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| On the Wechsler scales for children (WISC) the starting point is determined by: |
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| The Child's chronological age |
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| The Kaufman Assessment battery for children. It measures cognitive ability and achievement. It measures simultaneous skills and sequential skills. |
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| It's a differential abilities scale. It measures cognitive abilities. |
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| The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised. This version has verbal and performance subtests. |
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| The Woodcock Johnson test revised. A psychoeducational battery that tests resding, written language, math and broad knowledge. |
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| What are the Bayley scales? |
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| A scale designed to assess infant's motor, language and cognitive development. |
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| The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory which includes more minority group members and attempts to measure pathology. |
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| What are the Kuder Preference and Interest Scales? |
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| A scale appropriate for students in junior high and high school. |
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| What is an achievement test? |
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| A test that measures what's been learned. |
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| What is a formative test? |
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| It's given during the course of learning to help teachers modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment. |
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| What is a Summative test? |
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| Monitors educational outcomes for purposes of external accountability. |
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| What are readiness or aptitude tests? |
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| These tests assess whether you're ready for a particular program or performance task. |
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| What is a norm referenced test? |
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| Where an individual test takers scores are compared to a group of test takers on the same test. |
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| What is criterion referenced testing? |
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| A score is evaluated based on a set standard or criterion without reference to the performance of others. |
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| criteria referenced tests have_______ content. |
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| Norm references tests have_____ content? |
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| Hippocrates came up with what personality typologies? |
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| Choleric(bossy), Plegmatic(dependent), Melancholic(avoiding), Sanguine(giving). |
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| Kefir came up with which personality types? |
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| Superiority, control, pleasing, avoiding |
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| What is factor analysis and show an example in testing. |
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| It's a data reduction method. Personal dimension scale. |
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| What is an example of a logical personality test construction? |
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| When did more objective and specific criteria have to be met in the DSM and what version was this? |
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| When did the dsm IV come out and what changed? |
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| In 1994. Changes to the dx criteria. |
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| What changed about the DSMIV-TR? And when? |
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| Language was revised in 2000. |
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| What is different about the DSM V? |
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| It's more research based. |
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| What are the 5 axis in the DSM? |
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| 1. Clinical disorders 2. Personality and intellectual disorders 3. Medical 4. Psychosocial and environmental 5. GAF scale. |
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| California Psychological Inventory. True/false questions that yield information on personality-related variables. |
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| What is empirical criteria keying? |
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| Using criterion groups to develop test items. The scoring has been shown to differentiate among groups of test takers. |
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| Thematic Apperception test. A test with a series of cards with pictures of people, groups, no people, or blank. Used to elicit fantasy material. |
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| What does the NEO measure? |
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| Neuroticism, extraversion, openness. |
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| What is the content oriented approach to test development? |
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| The use of logic in the development of test items. |
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| What is an objective method of personality assessment? |
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| items written in multiple choice, true false or matching format. |
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| Thematic apperception test for children ages 3-10. It uses animals. |
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| What is an analogue study? |
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| behavioral intervention that replicates a variable that a scientist wants to study. (fear of snakes in the wild, but in a laboratory) |
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| It involves assigning numbers to different amounts of the trait measured. |
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| what is a semantic differential technique? |
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| An approach to item construction on surveys. It places a pair of bipolar adjectives on a 7 point scale. (good--------Bad) |
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| What is the Strong vocational interest blank(SVIB)? |
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| A test that probes occupations, school subjects and activities. On a 5 point continuum. |
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| What is the self directed search? |
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| An interest inventory that uses Holland's theory of vocational personality types. |
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| What are Holland's 6 personality types that determine vocational code? |
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| Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional |
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| What is the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory? |
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| An interest inventory that compares interest patterns with those of person's employed in nonprofessional occupations. |
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| What is the GATB and what is it used for? |
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| The general aptitude test battery. It's used by state employment agencies, school districts, and other organizations to identify aptitudes for occupations. |
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| Which test is atheoretical? |
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