Assessment techniques Flashcards
self report inventories can be used for what
A) to understand naturally occurring events
B) to develop a personality profile
C) to understand themes that emerge from implicit motives
D) to understand people’s tendencies to act in various situations
B) to develop a personality profile
To assess the cognitions and emotions that accompany a wide range of naturally-occurring events, the best cognitive assessment technique would be:
A) think-aloud protocols.
B) retrospective thought listing.
C) experience sampling.
D) reconstructive thought protocols.
C) experience sampling.
what technique would be used to over long period of observation and typically some unstructured interviews
A) experience sampling
B) case study
C) projective techniques
D) twin method
B) case study
what technique would be used to estimate the proportion of variance that is accounted for by inheritance
A) experience sampling
B) case study
C) adoption research
D) twin method
D) twin method
These techniques try to find out what a person is like from the person, but not by asking him or her directly
A) implicit assessment
B) explicit assessment
C) experience sampling.
D) interviewing
A) implicit assessment
what sort of techniques have been particularly important in the motive approach to personality
A) implicit assessment
B) explicit assessment
C) experience sampling.
D) interviewing
A) implicit assessment
in these techniques, people themselves indicate what they think they’re like or how they feel or act
A) implicit assessment
B) explicit assessment
C) self report
D) experience sampling.
C) self report
If a measure is of a physical reality that requires no interpretation, then it is
A) implicit
B) explicit
C) subjective
D) objective
D) objective
the basic characteristic of this approach to assessment is that it relies on data, rather than on theory, to decide what items go into the assessment device.
A) criterion keying
B) rational
C) theoretical
D) empirical
D) empirical
This technique can be applied to assess what kinds of activities people undertake, for how long, and in what patterns
A) cognitive assessment
B) behavioural assessment
C) social cognitive assessment
D) physiological assessment
B) behavioural assessment
what approach uses self-report devices, rather than behavioral observation
A) Conditioning-Based Approaches
B) Social–Cognitive Approaches
C) Cognitive approaches
D) Self actualisation approaches
B) Social–Cognitive Approaches
These procedures give a clearer idea of what
sorts of thoughts are coming to mind in various kinds of situations, typically situations that are problematic
A) self regulation techniques
B) behavioural techniques
C) self actualisation techniques
D) cognitive assessment techniques
D) cognitive assessment techniques
Trapnell and Campbell measure assessment to assess self-consciousness in self regulation
A) Unconscious Self-Examination Scale.
B) Rumination reflection questionnaire
C) Mindfulness Observation Survey.
D) Introspective Thought Assessment.
B) rumination reflection questionnaire
To a self theorist such as Rogers, assessment is a process of finding out
A) Determining a person’s future potential.
B) Classifying individuals into predefined categories.
C) Predicting specific behaviors in various situations.
D) What a person is like
D) what a person is like
Rogers’ orientation toward assessment is compatible with what assessment techniques
A) interviews
B) observation
C) implicit measurements
D) self report
A) interviews
this technique allows the person doing the assessment follow stray thoughts and ask questions that might not otherwise occur
A) interviews
B) observation
C) implicit measurements
D) self report
A) interviews
this technique allows the person doing the assessment get a subjective sense of what that person is like from interacting with him or her
A) interviews
B) observation
C) implicit measurements
D) self report
A) interviews
A technique Rogers preferred for assessing self-concept is called the
A) Fixed-category self-assessment.
B) Randomized self-reflection.
C) Non-structured self-exploration.
D) Q-sort
D) Q-sort
An assessment technique in which you sort descriptors according to how much they apply to you
A) Fixed-category self-assessment.
B) IAT
C) PSE
D) Q-sort
D) Q-sort
what is the Q-sort
A) A method for ranking external observations.
B) An assessment technique in which you sort descriptors according to how much they apply to you.
C) A self-report scale for personality traits.
D) An objective test of cognitive abilities.
B) An assessment technique in which you sort descriptors according to how much they apply to you.
Assessment of personality from the motive viewpoint is a matter of determining
A) specific behaviors exhibited by an individual
B) the levels of a person’s motive dispositions
C) the extent to which environmental factors influence personality
D) the individual’s cognitive schema and self-concept
B) the levels of a person’s motive dispositions
The assessment technique most associated with assessment of motive dispositions
A) Q-sort
B) IAT
C) Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
D) PSE
D) PSE
what is one way to evaluate and organize the information from extensive interview techniques
A) quantitative analysis
B) content analysis
C) Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
D)
B) content analysis
what is an inherent requirement when conducting interviews
A) Empathy
B) Conformity
C) Motivation
D) Adherence
A) Empathy
involves grouping the person’s statements in some way and seeing how many statements fall into each group
A) Quantitative analysis
B) Content analysis
C) Qualitative analysis
D) Structural analysis
B) content analysis
if an interviewer grouped susans interview as follows: Susan said 2 things about herself expressing self-approval, 18 expressing self-disapproval, and 15 that were ambivalent. what technique is the interviewer using
A) quantitative analysis
B) content analysis
C) overt observation
D) Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
B) content analysis
The grouping and counting of various categories of statements in an interview.
A) quantitative analysis
B) content analysis
C) overt observation
D)
B) content analysis
what is one requirement for an interview that reduces problems created by inability to compare one interview with another
A) Open-ended questions
B) Standardized procedures.
C) high-level engagement
D) Highly structured and predictable format.
D) Highly structured and predictable format.
What problem arises due to the flexibility of interviews
a) Inability to compare interviews
b) Lack of participant engagement
c) Excessive structure
d) Easy comparison between interviews
a) Inability to compare interviews
involves giving the person a large set of items printed on cards. The items often are self-evaluative statements and the person places the cards into piles
A) Q-sort
B) IAT
C) T-test
D) PSE
B) Q-sort
in this procedure, at one end are just a few cards with statements that are most like you, and at the other end are just a few cards with statements that are least like you
A) Q-sort
B) IAT
C) Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
D) PSE
A) Q-sort