Threats to Psychometric Quality: Response Biases & Test Bias Flashcards
Consistently endorsing or rejecting items without much regard for content is called…
A. extremity
B. social desirability (“faking good”)
C. acquiescence
D. malingering (“faking bad”)
C. acquiescence
Consistently overusing or underusing “extreme” response options is called…
A. social desirability (“faking good”)
B. malingering (“faking bad”)
C. guessing
D. extremity
D. extremity
Responding in a way that exaggerates one’s positive qualities and minimizes one’s negative qualities is the definition of…
A. malingering (“faking bad”)
B. guessing
C. social desirability (“faking good”)
D. acquiescence
C. social Desirability aka “faking good”
this is a tendency to respond in a way that seems socially appealing, regardless of true characteristics
The process of exaggerating one’s problems or disability is referred to as…
A. random/careless responding
B. malingering (“faking bad”)
C. guessing
D. extremity
B. malingering (“faking bad”)
Guessing at the correct answer to an item is the definition of
A. guessing
B. random/careless responding
C. extremity
A. guessing
(obvious right?)
Responding randomly with little attention to content of items is called…
A. social desirability (“faking good”)
B. malingering (“faking bad”)
C. guessing
D. random/careless responding
D. random/careless responding
What are the 3 sources of social desirability response bias?
Tests content, testing context, personality of respondents
“Personality of respondents” is…
that some people are more likely to provide socially desirable responses than others
Which are the following are the two types of social desirability bias (“faking good”)?
A. impression management
B. self deception
C. straight-lining
A. impression management
B. self deception
T/F self deception is unconscious, trait-like, and noncontextual…
True!
On the other hand, impression management is the opposite….intentional, state-like, and contextual
When an individuals provides the same answer to a serious of questions, it is called…
“straight-lining”, also known as careless/random responding
- the individual may also “cycle through” the response scale
T/F: an individual may engage in careless/random responding due to fatigue, apathy, coercion, and anonymity
True
Which of the following is a method/strategy for coping with response bias?
A. managing testing context
B. manage test content/scoring
C. specialized tests
D. idk
A, B, and C
T/F: using more neutral items is a way to reduce response bias
True
- example, “i am sometimes less friendly than other people” VS “i am a hostile person”
When people of similar abilities perform differently on a given assessment or test item because of age, gender, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, or other group differences is defined as…
A. construct bias
B. predictive bias
C. item bias
C. item bias
- in this case, people with equal abilities should be able to attain the same score
