QUIZ # 2

Each of the measures listed, determine what scale of measurement

most closely approximates the measure as described.
1. the score on a 35-item scale of ambivalence 
2. the pattern of scores on the MMPI personality inventory 
3. the rank of a person's salary within the company 
4. the number of children in your family 
5. the teacher's rankings of cooperativeness in the classroom 
6. the type of categorization errors in a sorting task 
7. the age at which one went on his or her first date 
8. the number of pound lost during a six-week diet 
9. the types of grammatical errors made in a writing sample 
10.the heart rate of the participant 
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 ANSWERS
1. INTERVAL
2. NOMINAL
3.ORDINAL
4. RATIO
5. ORDINAL
6. NOMINAL
7. RATIO
8. RATIO
9. NOMINAL
10. RATIO

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 Application

1. You have a client who does not want their records

released under any circumstances. The attorney has
subpoenaed you. Your best way of action is to:

A. Respond in-person, but don't take the records

B. Take the records, but don't turn them over
C. Ignore the entire matter
D. Destroy the records
2. A 16-year-old girl tells her therapist that she wants to kill herself and that
she's been thinking of using her mother's prescription pain pills to
overdose. The therapist then tells her that he will have to tell her parents
about her suicide risk. The girl becomes enraged and says that she would
not have disclosed the information if she knew that the therapist would tell
her parents. The therapist should:

A. agree not to tell the parents if the girl agrees to a no-harm contract
B. agree not to tell the parents, but tell them without the girl's knowledge
C. tell the parents and refer the girl to another therapist because she will
probably not be able to trust the therapist again
D. tell the parents and apologize to the girl for having to do so
3. An “informed consent” from a client:

A. Must always be in writing

B. Must always be in writing and in the client’s
native language
C. May be either verbal or in writing
D. May be either verbal or in writing but must
be documented
4. Some limits to confidentiality are:
a. need to discuss helping
experiences with supervisor
b. intent to harm self or others needs to
be reported
c. childhood abuse needs to be
reported
d. theft
e. only b and c
5. The primary value underlying the existence of
Ethical Principles is:

a. confidentiality of therapist-client
communication.
b. the continued prosperity of the field of
psychology.
c. the advancement of the welfare of society as a
whole.
d. the advancement and protection of the welfare
of the patients and clients of psychologists.
6. You administer multiple personality and intelligence tests
to a client. The client later asks to see the results. You
should:

a. provide the client with the raw test data, since he has a
legal right of access to it.
b. provide the client with an oral and written summary of the
results in clear, understandable language.
c. evaluate the client's intellectual ability, and provide the
results if you feel he is capable of understanding them.
d. tell the client that you cannot provide him with the
information he requested.
7. A psychologist is dating a graduate student in his class. The
student is older than others in the class (she is approximately
the same age as the psychologist). She has returned to school
after 15 years. The psychologist's behavior is:

a. unethical only if he is engaging in a sexual relationship with

the student.
b. unethical regardless of whether he is engaging in a sexual
relationship with the student.
c. ethical because their appears to be little potential for harm.
d. ethical as long as it does not violate any university
regulations.
On the horizontal axis, write “frequency (f)” and “percentile
(%)”. On the vertical axis, write your list of items. In this
example, we have four distinct blood types: A, B, AB, and O.

A, O, A, B, B, AB, B, B, O, A, O, O, O, AB, B, AB, AB, A, O,

A.
Blood Type Frequency Percentile
(f) (%)