FFA Section 2-3 review

Which words from the excerpt signal a contrast from one idea to the next?

• “And beyond its pop culture status..."

• “In custody disputes, for example..."

• "Yet almost since its creation..."

What is the meaning of the word ambiguous as it is used in the excerpt?

• able to be scored by skilled clinicians

• open to several possible meanings

• useful for personality assessments

Which quotations from the excerpt support that ambiguous means open to several possible meanings?

• "it has retained a central role"

• "to invite multiple interpretations"

Select two reasons the Rorschach test has been considered controversial.

• Clinicians administering the test used procedures that differed from one another.

• Data from research studies contradicted each other.

• Clinical psychologists refused to use the test for custody disputes.

• Test takers were able to find out the correct answers.

What evidence supports this thesis statement?

The Rorschach and other projective tests are useful because they provide users with information about a person’s psychological strengths and weaknesses, which cannot be learned through conversation alone. Select all that apply.

• “. . . the test is generally regarded as offering a richness of information about a person's psychological world that cannot be gained from interviews or from ‘self-report’ tests . . .”

• “‘There has been a substantial gap between the clinical use of these tests and what the research suggests about their validity.’”

• “The test is considered particularly powerful in situations in which people may not be expected to volunteer negative information about themselves.”

• “The tests, which often take hours to score and interpret, add little information beyond what can be gleaned from far less time-consuming assessments . . .”

• “. . . the test can yield a complex picture of people's psychological strengths and weaknesses, . . . including their intelligence and overall mental functioning.”

What evidence supports this thesis statement?

The Rorschach and other projective tests are not very useful because they take a lot of time to score, have questionable validity, and tend to “overpathologize” people.

Select all that apply.

• “‘There has been a substantial gap between the clinical use of these tests and what the research suggests about their validity.’”

• “The test is considered particularly powerful in situations in which people may not be expected to volunteer negative information about themselves.”

• “The tests, which often take hours to score and interpret, add little information beyond what can be gleaned from far less time-consuming assessments . . .”

• “. . . the test can yield a complex picture of people's psychological strengths and weaknesses, . . . including their intelligence and overall mental functioning.”

• “. . . the test tends to [make] even normal people look maladjusted.”

Which set of traits below best describes Charlie?

• Hard working and motivated

• Ignorant and adventurous

• Knowledgeable and curious

Which piece of evidence from the text best supports that Charlie is hard working and motivated in the first 3 Progress Reports of "Flowers for Algernon"?

• "I dont think I passd the raw shok test" (Keyes 285).

• "I had a test today. I think I faled it. and I think that maybe now they wont use me." (Keyes 285).

• "I said please let me try agen. Ill get it in a few minits becaus Im not so fast somtimes" (Keyes 285).