Copy the ten essay questions, then write-up your answers to six of the ten presented essay questions in Word.
Answer 6 of the 10 Presented Short-Answer Essay Questions:
Please answer all components for 6 of the following 10 questions. Please limit your responses to one-half page in length. Feel free to use outlines, bullet-points, and diagrams in your response.
Name and describe the tools of Psychological Assessment.
A number of people are cited in the textbook as being influential in the development of modern-day psychological testing and assessment. Who would you nominate as the most influential, and why?
Name and briefly describe five different types of settings for Psychological Assessments.
Define the term correlation. Define what causation means. Give an example that illustrates both, noting the difference between correlation and causation.
You decide to help your Homeowners Association by volunteering to gather and summarize basic information about your neighborhood residents. As you summarize average or mean annual family income, you realize that old Mr. Thurstone earns $700,000 more per year than the average $ 100,000 annual income for the other 29 households in your neighborhood. How will Mr. Thurstone’s income affect the mean, median, and mode for your neighborhood’s annual family income? What would a graph of such data look like?
Briefly explain Item Response Theory (IRT), being sure to include the related issues of Difficulty and Discrimination.
Define and provide an example of a Norm-referenced Test. Define and provide an example of a Criterion-referenced Test.
Johnny’s parents received his test results from his Psychologist. They note that he earned a Full-Scale IQ score of 110 with a confidence interval of 104 to 116. What does the Confidence Interval mean?
Name and define four sources of Error Variance in Measurement.
Name and briefly describe five sources of Evidence for Construct Validity.
