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Psychological Assessment
Who is the father of psychometrics and eugenics? He also introduced the anthropometric records of
students and the idea of correlation.
a. Francis Galton
b. Charles Darwin
c. Gustav Theodor Fechner
d. Kaplan and Cohen
He is the pioneer of factor analysis and was accredited with identifying the need to minimize
measurement errors of testing.
a. John L. Horn
b. E.L. Thorndike
c. Joy Paul Guilford
d. Charles Spearman
What type of validity comes from assessments of simultaneous relationships between the test and the
criterion. Moreover, the criterion data are collected before or at the same time that the predictor is
administered.
a. Concurrent Validity
b. Content Validity
c. Construct Validity
d. Predictive Validity
If a particular test has been shown to accurately predict success in a particular job, then a test is said to
have what type of validity?
a. Predictive Validity
b. Convergent Validity
c. Incremental validity
d. Divergent validity
If a particular test correlates highly with other variables with which it should correlate, then the test is
said to have what type of validity?
a. Predictive Validity
b. Convergent Validity
c. Incremental validity
d. Divergent validity