PSYC 545 Quiz Validity

PSYC 545 Quiz: Validity

1. A psychologist wants to determine the criterion-related validity of an intelligence test by determining how well it predicts a student’s placement in a special class. If the psychologist used the intelligence test for both diagnosis and special class placement, that criterion would be said to be
2. Studies that indicate that Attention Deficit Disorder occurs in approximately 2% of the population. Here, 2% is the ________ for the disorder.
3. The first step in developing the CUWQ was
4. To further improve raters’ judgments of competency, Gonsalvez and Crowe (2014) recommended that
5. Rating errors
6. What type of validity evidence BEST sheds light on whether a college admissions test is valid for selecting students who will complete the program within 4 years?
7. According to the text, face validity may ultimately be more of an issue regarding ________ than
8. The validation of a test is a process
9. In the development of the CUWQ, the subjects in one of the preliminary studies were
10. In their call for future research on the validity of the CUWQ, the developers of this test suggested that studies be conducted using
11. Using a test that measures a low base rate trait
12. Evidence of the homogeneity of a test can be found in the
13. Which term is used to refer to the tendency of a rater to evaluate ratees higher than they objectively deserve because of the rater’s inability to discriminate between aspects of the ratee’s behavior?
14. Which of the following is TRUE of test bias as compared to test fairness?
15. A coefficient of correlation is calculated between Henry’s score on a test of sociopathy and a clinician’s rating of Henry on the variable of sociopathy. This coefficient of correlation might also be referred to as
16. Comedian Rodney Dangerfield was cited in the text to illustrate a point about how which of the following is viewed?
17. A team of consumer psychologists is interested in conducting research to test the palatability of Papa John’s Pizza (PJP). A PJP Palatability Test is developed on the basis of the opinions of a sample of death row prison inmates. These same inmates are then used to validate a paper-and-pencil “PJP Palatability Survey.” What error has been committed by the researchers?
18. Which is an example of a false positive?
19. A rater systematically assigns ratings in the middle range, thus avoiding extremely positive and negative ratings. Which type of error BEST characterizes this rater’s ratings?
20. Which statistic is appropriate for use to estimate the heterogeneity of a test composed of multiple-choice items?
21. An investigation of a test’s construct validity may yield evidence that
22. An expectancy chart is
23. In contrast to a trinitarian view of validity, a unitary view of validity takes into account
24. As the term is applied to a test, validity is a judgment or estimate of how well a test
25. In the development of the CUWQ, the test authors hypothesized that the tendency to worry ________ would be negatively related to one’s tendency to be punctual.