Psychological Assessment

The term psychological assessment applies to ...

• clinical settings only.

• self-administered tests only.

• employment, clinical, and educational settings only.

• the use of tests and other tools of evaluation.

Psychological assessment may include the use of ...

• behavioral observation.

• testing.

• the case study.

• All of these.

Which is not a variant of the term assessment?

• remote assessment

• retroactive assessment

• ecological momentary assessment

• retrospective assessment

Psychological testing ...

• is typically more lengthy than assessment.

• may be one component of the process of assessment.

• is characteristically broader in scope than assessment.

• tends to be less accurate than assessment.

A key difference between psychological testing and psychological assessment has to do with ...

• the number of hours it takes to proctor a test session.

• the role of the test user in interpreting the results.

• whether or not the evaluation includes an oral test.

• the utility of the test in a cost versus benefit analysis.

Testing is to assessment as _____________ is to ________________.

• blood test; physical exam

• blood test; X-ray

• mechanic; automobile

• selection; placement

Psychometrics may BEST be defined as ...

• the science of test development.

• the science of psychological measurement.

• the study and use of correlational techniques.

• the study of psychic phenomena.

The term psychometric soundness refers to the ...

• the general psychiatric health of an assessee.

• mental status of an individual during assessment.

• technical quality of a test or other tool of assessment.

• competence of a defendant to stand trial.

"What's a good test?" In part, a good test is one that ...

• trained examiners can administer with a minimum of difficulty.

• is useful in the sense that it yields actionable results.

• will ultimately benefit individual test takers or society as a whole.

• All of these

Test reliability refers to ...

• how accurately a test measures what it purports to measure.

• how consistently a test measures what it purports to measure.

• the "depth" of measurement of a particular construct.

• the "bandwidth" of measurement of a particular construct.