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- Name six uses for psychological testing.
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1. Diagnosis of pathology
2. Assessment of personality traits
3. Measurement of brain functions
4. Treatment planning
5. Evaluation of achievement
6. Prediction - What is a face validity type of question? Why is it not always useful?
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1. One that asks the person straight-up. "Are you depressed?"
2. The person can be lying - What is construct validity?
- It tests whether or not the test is actually testing what it claims to be testing.
- What is concurrent validity?
- A test correlates well with a measure that has previously been validated.
- What is predictive validity?
- Whether or not a test acurrately predicts what it is supposed to predict.
- What is test-retest reliability?
- Whether or not you can produce the same results upon multiple retests.
- What is split-half reliability?
- If you divide the test items in two, does it give the same results.
- What is alternate form reliability?
- Do two different tests on the same material give you the same results.
- What is internal consistency reliability?
- Whether or not the test itself is perfect or not.
- What is interscorer reliabiliy?
- Do multiple interpreters give the same results from the same data?
- Why are normative results important in testing?
- Have to have a sense of how the individual compares to the group as a whole.
- What are some things that can relate to the variable of interest?
- Education, gender, language ect.
- What are seven different examples of cognitive functions?
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1. General Intelligence
2. Attention and orientation
3. Memory
4. Processing speed
5. Spatial problem solving
6. Language
7. Executive function - Name two general intelligence tests.
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1. Stanford-Binet
2. WAIS-3 - Name four memory tests.
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1. CVLT
2. AVLT
3. BVRT
4. WMS-3 - Name two language tests.
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1. COWA
2. Boston Naming - Name two Executive Function tests.
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1. WCST
2. Categories - Name two Processing Speed tests.
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1. Digit Symbol
2. Symbol Search - Name two Perceptual-Spatial tests.
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1. HVOT
2. JOLO - What are two broad uses of cognitive testing?
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1. Diagnosis
2. Intervention placing - What are five categories of personality testing?
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1. Aptitude/Interest
2. Personality (style, pathology)
3. Structured Interviews
4. Symptom Inventories
5. These tests can help determine what you want to be when you grow up and what you like/don’t like doing. - What is an example of on Aptitude/Interest test?
- Strong-Campbell