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Psychological Assessment
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Psychological Assessment
Which of the following tests is useful for assessing children 3 to 10 years of age who have sensory, motor, or speech deficits and was originally developed for children with cerebral palsy?
A. Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
B. Leiter International Performance Scale
C. Columbia Mental Ma...
Psychological Assessment Prepjet Exam #1-7, no 6 || Already
Passed.
Which of the following tests is useful for assessing children 3 to 10 years of age who have
sensory, motor, or speech deficits and was originally developed for children with cerebral palsy?
A. Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
B. Leiter International Performance Scale
C. Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
D. Cognitive Abilities Test correct answers C. Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
Items selected for inclusion in each Occupational Scale of the Strong Interest Inventory:
A. distinguished between employees who expressed high satisfaction with the occupation
assessed by the scale to those who expressed low satisfaction with the occupation.
B. distinguished between individuals employed in the occupation assessed by the scale and
individuals in a general representative sample.
C. were identified by subject matter experts as representative of the occupation assessed by the
scale.
D. had high correlations with other items in the scale and low correlations with items in other
scales. correct answers B. distinguished between individuals employed in the occupation
assessed by the scale and individuals in a general representative sample.
The Occupational Scales of the Strong Interest Inventory were derived using an empirical
criterion keying method that involved comparing the responses of males and females employed
in various occupations with the responses of males and females in a general representative
sample and including items in a scale that were consistently answered in the same way only by
males and females employed in that occupation. For example, items that were consistently
answered in the same way by psychologists but not by people in the general representative
sample were included in the psychologist scale.
The Dot Counting Test (DCT) is most useful:
A. for detecting dysfunction in selective attention.
B. for detecting feigned cognitive impairment.
C. as a screening test for mild neurocognitive disorder.
D. as a screening test for attention deficits. correct answers B. for detecting feigned cognitive
impairment.
The DCT requires examinees to count grouped and ungrouped dots printed on separate cards as
quickly as possible. Poor effort is suggested when the time taken to count grouped dots (which
should be easier to count) is equal to or greater than the time taken to count ungrouped dots. It
allows examiners to detect poor test-taking effort and whether it was intentional (e.g., due to
malingering) or unintentional and represents normal effort for several diagnostic groups (e.g.,
depression, schizophrenia, head injury).
The Halstead-Reitan produces an Impairment Index, and the recommended cutoff score for brain
impairment for individuals with IQ scores of 100 or higher is:
,A. .4
B. .8
C. -1.0
D. 5.0 correct answers A. .4
The Halstead-Reitan Impairment Index indicates the proportion of subtests that show evidence of
brain impairment and ranges from 0 to 1.0, with higher scores indicating greater impairment. The
recommended cutoff score for brain impairment depends on the individual's IQ: For those with
an IQ of 100 or higher, the cutoff score is .4; for those with an IQ less than 100, the cutoff is .5.
The "classic aging pattern" on measures of IQ refers to:
A. the tendency of scores on performance tests to hold up fairly well with increasing age while
scores on verbal tests do not.
B. the tendency of scores on verbal tests to hold up fairly well with increasing age while scores
on performance tests do not.
C. the tendency of scores on performance tests to increase throughout the lifespan while scores
on verbal tests remain relatively stable.
D. the tendency of scores on verbal tests to increase throughout the lifespan while scores on
performance tests remain relatively stable. correct answers B. the tendency of scores on verbal
tests to hold up fairly well with increasing age while scores on performance tests do not.
An advantage of computerized adaptive tests is that they:
A. are time- and cost-effective to develop.
B. allow examinees to review and change answers to items they have already answered.
C. reduce testing time without losing precision of measurement.
D. facilitate the interpretation of test scores. correct answers C. reduce testing time without
losing precision of measurement.
Siegel and Langford (1998) compared the MMPI-2 L, K, and F scale scores of two groups of
mothers undergoing child custody evaluations. They found that, when compared to mothers who
were not exhibiting parental alienation syndrome (PAS), mothers exhibiting PAS were more
likely to obtain:
A. significantly higher L and K scale scores and significantly lower F scale scores.
B. significantly higher F scale scores and significantly lower L and K scale scores.
C. significantly higher L scales scores and significantly lower K and F scale scores.
D. significantly higher K scale scores and significantly lower L and F scale scores. correct
answers A. significantly higher L and K scale scores and significantly lower F scale scores.
Parental alienation syndrome refers to a parent's behaviors that cause a child to express hatred
and resistance toward the other parent. Research by J. C. Siegel and J. S. Langford and others has
found that parents exhibiting PAS often obtain high L and K scale scores on the MMPI-2 and
low scores on the F scale, which indicates that they tend to rely on the primitive defenses of
denial, projection, splitting, and devaluation
A meta-analysis of research conducted by D'Iorio and colleagues (2017) compared the self-
ratings and informant-ratings of the personality characteristics of individuals with and without
, Alzheimer's disease. The results indicated that, for both ratings, individuals with Alzheimer's
disease were rated as having significantly:
A. higher levels of neuroticism and lower levels of openness and extraversion.
B. higher levels of neuroticism and openness and lower levels of extraversion.
C. higher levels of neuroticism, agreeableness, and extraversion.
D. lower levels of neuroticism, agreeableness, and extraversion. correct answers A. higher levels
of neuroticism and lower levels of openness and extraversion.
The Stroop Color and Word Test is most useful for assessing:
A. abstract thinking and cognitive flexibility in adults with alcohol use disorder.
B. attention and concentration in patients with traumatic brain injury.
C. perseveration and divided attention in children with autistic spectrum disorder.
D. selective attention and response inhibition in children with ADHD. correct answers D.
selective attention and response inhibition in children with ADHD.
The Technical and Interpretive Manual for the WAIS-IV reports the results of several factor
analyses that support the test's underlying ________ structure.
A. two-factor
B. three-factor
C. four-factor
D. six-factor correct answers C. four-factor
Several studies have confirmed that higher-than-normal scores on the MMPI-2's L and K scales
and a lower-than-normal score on its F scale are obtained by parents involved in custody disputes
who:
A. have a substance use disorder.
B. exhibit signs of parental alienation syndrome.
C. have borderline personality disorder.
D. are malingerers. correct answers B. exhibit signs of parental alienation syndrome.
The Boston Process Approach:
A. provides decision rules for identifying the presence and location of focal lesions that are
causing a patient's symptoms.
B. reduces testing time by providing guidelines for determining the order and number of tests
needed to identify areas of brain dysfunction.
C. emphasizes observing a patient's problem-solving activity to determine how, when, and why
the patient is unable to solve problems.
D. emphasizes identifying the personal, interpersonal, and contextual factors that have
contributed to a patient's cognitive impairments. correct answers C. emphasizes observing a
patient's problem-solving activity to determine how, when, and why the patient is unable to solve
problems.
Use of the Boston Process Approach is based on the assumption that qualitative analysis of a
patient's responses to test items provides more information than quantitative scores about the
patient's neuropsychological processes by identifying how, when, and why the patient is unable
to solve problems presented by test items.
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