PSE3 lecture November 15

what part of the definition of a psychological test is false

• a test is a scientific procedure

• records empirically definable characteristics

• most accurate possible statements about quantitative or qualitative category of individual characteristic expressions

• all of these are parts of the definition

Answer explanation

A psychological test is a scientific procedure for recording expressions of empirically definable (psychological) characteristics with the aim of obtaining the most accurate possible statements about the (relative) quantitative degree or qualitative category of individual characteristic expressions

which one does not belong

• power/level tests

• speed/velocity tests

• dissimulation

• simulation

Answer explanation

Performance tests

• Capture different facets of cognitive performance

• Answers can be correct or incorrect

• Require maximum peroramce behaviour

  • Can only be falsified downward (dissimulation, faking bad)

• Two types of performance tests

  • Speed or velocity tests: diffferentiate by limiting processing time

  • Power or level tests: differentiation through different task difficulties

  • Mixed forms also possible 

what kind of procedure is the Rorsarch ink blot test

Answer explanation

Other tests

• Objective personality tests

  • Answers cannot be subjectively falsified

  • Subjects do not know what the test measures (lacks face validity)

  • i.e. Implicit association test

• Projective procedures

  • Serve to capture overall personality

  • Ambiguous visual material into which the test subjects project their unconscious contents of their consciousness

  • They usually do not meet the required quality standards

  • i.e. Rorsarch ink blot test

• Apparatus tests and outpatient assessment

  • Use of electronic devices

  • Recording of phsyiological and physical variables

  • Mobile sensing: collection of data using sensors in mobile devices

who was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence

• Sir Francis Galton

• Charles Darwin

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

Answer explanation

Sir francis galton (1822-1911)

• British statistician, sociologist, psychologist, meteorologist, eugenicist, psychometrician,  behavioural genetics

• Cousin of charles darwin

• The first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence

• Primal father of psychological tests

• Creator of statistical concept of correlation and regression toward the mean

Unstructured interviews came before intelligence testing

• true

• false

Answer explanation

correct order is

1905 intelligence testing

1950s unstructured interview

1960s-70s behvioural assessment

1976 neuropsychological assessment

1980s structured interviews

Define diagnostics

• the assessment of individuals with sickness

•  to describe, predict, explain, diagnose, and make decision about somebod

•  rather oriented towards identifying disorders and making decisions about necesssary therapeutic interventions

• can not really be defined

Answer explanation

 

Assessment and diagnostics

• Assessment

  • Fucntions: to describe, predict, explain, diagnose, and make decision about somebody

  • Process: involves the integration of empirical information from various sources

• Diagnostics

  • Function: rather oriented towards identifying disorders and making decisions about necesssary therapeutic interventions

  • The diagnositc process requires assessment procedures

what is the correct order for test construction

• 1. 1. reviewing the literature 2. creating the test 3. write the manual 4. congratulate yourself 5. Re-evaluate

• 1. 1. review literature 2. define construct 3. test planning 4. designing the test 5. item tryout 6. item analysis 7. building a scale 8. standardizing the test

• 1. 1. review literature 2. define construct 3. test planning 4. designing the test 5. item tryout 6. item analysis 7. standardizing the test

• 1. 1. review literature 2. define construct 3. test planning 4. designing the test 5. item analysis 6. item tryout 7. building a scale 8. standardizing the test

Answer explanation

 

Test contructions

1. Review of literature

2. Defining the construct

3. Test planning

4. Designing the test

   1. Instructions

   2. Item dveloment

      1. Question versus statement

      2. Response options

   3. Layout

   4. Manual

5. Item tryout

6. Item analysis

7. Building a scale

8. Standardizing the test

what is not one of the five axioms

• r(E)=0

• r(EA,TB)=0

• X=T+E

• E(X)=T

Answer explanation

check the slides for classical test theory

what are the general criteria for the development of G.A.P.? the guidelines should...

• be designed for certified psychologists

• be applicable in a variety of contexts

• address all classical assessment objectives

• be able to easily organize and report results

• all of these answers are correct

Answer explanation

field studies take place in a lab

• true

• false

Answer explanation

field studies take place outside of a lab or library