Deck 1: Introducing Personality Assessment, Smith & Archer

Question 1

Although anecdotally promising, there is little research to support the use of therapeutic assessment.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

In assessment, all forms of validity can be said to be forms of:

A) Construct validity
B) Face validity
C) Translation validity
D) Diagnostic validity

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Explain why positive and negative predictive power are often better measures of diagnostic efficiency than sensitive and specificity.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

You are interested in creating a new measure of introversion for graduate students in psychology. Describe the process of creating the measure and establishing initial reliability and validity.

Question 5

On a measure of depression, a measure that reads "Are you depressed" might be said to have:

A) Poor content validity
B) Poor criterion-related validity
C) High concurrent validity
D) High face validity

Question 6

Temporal consistency is measured through:

A) Chronbach's alpha
B) Split-half reliability
C) Test-retest reliability
D) Interrater reliability

Question 7

The MMPI was the first psychological test.

Question 8

Francis Gall is most commonly associated with what movement in the history of measurement?

A) Phrenology
B) Neuropsychology
C) Apperception
D) Psychoanalysis

Question 9

Who is credited with creating the first modern personality test?

A) Starke Hathaway
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Heramann Rorschach
D) Carl Jung

Question 10

What historical event spurred the creation of the Personal Data Sheet?

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) Affordable Healthcare Act
D) Deinstitutionalization

Question 11

What method did Hathaway and McKinley use to develop the MMPI items?

A) Utility validity method
B) Criterion keying
C) Item response theory
D) Factor analysis

Question 12

Approximately what percentage of psychologists practice some personality assessment?

A) 0.19
B) 0.93
C) 0.01
D) 0.43