Deck 8: Psychological Tests and Measurement Scales

Question 1

1) The reliability of a psychological test is:

A) The extent to which it measures what it was intended to measure
B) The accuracy of the test
C) The consistency of the test
D) The evaluation of the test

Answer 1

C

Question 2

2) Response acquiescence set refers to:

A) The tendency of respondents to get into a pattern of agreeing with statements on a scale
B) The tendency of respondents to answer in a way that is socially desirable
C) The tendency of respondents to answer mainly in the middle of a scale
D) The tendency of respondents to disagree with an interviewer

Answer 2

A

Question 3

3) A psychometric test can best be described as:

A) A standardised instrument for assessing people's ability, aptitude, attitude or personality
B) A measure of ability only, such as IQ
C) A method of testing school children's achievements
D) A test to measure people's level of psychoticism

Answer 3

A

Question 4

4) "Boxing is a violent sport and should be banned". This is best described as an example of which type of poor scale item:

A) Double barrelled
B) Leading
C) Double negative
D) Complex

Question 5

5) In a Likert type scale:

A) Respondents are given a set of questions to which they must provide an answer
B) Respondents are given a set of statements with which they must select their level of agreement
C) Respondents must rate questions on a scale of 1 to 10
D) Respondents are asked to put items into rank order

Question 6

6) The type of test validity found by observing the degree to which it provides accurate estimates of scores on related variables is known as:

A) Face validity
B) Content validity
C) Predictive vapidity
D) Concurrent validity

Question 7

7) Investigating patterns of correlations among variables in order to identify underlying and explanatory variables is known as:

A) Factor analysis
B) Content analysis
C) Reliability testing
D) Concurrent validity testing

Question 8

8) In a visual analogue scale respondents are asked to:

A) Provide an open answer to several questions
B) Select their level of agreement with a set of statements from a list including 'strongly agree', 'agree' etc.
C) Rate statements on a scale of 1 to 10
D) Mark their estimated attitude, emotional or behavioural position on a line between two polar opposites

Question 9

9) Psychological scales are often standardised to a normal distribution because:

A) The pattern of scores is aesthetically pleasing
B) The pattern would prove that a measured psychological characteristic is innate
C) Use of the normal distribution enables powerful statistical comparisons and estimates
D) All psychological characteristics are normally distributed

Question 10

10) External reliability of a test can be estimated using:

A) The split half method
B) Item discrimination between extreme groups
C) Item-total correlations
D) The test retest method