BEST described as

A psychologist is preparing a journal article which reviews the high school progress of a student first referred for evaluation in middle school.This article could BEST be characterized as a

As used with reference to psychological tests,format refers to

A review of a new personality test is published in a journal.In that review,it would be reasonable to expect to find information about:

If there is common ground among of all of the varied approaches to psychological testing and assessment,that common ground MOST has to do with the assessor's

A psychologist employed as an assessor in a large corporation has been charged with the task of identifying employees who have "executive potential." What publications would you recommend to this psychologist for assistance in researching how to conduct such an assessment?

In the Chapter 1 Meet an Assessment Professional,Dr.Stephen Finn characterized psychological tests as "empathy magnifiers." By this he meant that

As a tool of assessment,the interview has been characterized as "a reciprocal affair." What this means is that