Prophecy Core Mandatory Part 3 Questions and

Prophecy Core Mandatory Part 3 Questions and Correct Answers Guaranteed Success ________ did research and concluded that intelligence was normally distributed like height or weight and that it was primarily genetic.

• Spearman
• Guilford
• Williamson
• Galton - Correct Answerd. Galton

________ would be an informal method of appraisal.

• IQ testing
• Standardized personality testing
• GRE scores
• A checklist - Correct Answerd. A checklist

A career counselor is using a test for job selection purposes. An acceptable reliability coefficient would be ________ or higher.

• .20
• .55
• .80
• .70 - Correct Answerc. .80

A client who takes a normative test

• cannot legitimately be compared to others who have taken the test.
• can legitimately be compared to others who have taken the test.
• could not have taken an IQ test.
• could not have taken a personality test. - Correct Answerb. can legitimately be

compared to others who have taken the test.

A colleague of yours invents a new projective test. Seventeen counselors rated the same client using the measure and came up with nearly identical assessments. This would indicate

• high validity.
• high reliability.
• excellent norming studies.
• culture fairness. - Correct Answerb. high reliability.

A counseling test consists of 300 forced response items. The person taking the test can take as long as he or she wants to answer the questions.

• This is most likely a projective measure.
• This is most likely a speed test.
• This is most likely a power test.
• This is most likely an invalid measure. - Correct Answerc. This is most likely a power

test.

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A counselor can utilize psychological tests to help secure a ________ diagnosis if third-party payments are necessary.

• CPT
• DSM or ICD
• percentile
• standard error - Correct Answerb. DSM or ICD

A counselor created an achievement test with a reliability coefficient of .82. The test is shortened since many clients felt it was too long. The counselor shortened the test but logically assumed that the reliability coefficient would now

• be approximately .88.
• remain at .82.
• be at least 10 points higher or lower.
• be lower than .82. - Correct Answerd. be lower than .82.

A counselor doing research decided to split a standardized test in half by using the even items as one test and the odd items as a second test and then correlating them. The counselor

• used an invalid procedure to test reliability.
• was testing reliability via the split-half correlation method.
• was testing reliability via the equivalent forms method.
• was testing reliability via the inter-rater method. - Correct Answerb. was testing

reliability via the split-half correlation method.

A counselor is told by his supervisor to measure the internal consistency reliability (i.e., homogeneity) of a test but not to divide the test in halves. The counselor would need to utilize

• the split-half method.
• the test-retest method.
• the Kuder-Richardson coefficients of equivalence.
• cross-validation. - Correct Answerd. cross-validation.

A counselor peruses a testing catalog in search of a test which will repeatedly give consistent results. The counselor

• is interested in reliability.
• is interested in validity.
• is looking for information which is not available.
• is magnifying an unimportant issue. - Correct Answera. is interested in reliability.

A counselor who fears the client has an organic, neurological, or motoric difficulty would most likely use the

• Bender Gestalt II.
• Rorschach.
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2.
• Thematic Apperception Test. - Correct Answera. Bender Gestalt II.
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A counselor who had an interest primarily in testing would most likely be a member of

• HS-BCP.
• AARC.
• NASW.
• ACES. - Correct Answerb. AARC.

A good practice for counselors is to

• always test the client yourself rather than referring the client for testing.
• never generalize on the basis of a single test score.
• stay away from culture-free tests.
• stay away from scoring the test yourself. - Correct Answerb. never generalize on the

basis of a single test score.

A job test which predicted future performance on a job very well would

• have high criterion/predictive validity.
• have excellent face validity.
• have excellent construct validity.
• not have incremental validity or synthetic validity. - Correct Answera. have high

criterion/predictive validity.

A new IQ test has a standard error of measurement (SEM) of 3. Tom scores 106 on the test. If he takes the test a lot, we can predict that about 68% of the time

• Tom will score between 100 and 103.
• Tom will score between 100 and 106.
• Tom will score between 103 and 109.
• Tom will score higher than Betty who scored 139. - Correct Answerc. Tom will score

between 103 and 109.

A new IQ test which yielded results nearly identical to other standardized measures would be said to have

• good concurrent validity.
• good face validity.
• superb internal consistency.
• all of the above. - Correct Answera. good concurrent validity.

A reliability coefficient of 1.00 indicates

• a lot of variance in the test.
• a score with a high level of error.
• a perfect score which has no error.
• a typical correlation on most psychological and counseling

tests. - Correct Answerc. a perfect score which has no error.

A reliable test is ________ valid.

• always
• 90%
• not always
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