0000002070 00000 n The concept of aggregation suggests that traits are, Vince is watching his school's team play in the championship basketball game. \text{b.} C. projective test Most personality inventories employ these types of response scales. Roberto is quiet and shy, lacks self-confidence, and usually follows others. Dr. Akita is using the ________ method of test construction. Rather, they represent the best judgments of testing professionals about the reasonable expectations that those involved in the testing enterprise (test producers, test users, and test takers) should have of each other. He is wildly cheering his team on to victory, talking to everyone around him, even though they are strangers, and shouting at the referees for making bad calls on his team. American Psychological Association. 0000006829 00000 n As described in the text, according to some motivation researchers, the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) measures ________, whereas questionnaire-based measures predict ________. After 2 years on the job, police officers responses indicated an increased vulnerability to alcoholism, somatic symptoms (vague, unexplained physical complaints), and anxiety. B. assess Jung's psychological types Dr. Akita is designing a test to measure sociability. 0000004269 00000 n Ask questions prior to testing if you are uncertain about why the test is being given, how it will be given, what you will be asked to do, and what will be done with the results. Mischel thought that _____ were most important in determining behavior. If you have difficulty in comprehending the language of the test, you have a right to know in advance of testing whether any accommodations may be available to you. What makes someone a bad or dangerous police officer? These incomplete sentences resemble the types of questions on the RISB. Cite three examples of the territorial powers of Congress. Eysenck's taxonomy has been criticized on which one of these issues? the extremely strong effects of the immediate situation. The Barnum effect refers to the tendency to. Developed in 1921 by Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, this psychological On December 31, Martinez reported net income of $122,000 for the year. David will generally be on time for work most days next week. Which of the following values would automatically tell the researcher that he or she made a mistake? Webserved as the data pool to ascertain the extent of use of projective instruments within the context of psychological tests available to mental health practitioners. The idea that certain personality traits may elicit specific responses from the environment is known as ___. C. Factor analytic Provide corrected test scores to test takers as rapidly as possible, should an error occur in the processing or reporting of scores. D. have validity but little reliability, A researcher computes a correlation coefficient between variables X and Y using a handheld calculator. Insure that test conditions, especially if unusual, do not unduly interfere with test performance. The interview In an interview the individual under assessment must be given considerable latitude in telling his story. Interviews have both verbal and nonverbal ( e.g., gestural) components. A behavioroid measure is a combination of which two types of data? C. Big bandwidth inventories situational variables; personality traits. Some examples of projective tests are the Rorschach Inkblot Test, the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the Contemporized-Themes Concerning Blacks test, the TEMAS (Tell-Me-A-Story), and the Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB). Projective tests involve presenting the test-taker with a Ask about the confidentiality of your test results, if this aspect concerns you. Describe what happens to the profit for this product when the number of units produced is between 1 and 1600. c. What happens to the profit after 1600 units are produced? Which approach is concerned with identifying the number of fundamental individual differences? listening to the target describe his or her thoughts and feeling. -Personality Research Form The RISB is used in screening college students for adjustment problems and in career counseling (Holaday, Smith, & Sherry, 2010; Rotter & Rafferty 1950). A. Have your test results kept confidential to the extent allowed by law. For trait psychologists, any meaningful way in which people _____ may potentially be identified as a personality trait. -all of the above, Recent research using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to study shyness indicates that ________, "controlled" aspects of shyness can be predicted using S data, but uncontrolled or spontaneous aspects can be more accurately predicted using B data, Arlene Lacombe, Kathryn Dumper, Rose Spielman, William Jenkins. Its orientation is to encourage positive and high quality interactions between testing professionals and test takers. 256 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 259 /H [ 1169 667 ] /L 287959 /E 10384 /N 40 /T 282720 >> endobj xref 256 29 0000000016 00000 n Prepare all necessary journal entries in 2020 for both situations. a psychologist's interpretation of a participant's responses to an unstructured clin-ical interview. Yet their popularity in clinical use continues unabat-ed (p. 564). At December 31, the market price of Martinez Fashion was$15 per share. Walter Mischel suggested that personality psychologists should shift their focus of explaining behavior to ____. Know when and where the test will be given, pay for the test if required, appear on time with any required materials, and be ready to be tested. WebAbstract. Your responses to the personality test item "I am an intelligent person" would be ________ data, whereas your score on an intelligence test that reflects the number of problems you got right would be ________ data. She writes items that seem di-rectly and obviously related to sociability, such as "I like to go to parties" and "I enjoy the company of other people." A. social desirability This means that personality can be observed by studying ___. 0000005970 00000 n Such information would include variation in test performance due to measurement error (e.g., the appropriate standard errors of measurement) and changes in performance over time with or without intervention (e.g., additional training or treatment). Which design is best suited for addressing the third-variable problem? Research regarding the person-situation debate indicates that ________ are relevant to how people will act under specific circumstances and that ________ are better for describing how people act in general. WebWhen evaluated as psychometric instruments, most projective tests. C. aggregation Omnibus inventories In a series of studies about intellectual expectancies, Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) found that schoolchildren randomly identified as "bloomers" showed an average IQ in-crease of about 15 points by the end of the school year. Follow instructions given by testing professionals. Funder notes that the person who is most talkative at a party is also likely to be the most talkative at the department of motor vehicles (DMV). Provide, upon request, information to test takers about their options for obtaining a second interpretation of their results. %PDF-1.3 % Which of the following is LEAST likely to be considered B data? However, this common practice may limit ________. a person who tends to happy and experience positive affect in life would have this combination of five factor traits: Individuals who are open to experience tend to be. The Stanford-Binet is the American adaptation of the original French Binet-Simon intelligence test; it was first introduced in 1916 by Lewis Terman, a psychologist at Stanford University. Therefore, it was vital to develop other personality assessments that explored factors such as race, language, and level of acculturation (Hoy-Watkins & Jenkins-Moore, 2008). Explain to test takers why they should consider taking voluntary tests. What is the null hypothesis in this analysis? Which of the following psychologists is often credited with starting the person-situation debate? Imagine that you want to develop a test to measure depression. Webof the studies conducted on psychological instruments, includ-ing projective techniques, researchers begin with known groups (e.g., individuals with versus without a history of For many decades, these traditional projective tests have been used in cross-cultural personality assessments. tell stories about pictures that the psychologist shows them. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. Inform test takers, upon request, how much their scores might change, should they elect to take the test again. What kinds of behaviors by an acquaintance would most likely be re-membered? Lock took possession of the box and its contents. Psych 244: Review Quizzes 4,5 & 6 for Exam 2, Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Philip Zimbardo, Robert L. Johnson, Vivian McCann. TEMASstanding for Tell Me a Story but also a play on the Spanish word temas (themes)uses images and storytelling cues that relate to minority culture (Constantino, 1982). Receive a brief oral or written explanation prior to testing about the purpose(s) for testing, the kind(s) of tests to be used, if the results will be reported to you or to others, and the planned use(s) of the results. 0000006829 00000 n Complete the test as directed. In such cases a test taker may need to request clarifications about their rights and responsibilities. At 8:00 a.m., Reliability scales test an instruments consistency over time, assuring that if you take the MMPI-2-RF today and then again 5 years later, your two scores will be similar. b. If you were to fully develop a personality test without even looking at the item content, you would be using the ________ method of test construction. In 2008, the test was again revised, using more advanced methods, to the MMPI-2-RF. Once so informed, it is the responsibility of the test taker to accept such consequences, and the testing professional should so inform the test takers. Because test takers have the right to be tested with measures that meet professional standards that are appropriate for the test use and the test taker, given the manner in which the results will be used, testing professionals should: Take steps to utilize measures that meet professional standards and are reliable, relevant, useful given the intended purpose and are fair for test takers from varying societal groups. Nat is thoughtful and well liked. However, it was found that test bias limited their usefulness (Hoy-Watkins & Jenkins-Moore, 2008). an atypical behavior that was emotionally evocative. a common obligation to try to understand the whole person, Roots of personality psychology can be traced to the theater because. 1999-2023, Rice University. In line with the ________ process, if someone is high on conscientiousness, she will most likely select environments that promote achievement and order. What is a primary goal of the trait approach to personality? Teachers show an increased willingness to ignore disciplinary problems in these stu-dents. Testing professionals should respond appropriately to questions regarding the reasons why such individuals may have access to test results and how they may use the results. The number between -1 and +1 that indexes the linear association between any two variables is called ________. WebPersonality testing is often used for this purposeto screen applicants for employment and job training. We recommend using a Of these three, who would make the best police officer? Persons who engage in each of these activities have significant responsibilities that are described elsewhere, in documents such as those that follow (American Association for Counseling and Development, 1988; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1994; Joint Committee on Testing Practices, 1988; National Association of School Psychologists, 1992; National Council on Measurement in Education, 1995). Discriminant validity is established when a test. Because test takers have the right to be informed, prior to testing, about the test's purposes, the nature of the test, whether test results will be reported to the test takers, and the planned use of the results (when not in conflict with the testing purposes), testing professionals should: Give or provide test takers with access to a brief description about the test purpose (e.g., diagnosis, placement, selection, etc.) & \text{18,200} & \text{2,100}\\ WebSome individuals have suggested that projective techniques are not tests and therefore should not be subjected to the constraints normally applied to psychometric instruments (e.g., Schwartz & Lazar, 1979), though as noted by Chandler (2003): Certain basic questions may legitimately be asked of any Factor analytic They often are called Likert scales after their developer, Rensis Likert (1932) (Figure 11.16). processed. Terry and Stocks filed a suit in an Arkansas state court against Lock and his corporation to obtain the currency. What term refers to personality inventories that are designed to measure a wide range of traits? Describe the key elements of studying economics. In survey of Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologists (ABPP/CN), Sweet et al. GrossPaythroughAugust$6,40018,200112,200GrossPayforSeptember$8002,1008,000. -attitudes toward political leaders ), unless such information might be detrimental to the objectives of the test. OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Which of the following behaviors would be the easiest to predict accurately? 0000005115 00000 n 0000008516 00000 n Want to cite, share, or modify this book? -Rorschach For example, when the TAT was used with African-American test takers, the result was often shorter story length and low levels of cultural identification (Duzant, 2005). B. The average time for completing the test is approximately 20 minutes, as responses are only 12 words in length. 0.75 Often, sentence completion tests are administered to clients without a clear sense of the clinical questions to be investigated, and, therefore, the appropriate sentence completion instrument to be used. If you have difficulty comprehending the language of the test, it is your responsibility to inform an examiner. Cattell's taxonomy included _____ traits. believe vague generalities about one's own personality. However, when her dad flattens one ball into a pancake shape, Lynn is confident that the pancake has more clay than the ball. Author: Silver Springs, MD. 256 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 259 /H [ 1169 667 ] /L 287959 /E 10384 /N 40 /T 282720 >> endobj xref 256 29 0000000016 00000 n Washington, DC: Author. Archer Co. completed the following transactions and uses a perpetual inventory system. Be treated with courtesy, respect, and impartiality, regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics. The MMPI-2 takes 12 hours to complete. Inform test takers about the type of feedback and interpretation that is routinely provided, as well as what is available for a fee. By the end of this section, you will be able to: Roberto, Mikhail, and Nat are college friends and all want to be police officers. If you were shown an inkblot and asked to describe what you saw, you would be taking the ________. This section explores the best known among the many different types of personality tests. Testing professionals should: Inform test takers that, if they need special testing arrangements, it is their responsibility to request appropriate accommodations and to provide any requested documentation as far in advance of the testing date as possible. Mischel stated that correlations between personality traits and behavior were, almost always about .30 or slightly higher. One objection to the use of vocational interest tests is that these tests ________, may discourage women or minority group members from joining certain fields, The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was designed to ________, Inventories derived from the empirical method sometimes have items that seem strange or even objectionable to test takers ________, because those items correlated with outcomes of interest to the test developers, When evaluated as psychometric instruments, most projective tests ________, A test created using the empirical method yields what kind of data, Personality assessment would be relevant to which of the following constructs? a. Provide, upon request, information to test takers about the sources used in interpreting their test results, including technical manuals, technical reports, norms, and a description of the comparison group, or additional information about the test taker(s). Testing professionals should inform test takers that it is their responsibility to notify appropriate persons, as specified by the testing organization, if they do not understand their results, or if they believe that testing conditions affected the results. (1999). Provide test takers with information about the use of computers, calculators, or other equipment, if any, used in the testing and give them an opportunity to practice using such equipment, unless its unpracticed use is part of the test purpose, or practice would compromise the validity of the results, and to provide a testing accommodation for the use of such equipment, if needed. The investigation should use all available information that addresses the reason(s) for the investigation, and the test taker should also be informed of the information that he/she may need to provide to assist with the investigation. A. random responses C. Philosophical Because test takers have the right to be treated with courtesy, respect, and impartiality, regardless of their age, disability, ethnicity, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics, testing professionals should: Make test takers aware of any materials that are available to assist them in test preparation. when Budds shop opened today, five orders (listed in order of arrival) were waiting to be A. D. Lock owned Lock Hospitality, Inc., which in turn owned the Best Western Motel in Conway, Arkansas. D. Empirical, Chapter 6: Traits and Types: The Big Five and. Thematic apperception test It is difficult to assess the personalities and lifestyles of members of widely divergent ethnic/cultural groups using personality instruments based on data from a single culture or race (Hoy-Watkins & Jenkins-Moore, 2008). Rational A. Rorschach understand everything about a person all at once. avoid the acquiescence response-set bias. WebProjective tests are relatively inefficient and expensive to administer. Integrity tests administered in employment screening provide good measures of ________. From psychologist Walter Mischel's perspective, Vince is primarily behaving due to. 0000007666 00000 n Involve the construction of stories and narratives Which is stronger? Which of the following is another term for behavioral confirmation? Which two traits had the highest levels of accuracy for both female and male targets? An important difference between projective techniques and self-report measures is the much greater reliance of the self-report measures on, the willingness of the examinee to disclose personal information overtly. Test Taker Rights and Responsibilities Working Group of the Joint Committee on Testing Practices August, 1998. American Association for Counseling and Development (now American Counseling Association) & Association for Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development (now Association for Assessment in Counseling). The daily profit for a product is given by P=32x0.01x21000P=32 x-0.01 x^2-1000P=32x0.01x21000, where x is the number of units produced and sold. B. If youve ever taken a survey, you are probably familiar with Likert-type scale questions. You gather a set of 100 potential test items Testing professionals should inform test takers about the documentation needed to receive a requested testing accommodation. Review Questions Which of the following is NOT a projective test? Random variations tend to cancel out when aggregated. Should the cash be characterized as lost, mislaid, or abandoned property? Provide test takers with information that will be of use in making decisions if test takers have options regarding which tests, test forms or test formats to take. They are trustworthy, but are very methodical and therefore have difficulty making quick decisions. You always show up to work on time, and your colleagues say that you are dependable and conscientious. Inform test takers that, if they request but do not receive a testing accommodation, they could request information about why their request was denied. identify groups of test items that seem to be alike. Personality psychology shares with clinical psychology________. Characteristics that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other ways. A. However, only about 11% reported using them often or always. B. do not fare very well If you are redistributing all or part of this book in a print format, b. Which of the following is an example of a projective test? 0000006807 00000 n Tests are defined broadly here as psychological and educational instruments developed and used by testing professionals in organizations such as schools, industries, clinical practice, counseling settings and human service and other agencies, including those assessment procedures and devices that are used for making inferences about people in the above-named settings. Indicate which stage of cognitive development is illustrated by the example below. Present concerns about the testing process or your results and receive information about procedures that will be used to address such concerns. They are not biased by the cohort effect. WebThe Rorschach Inkblot Test is a projective test designed to assess psychological disorders. On December 31, Seles reported a net income of $85,000 for the year. 0000002308 00000 n On June 15, Seles declared and paid cash dividends of$36,000 to all stockholders. When doing research, personality psychologists most often focus on ____. Personality assessment refers to ________. In such an event, that investigation should be performed in a timely manner. 0000000949 00000 n What is the best approach to test construction? does not correlate with measures of unrelated constructs. C. Aggression A psychologist administering the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) asks respondents to ________. A. Kurt F. Geisinger, PhD (Co-Chair); William Schafer, EdD (Co-Chair); Gwyneth Boodoo, PhD; Ruth Ekstrom, EdD; Tom Fitzgibbon, PhD; John Fremer, PhD; Joanne Lenke, PhD; Sharon Goldsmith, PhD; Kevin Moreland, PhD; Julie Noble, PhD; James Sampson Jr., PhD; Douglas Smith, PhD; Nicholas Vacc, EdD; Janet Wall, EdD. 0000002200 00000 n In addition to clinical scales, the tests also have validity and reliability scales. Despite these shortcomings, the TAT has been one of the most widely used projective tests. They typically use multiple-choice items or numbered scales, which represent a range from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). For BMX, its FUTA taxes are 0.6% and SUTA taxes are 2.9% of the first$7,000 paid to its employee. According to Dan McAdams, the narrative theme of "agency" organizes the life story around ________. The intent of this statement is to enumerate and clarify the expectations that test takers may reasonably have about the testing process, and the expectations that those who develop, administer, and use tests may have of test takers. These materials should be clearly described in test registration and/or test familiarization materials. Inform test takers, prior to testing, if questions from test takers will not be permitted during the testing process. WebThree categories of psychological tests are then known: (1) projective tests, (2) self-report and objective tests and (3) objective tests with direct observation. Inform test takers that, if they have a disability, they have the right to request and receive accommodations or modifications in accordance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other relevant legislation. Receive a written or oral explanation of your test results within a reasonable amount of time after testing and in commonly understood terms. Allen will most likely display an in-crease in which trait? 0000006807 00000 n WebYou gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. Because test takers have the right to be informed about why they are being asked to take particular tests, if a test is optional, and what the consequences are should they choose not to complete the test, testing professionals should: Normally only engage in testing activities with test takers after the test takers have provided their informed consent to take a test, except when testing without consent has been mandated by law or governmental regulation, or when consent is implied by an action the test takers have already taken (e.g., such as when applying for employment and a personnel examination is mandated). Projective tests capitalize on this tendency by providing a wide latitude for how a person can respond to semi-ambiguous stimuli or instructions. Advise test takers that they are entitled to limit access to their results (when individually identified) to those persons or institutions, and for those purposes, revealed to them prior to testing. Know in advance of testing when the test will be administered, if and when test results will be available to you, and if there is a fee for testing services that you are expected to pay. C. Administer the items to a new sample People in one group may have certain personality features in common, and these common features make that group of people distinct from other groups. Walter Mischel and his 1968 book Personality and Assessment are note-worthy because this work ________. You gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. For example, if someone responds yes to a number of unrealistically positive items such as I have never told a lie, they may be trying to fake good or appear better than they actually are. Code of fair testing practices in education. What term describes computer-assisted methods to measure thoughts and feelings that occur during normal daily activities? 0000005992 00000 n When gathering data or clues about personality, the best policy is to ________. Test conditions will normally be similar to those used to standardize the test. Creative Commons Attribution License Personality tests are also used in criminal cases and custody battles, and to assess psychological disorders. Inform test takers prior to testing about any anticipated fee for the testing process, as well as the fees associated with each component of the process, if the components can be separated. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 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