Psychological Assessment Drill 1

1. A psychological test is essentially an objective and standardized measure of

________________.
a) Sample of behavior
b) Summation of scores
c) Representation of cognition
d) Documentation of emotion
2. In a normal curve, what percentage of cases fall on the 1st standard deviation above and below
the mean?
a) 34.13%
b) 95.44%
c) 68.26%
d) 99.72%
3. A t score has a mean of ________ and a standard deviation of _________.
a) 0, 1
b) 100, 15
c) 500, 100
d) 50, 10
4. Romeo has an intelligence quotient of 130 for an IQ test he took for his Psychological
Assessment subject. He became curious on the value of his IQ when converted to T score. What
would be it’s value?
a) 40
b) 50
c) 70
d) 80
5. You took the National Medical Aptitude Test and you got a percentile rank of 85.
Approximately on what standard deviation would you fall under?
a) About -1 SD
b) About +1SD
c) About mean
d) About +2SD
6. The National Medical Aptitude Test would be considered what type of test?
a) Norm-referenced test; typical test
b) Norm-referenced test; maximal test
c) Criterion-referenced test; typical test
d) Criterion-referenced test; maximal test
7. Socio-demographic profiles such as socio-economic status operates on what scale of
measurement?
a) Nominal
b) Ordinal
c) Interval
d) Ratio
8. The psychometric property referring to the practicality of a psychological test in a certain
setting is called
a) Reliability
b) Validity
c) Utility
d) Generalizability
9. When you were conducting your thesis, your adviser asked you to pilot test your questionnaire
to your target respondents. You adviser also asked you to put a portion on your questionnaire in
which you respondents could comment on the content of your questionnaire. What type of
validity was shown in this situation?
a) Face Validity
b) Content Validity
c) Criterion Validity
d) Construct Validity
10. During your thesis as well, you were asked by your adviser to let experts validate on your
questionnaire before distributing the survey. What type of validity was shown in the situation?
a) Face Validity
b) Content Validity
c) Criterion Validity
d) Construct Validity
11. A registered psychometrician can administer the following tests. Point the exception.
a) Achievement Tests
b) Group Intelligence Tests
c) Personality Tests
d) Projective Tests
12. The University of the Philippines College Admission Tests uses two sets of examinations to
avoid cheating. Each tests have different questions but are considered to be equivalent. What
kind of reliability is being established?
a) Alternate-Form
b) Parallel Form
c) Test-Retest
d) Split Half
13. Your Abnormal Psychology Teacher also employs two sets of examinations during the finals.
Each set have the same questions but only the items are jumble. What kind of reliability is being
established?
a) Alternate-Form
b) Parallel Form
c) Test-Retest
d) Split Half
14. For your social psychology class, you were asked to do a scale measuring the correlation of
sleeping habits with the memory retention. The scale was found to have an r=0.80, p=0.07.
What can you infer from this?
a) The scale has a strong correlation and the finding is significant enough for it to be
accepted.
b) The scale has a moderate correlation and the finding is significant enough for it to be
accepted.
c) The scale has a strong correlation though the finding is insignificant so it it should be
rejected.
d) The scale has a moderate correlation though the finding is insignificant so it should be
rejected.
15. You are now a registered psychometrician. Your first task in the admissions office of a high
school is to analyze the reliability of their admissions test. The format of the exam is multiple
choice. What would be the best test to measure its reliability?
a) KR21
b) KR20
 c) Pearson r
d) Cronbach’s Alpha
16. If the test forms required is two and the test sessions required two, what reliability is being
examined?
a) Split-half
b) Alternate-Form (Intermediate)
c) Test-restest
d) Alternate form delayed
17. Exams measuring test-retest reliability are done in the format of pre-test or post-tests to measure
what kind of error variance?
a) Time Sampling
b) Content Sampling
c) Content Heterogeneity
d) Interscorer differences
18. The other term of umbrella validity is called
a) Content Validity
b) Criterion Validity
c) Construct Validity
d) Internal Consistency
19. PhilSAT is an examination taken by those who want to become lawyers. What kind of validity
is being measured by this exam?
a) Content description
b) Criterion prediction (temporal)
c) Criterion prediction (concurrent)
d) Construct identification
20. The set of test items used to construct a test (usually 2 times the number of items) is called.
a) Item pool
b) Item bank
c) Item blueprint
d) Item coverage
21. Intelligence tests such as WAIS-IV needs to be constructed, edited and re-normed every ten
years because of what issue in intelligence testing?
a) Frog Pond Effect
b) Reactivity
c) Culture Loading
d) Flynn Effect
22. Which of the following is true about issues of culture bias in testing?
a) Psychometricians and test makers could make a culture free intelligence test if they
research further.
b) Culture fair intelligence test is a test that ensures that all parameters of discrimination
are not included in the test.
c) Culture loading is a way to incorporate vocabulary, traditions and knowledge of a
culture in to an exam.
d) Differential Item functioning analysis is a process of looking for items equal to all
cultures.
23. Which of the following items is false about distribution of test scores in exam?
a) A negatively skewed distribution is an exam where test takers has a high score.
b) A positively skewed distribution is an exam where test takers got a low score.
c) In a negatively skewed distribution, the mean of the scores is greater than the mode.
 d) In a positively skewed distribution, the mode of the scores is lesser than the mean.
24. Psychometricians could also work in the industrial setting. Most are assigned in the recruitment
department. When a psychometrician conducts an interview and only notes of the recent
recollections of the interviewee, what kind of error would have been committed of the
psychometrician?
a) Recency Effect
b) Contrast Effect
c) Primacy Effect
d) Halo Effect
25. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-II is a personality test which uses which of the
following standard scores in its scoring?
a) Z-scores
b) Sten
c) T-scores
d) Deviation IQ
26. This is a theory/model in psychological testing which takes into consideration the true score and
score in measuring the obtained score.
a) Generalizability Theory
b) Domain Sampling Model
c) Classical Test Score Theory
d) Item Response Theory
27. In test development, after a test revision has been done, the test development goes back to?
a) Test Conceptualization
b) Test Construction
c) Test Tryout
d) Item Analysis
28. Psychologists and social workers normally have what kind of classification in the MBTI?
a) ENFP
b) ESFP
c) ENTJ
d) ENTP
29. The decision whether the scale would be norm referenced or criterion reference in decided upon
what stage of test development?
a) Test Conceptualization
b) Test Construction
c) Test Tryout
d) Item Analysis
30. Whenever tests are used for entrance examinations and job selection, what assumption of
testing is discussed?
a) Contributions of testing to society
b) Testing materials having strengths and weaknesses
c) Psychological traits being quantifiable
d) Psychological traits and states existing
31. During your thesis, you were asked to pick a sampling method. Your topic happened to be about
a certain indigenous group in the Cordilleras. What sampling method is suitable to your thesis
topic?
a) Stratified Sampling
b) Cluster Sampling
c) Purposive Sampling
 d) Convenience Sampling
32. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and Weschler Memory Scale are said to have equivalency
tables so that the scores from the different tests could be compared. What kind of norming is
present above?
a) National norms
b) National anchor norms
c) Subgroup norms
d) Age norms
33. The proportion of people that an assessment tool inaccurately identifies exhibiting a particular
trait is called.
a) False positive
b) False negatively
c) Hit rate
d) Miss rate
34. The University of the Philippines College of Medicine Admissions requires all of its applicants
to pass requirements. Afterwards, the admissions screen the applicants to make a list of
interviewees. After the interviewees are interviewed, a final list of accepted applicants is
released. What type of cut score is used in the situation?
a) Relative score
b) Fixed cut score
c) Multiple cut score
d) Multiple hurdles
35. You work for a clinical psychologist. Your clinic has patient which is presumed to have major
depressive disorder. You compared the results of Beck Depression Inventory with College
Adjustment Scale since the major complaint of the client is that his academics are the cause of
his depression. What type of validity is shown in the situation?
a) Content validity
b) Incremental validity
c) Concurrent validity
d) Predictive validity
36. Projective tests get their concepts and foundations from what theory of personality?
a) Psychodynamic
b) Cognitive
c) Trait and Factor
d) Behavioral
37. Personality tests get their concepts and foundations from what theory of personality?
a) Psychodynamic
b) Cognitive
c) Trait and Factor
d) Behavioral
38. National College Aptitude Examination is considered what type of psychological test?
a) Interest
b) Personality
c) Intelligence
d) Vocational
39. If an item in an exam has an item difficulty (p=0.8), what can you interpret from it?
a) Only 20% of student got the item correct.
b) 80% of those who answered the item got it correct.
c) The top 40% scorers of the exam got the item correct.
 d) The top 80% scorers of the exam got the item wrong.
40. The MBTI is a psychological test that employs what kind of scoring model?
a) Category Scoring
b) Cumulative Scoring
c) Ipsative Scoring
d) Summative Scoring
41. Edwards Personnel Preference Schedule is a psychological test which gets its ideas from which
of the following personality theorists?
a) Karen Horney
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Carl Rogers
d) Henry Murray
42. Which of the following statements are true?
a) Omnibus spiral format of a test is a format in which tests items are arranged from
difficult to the easiest.
b) Giveaway items are usually given in the middle of the test to lessen the anxiety of the
test takers.
c) Item reliability indicates the internal consistency of the test.
d) Item endorsement index is usually used in personality tests to gauge which items are fit
to include in the scale.
43. What theory in psychological testing uses computer to calculate the item difficulty of a certain
item to suit it to the capability of the test taker answering the test?
a) Domain Sampling Model
b) Classical Test Score Theory
c) Item Response Theory
d) Generalizability Theory
44. The following are instances when you don’t need to ask for informed consent, point the
exception.
a) A college entrance examination
b) A job selection test administration
c) When you need to test for the deciding capacity of test taker
d) When you have a long time client coming again for therapy
45. Which of the following situations could a psychometrician do in his/her capacity?
a) Administer individual intelligence tests
b) Intervene in emergency situations such as in suicidal patients
c) Conduct psychotherapies to patients
d) Give a diagnosis to a patient
46. The people who administer, score and interpret a psychological test is called.
a) Test user
b) Test sponsor
c) Test taker
d) Test publisher
47. The main difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist is that
a) Psychiatrists cannot conduct psychotherapies
b) Psychologists cannot diagnose patients with mental disorders
c) Psychiatrists can prescribe medications
d) Psychologists can certify psychological reports
48. You told your client that she is diagnosed with major depressive disorder when in fact, her
diagnosis is a cyclothymia. What ethical principle did you violate?
 a) Autonomy
b) Non maleficence
c) Veracity
d) Fidelity
49. Which of the following scales in the MMPI-2 were not validated clinically?
a) Hypochondriasis and Psychodeviate
b) Hypomania and Psychasthenia
c) Masulinity-Femininity and Social Introversion
d) Hysteria and Depression
50. What does a 100 percentile rank mean?
a) The test taker has gotten 100% of the items in an exam correctly.
b) The test taker scored better than 100% of the rest of the test takers.
c) The test taker is the top scorer in the exam.
d) It is impossible to get a 100 percentile.

Answer Key
1. A
2. C
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. B
11. D
12. A
13. B
14. C
15. B
16. D
17. A
18. C
19. B
20. A
21. D
22. C
23. C
24. A
25. C
26. C
27. C
28. A
29. A
30. A
31. C
32. B
33. D
34. D
35. C
36. A
37. C
38. D
39. B
40. A
41. D
42. C
43. C
44. D
45. B
46. A
47. C
48. C
49. C
50. D