AP Psychology Quiz 12A - Assessment & Individual Differences (15 Questions)

The following is a quiz with Assessment & Individual Differences based questions. Take this quiz as often as you would like. You goal for this exam should be 60% or higher.

1 Norms allow

	confidence in reliability and validity of the test questions
	a student's score to be compared with a reference group
	an intelligence score to be computed by diving mental age by chronological age
	assessment and classification into "gifted" and "mentally retarded"
	reduced cultural bias

2 A norm-referenced test is best described as which of the following?

	A test which compares an individual's performance to the performance of a given population
	An evaluation of the person's knowledge of a particular subject
	Standards-based assessment
	An examination with a pre-identified score as passing or failing
	A test identified as valid and reliable

3 Carla takes a personality test and obtains a particular score. A week later, she takes the same personality test and obtains a different score. This test demonstrates

	the experimenter expectancy effect
	low reliability
	the power of demand characteristics
	low internal validity
	poor item discrimination

4 If a student takes a IQ test three times, and obtains a noticeably different IQ score each time he takes the test, the test has poor

	reliability
	validity
	normative value
	standardization
	generalization

5 Which of the following is considered an objective test?

	Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
	Thematic Apperception Test
	Rorschach Inkblot test
	Mary Ainsworth's 'Strange Situation' paradigm
	House-Tree-Person Drawing

6 Which of the following is NOT an ethical issue in testing?

	Using a test to compare students
	Impact of tests on society
	Confidentiality
	Method of reporting test results
	The validity and reliability of test questions

7 When females take examinations with males, their scores are noticeably lower than when in a completely female group. This is an example of which of the following?

	Stereotype threat
	Achievement gap
	Priming
	Testing sensitivity
	Poor intergroup reliability

8 Identify the three intelligences as proposed by Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence.

	Emotional, practical, spatial
	Existential, fluid, crystallized
	Logical, creative, emotional
	Spatial, musical, existential
	Analytical, creative, practical

9 Artificial intelligence is

	an IQ test designed to compare human and computer intelligence
	an algorithm humans use to solve complex puzzles
	a science aimed at developing computers to be “intelligent” and mimic human thought processes
	the study of different types of human intelligence
	a science aimed at studying heuristics via computer programming languages

10 Which of the following areas of the brain become activated when people are answering both verbal and spatial intelligence questions?

	Hypothalamus
	Lateral prefrontal cortex
	Limbic system
	Broca's area
	Temporal cortex

11 According to the Stanford-Benefit IQ quotient, a child who has a mental age of 8 at age 6 would have an IQ of

	75
	86
	114
	133
	140

12 A psychologist develops a test measuring emotional intelligence. He draws a random sample from a high school. He administers the test on two separate occasions and obtains radically different results.

The test described above does not have high

	split half reliability
	content validity
	preditive validity
	test-retest reliability
	inter-rater reliability

13 A person possesses severely limited mental ability but exhibits a unique and extraordinary talent on the piano. This occurrence is referred to as

	phi phenomenon
	autism
	mild mental retardation
	savant syndrome
	selective attention

14 When one portion of a test is compared to another portion of a test, in order to ensure that all the questions are measuring what they are trying to in fact measure, this is referred to as

	convergent validity
	divergent validity
	split half reliability
	equivalency reliability
	relative reliability

15 A test that accurately measures depression in African Americans fails to accurately measure depression in Hispanic individuals.

	reliable
	statistically accurate
	normal
	valid
	correlated

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