Deck 2: The Clinical Interview, Maruish

Question 1

Psychologists should only practice those skills, techniques, and interventions for which they have adequate training and/or oversight. This is referred to as:

A) Competence
B) Preprofessionalism
C) Expertise
D) Ethics

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Why should test materials be protected from public disclosure?

A) Test items are often protected by copyright.
B) People might study them to score a particular way.
C) Neither A nor B
D) Both A and B

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The four types of criterion-related validity are:

A) Content validity, face validity, concurrent validity, and discriminant validity
B) Incremental validity, face validity, predictive validity, and content validity
C) Construct validity, predictive validity, content validity, and statistical validity
D) Concurrent validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and predictive validity

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The assessment model designed to make the assessment intervention transformative for patients is referred to as:

A) Clinical assessment
B) Person-centered assessment
C) Therapeutic assessment
D) Humanistic Assessment

Question 5

Describe the difference between psychological assessment and psychological testing.

Question 6

Describe the difference between a test and a technique.

Question 7

When is ICC a better statistic than kappa?

Question 8

Your professor asks, "Is this test valid?" Why is that question unanswerable?

Question 9

Professor X administers a new measure simultaneously with an older measure of the same construct. She is attempting to establish:

A) Predictive validity
B) Concurrent validity
C) Discriminant validity
D) Convergent validity

Question 10

The purposes of personality assessment include all of the following except:

A) Description of psychopathology
B) Ascribing motivations
C) Informing psychological treatment
D) Measuring treatment outcome

Question 11

The current choice of terms for psychological tests include:

A) Behavioral, projective, and self-report
B) Self-report, objective, and projective-based
C) Projective, objective, and behavioral
D) Performance-based, behavioral, and self-report

Question 12

The most widely used personality assessment measure is:

A) MMPI/MMPI-2
B) Rorschach Inkblot Test
C) Thematic Apperception Test
D) WAIS-IV

Question 13

The Big Five are:

A) Neuroticism, openness, relatedness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness
B) Openness, agreeableness, sensibleness, relatedness, and flexibility
C) Openness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, and extroversion
D) Extroversion, introversion, judging, flexibility, and relatedness

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true?

A) If a test is reliable, it must be valid.
B) Reliability is a function of a test score, not a test.
C) Reliability is a function of a test, not necessarily a test score.
D) Measures of traits have poorer reliability statistics than measures of states.

Question 15

Describe how the field of personality assessment has changed since its inception.