Deck 15: Interests and Attitudes

Question 1

Historically, the dominant names in the field of vocational interest testing have been ___.

A) Strong and Cronbach
B) Kuder and Strong
C) Holland and Cronbach
D) Kuder and Likert

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of these individuals pioneered the use of criterion-keying for vocational interest testing?

A) Kuder
B) Holland
C) Cronbach
D) Strong

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Kuder's early work on vocational interest testing concentrated on defining interests in terms of ___.

A) broad interest areas
B) differentiation of occupational groups
C) content validation
D) scorer reliability

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Strong's early work on the development of career interest measures used the same methodology as that used by the

A) NEO PI
B) Wechsler scales
C) Rorschach
D) MMPI

Question 5

Which is NOT one of the widely used career interest inventories?

A) SII
B) KCIA
C) SDS
D) JVIS

Question 6

Who is the author of the RIASEC hexagon?

A) Strong
B) Kuder
C) Campbell
D) Holland

Question 7

In the RIASEC hexagon, the "R" stands for _____.

A) Realistic
B) Reliability
C) Rating
D) Relative

Question 8

In the RIASEC hexagon, the "A" stands for _____.

A) Athletic
B) Autonomic
C) Anti-social
D) Artistic

Question 9

In the RIASEC hexagon, the distance between vertexes is supposed to indicate the relative degree of

A) correlation between areas
B) reliability of scores
C) validity of scores
D) importance for personal decisions

Question 10

Most of the items in the Strong Interest Inventory call for responses of ___.

A) True, False
B) Strongly Like --- Strongly Dislike
C) First choice --- Last choice
D) Yes, No

Question 11

The General Occupational Theme (GOT) scores on the Strong are based on ____.

A) The RIASEC hexagon
B) Primary Mental Abilities
C) MMPI codes
D) The Dictionary of Occupational Titles

Question 12

Which type of score on the Strong is based on criterion-keying?

A) General Occupational Themes
B) Basic Interest Scales
C) Occupational Scales
D) Personal Style Scales

Question 13

On the Strong, the counts of Total Responses and Infrequent Responses are part of what category of scores?

A) Basic Interest Scales
B) Occupational Scales
C) Personal Style Indexes
D) Administrative Indexes

Question 14

The Administrative Indexes on the Strong are examples of ___.

A) factor analysis scores
B) multiple correlation scores
C) reliability indexes
D) validity indexes

Question 15

What type of normed score does the Strong Interest Inventory use?

A) standard score with M = 50, SD = 10
B) standard score with M = 100, SD = 15
C) stanine
D) grade equivalent

Question 16

You are presented with three activities. You must indicate which one you prefer the most and which one you prefer the least. This is the type of item used on the ___.

A) SII
B) SDS
C) KCIA
D) Likert

Question 17

The Kuder Career Interests Assessment uses an unusual, innovative method of reporting. What is it?

A) Ranking major areas of interest
B) Percentiles for areas of interest
C) Matching with persons in the workforce
D) Narrative descriptions of areas NOT of interest

Question 18

The "person match" descriptions provided by the Kuder Career Interests Assessment report are presented as ___.

A) standard scores
B) theta scores
C) electronic photos
D) mini-interviews

Question 19

All of the major career interest inventories show relationships to a project of the U.S. Department of Labor that provides lists of occupations. The project is known as ___.

A) JobSearch
B) USJOBS
C) O*NET
D) RIASEC

Question 20

Which of these measures advertises itself as "self-administered, self-scored, and self-interpreted?

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Career Interests Assessments
C) Self-Directed Search
D) Study of Values

Question 21

Which of these measures is based entirely on the RIASEC hexagon?

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Career Interests Assessments
C) Self-Directed Search
D) Study of Values

Question 22

Which of these measures most explicitly attempts to match a person's interests with characteristics of work environments?

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Career Interests Assessments
C) Study of Values
D) Self-Directed Search

Question 23

Which of these measures depends mostly on criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced interpretation of scores?

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Career Interests Assessments
C) Study of Values
D) Self-Directed Search

Question 24

Which test manual addresses the issue of "effects and outcomes," that is, whether the use of the test makes any difference in people's lives?

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Career Interests Assessments
C) Self-Directed Search
D) Study of Values

Question 25

A section of the SDS manual addresses the matter of "effects and outcomes," that is, whether use of the test makes any difference in people's lives. This topic falls under what type of validity?

A) content
B) concurrent
C) predictive
D) consequential

Question 26

What generalization was developed about the stability of career interests from late adolescence onward? Career interests are ___.

A) perfectly stable
B) quite stable
C) quite unstable
D) vary wildly

Question 27

What generalization was developed regarding the use of modern psychometric techniques, such as item response theory, in the construction of the career interest measures covered in the text?

A) There is extensive use of these modern techniques.
B) There is a moderate degree of use of these techniques.
C) There is little use of these techniques.
D) Some tests use these techniques extensively, others not at all.

Question 28

What generalization was developed regarding online completion of career interest inventories? Online completion is ___.

A) increasing
B) decreasing
C) required
D) not currently available

Question 29

What generalization did the text offer about the degree of validity of the major career interest inventories? Their validity, as defined by ultimate career choice,

A) is very high
B) is respectable
C) is quite low
D) has not been studied very much

Question 30

The major career interest inventories often provide indicators of ability in various areas either as part of the inventory or through a companion instrument. These indicators usually rely on ___.

A) relatively long and reliable direct measures of abilities
B) short but reasonably reliable direct measures of ability
C) teacher estimates of students' abilities
D) self-estimates of abilities

Question 31

Which is NOT one of the components usually identified in defining an attitude?

A) physical
B) cognitive
C) emotional
D) behavioral

Question 32

Which is an alternative name for the "method of summated ratings" for measuring attitudes?

A) Thurstone method
B) Guttman method
C) Allport method
D) Likert method

Question 33

Which method of measuring attitudes typically uses response categories ranging from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree?

A) Thurstone method
B) Guttman method
C) Likert method
D) Allport method

Question 34

Which method of measuring attitudes does the text identify as the most widely used method?

A) Thurstone method
B) Likert method
C) Guttman method
D) Allport method

Question 35

Which is an alternative name for the Thurstone method of measuring attitudes? The method of __________.

A) summated ratings
B) equal appearing intervals
C) scalogram analysis
D) point scaling

Question 36

Which is an alternative name for the Guttman method of measuring attitudes? The method of ___.

A) summated ratings
B) equal appearing intervals
C) scalogram analysis
D) point scaling

Question 37

In which of the methods of measuring attitudes does a panel of judges sort the items in terms of how favorably they express an attitude?

A) Likert
B) Thurstone
C) Guttman
D) Allport

Question 38

In the manual for an attitude scale, Item 14 is listed as having a scale value of 5.7 and Item 15 has a scale value of 7.4. It sounds as if this attitude scale has been developed with what method?

A) Likert
B) Thurstone
C) Guttman
D) Allport

Question 39

The text identified one of the methods of measuring attitudes as being used infrequently because its technical requirements are too stringent. Which method was that?

A) Likert
B) Guttman
C) Thurstone
D) Allport

Question 40

In which of the methods of measuring attitudes do you attempt to locate the exact point where the person's attitude changes from one direction to another?

A) Likert
B) Thurstone
C) Guttman
D) Allport

Question 41

One of the drawbacks of the Thurstone method of measuring attitudes, in comparison with oter methods, is the time required to ____.

A) Get judges ratings of items
B) Write simple items
C) Perform factor analysis of the items
D) Secure examinee responses

Question 42

Attitude measures differ from public opinion polls primarily in terms of ___.

A) the types of questions asked
B) the topics to be covered
C) the target for drawing an inference
D) the types of response formats used

Question 43

In attitude measurement we are trying to draw an inference about ___, whereas in public opinion polls we are trying to try an inference about ___.

A) an individual, a group
B) a group, an individual
C) a product, a process
D) a process, a product

Question 44

Based on the results of a career interest inventory, a counselor says to a client: "Your interests are quite similar to those of elementary school teachers. You might want to consider that field." This line of reasoning suggests that what method has been used in developing the career interest inventory?

A) content validation
B) factor analysis
C) criterion-keying
D) item response theory

Question 45

O*NET, a project of the U.S. Department of Labor and cross-referenced to results from career interest inventories, gives information about _____.

A) gender differences in job interests
B) education levels required for jobs
C) locations of the largest employers in each field
D) prestige levels of various occupations