1. Review and Practice Questions

2. Test Construction
Standardization, Validity, Reliability

3. All of the following are reasons for requiring clearly specified procedures for the administration and scoring of assessment measures, such as standardized tests, EXCEPT to
Allow comparisons among scores of various test takers
Reduce the possible effects of extraneous variables on scores
Increase the reliability and validity of the test scores
Decrease the amount of time needed to administer the test
Increase the objectivity of the scoring procedures used

4. A test is administered to 1,000 fourth graders across the country, and then is re-administered to the same children 90 days later. The test-retest results will yield an evaluation of the test’s
Validity
Reliability
Cross-cultural fairness
Factor analysis
Goodness of fit

5. Intelligence Concepts
History, knowledge bases, theories

6. Alfred Binet’s efforts to measure intelligence were directed at
Testing the worth of various theoretical definitions
Operationally defining one theory of intelligence
Predicting children’s success in school
Selecting worker for successful job performance
Establishing the learning potential of French military recruits

7. On individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Weschler scales, an IQ of 100 indicates that the test taker
Correctly answered all of the items on the test
Obtained the highest scores in the standardization sample
Scored at the average level for test takers of the same age
Scored above the level of the average American adult
Took as long as the average test taker to answer the test items

8. Psychoanalysis
Defense mechanisms, Freudian personality model, projection tests

9. Which of the following Freudian constructs is believed to protest the organism from anxiety by making memories inaccessible
Ego ideal
Pleasure principle
Primary-process thinking
Repression
Superego

10. Humanistic Psychology
Unconditional positive regard, human growth, self

11. In the treatment of patients, which of the following psychologists made no attempt to offer formal diagnosis, advice, or interpretation of patient’s unconscious motives?
Carl Rogers
Matina Horner
Karen Horney
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung

12. Trait Psychology
Inventories and theories

13. John is generally pleasant, but during final exams he experiences more intense stress than other student’s experience. He is irritable and easily frustrated. According to the Big Five model of personality, John would be
High in introversion
High in neuroticism
High in conscientiousness
Low in agreeableness
Low in openness to experiences