PSYCA326F practice lecture 6

_____ tests measure a client’s intellectual abilities, whereas _____ tests measure what a client has accomplished with those intellectual abilities.

• Objective personality, projective personality

• Intelligence, achievement

• Neuropsychological, intelligence

• Intelligence, personality

The notion of “g,” as proposed by Charles Spearman, suggests that, essentially,

• intelligence is one thing.

• intelligence is not one thing, but is many separate, unrelated things.

• intelligence tests for children must be fundamentally and structurally different than intelligence tests for adults.

• intelligence remains stable throughout the lifespan.

A _____ model of intelligence proposes that specific abilities exist and are important, but they are all somewhat related to each other and to a global, overall, general intelligence.

• topical

• hierarchical

• fluid

• multiple

The three-stratum theory of intelligence is a contemporary theory that proposes a single, overall ability that contains eight broad factors, each of which contain many more specific abilities. This theory was proposed by _____.

• Charles Spearman

• Louis Thurstone

• John Carroll

• James Cattell

Which of the following is true regarding current editions of the Wechsler intelligence tests?

• There are separate tests for three different populations: adults, children, and preschoolers.

• There is a single test that is appropriate for all clients ranging from preschool age through adulthood.

• There is a single test and it is appropriate for adults only.

• There are separate tests for five different populations: adults 65 and over, adults 35–64, adults under 35, children, and preschoolers.

Naturalistic observation is most likely to be practiced by a clinical psychologists who endorses

• projective personality tests.

• objective personality tests that emphasize normal personality traits.

• behavioral assessment.

• objective personality tests that emphasize abnormal or psychopathological aspects of personality.

The practice of evidence-based assessment is characterized by the selection of tests that meet all of the following criteria EXCEPT

• strong clinical utility.

• acceptable reliability and validity.

• sufficient normative data.

• endorsement by the American Psychological Association.

Behavioral assessment endorses the notion that

• personality is a stable, internal construct.

• client behaviors are signs of deep-seated, underlying issues or problems.

• assessing personality requires a high degree of inference.

• client behaviors are, themselves, the problem.