Chapter 7: Test Administration Flashcards
- What role does the relationship between examiner and test taker play?
The better your relationship, the better you score
- What is the relationship between test examiner race and intelligence scores?
If it highly standardized, the effects are minimal
If there are untrained individuals administering, the more effect it has on scores
- Why would examiner race effects be smaller on IQ tests than on other psychological tests?
Highly standardized and administered by trained psychologists
- What is the standard for test takers who are fluent in two languages?
Administer in their best language but ensure the test in the new language is valid and reliable
- Define expectancy effects and know whose name is associated with these effects
- Rosenthal effects
- An examiner has certain expectations for the outcome of a test and it introduces bias to the scores
- A review of many studies showed that expectancy effects exist in ________ situations
Some but not all
- What types of situations might require the examiner to deviate from standardized testing procedures
For special populations such as the blind, deaf, etc.
- What advantages and disadvantages were mentioned in lecture and the text regarding computer administered tests?
- Adv: More standardized, more likely to be honest to a machine, reduces/eliminates bias, own pace, one-to-one interaction, immediate feedback
- Disadv: Computer generated reports have limitations, no clinical judgment
- What subject variables can impact testing?
Non-intellective factors that are not manipulated as part of the research (ex: sleep, illness, hunger, previous experience)
- What are the three major problems in behavioral observation studies?
- Reactivity, drift, expectancy effects
- What is reactivity? How does performance change when people are not being observed or checked?
Observers will be more strict with themselves when they know they are being observed
- What is drift? How does it relate to the contrast effect? How can drift be addressed?
- drift: the more you observe behavior, the more your ideas about the observed behavior will change
- contrast effect: the more you see behavior, the less it will stand out to you
- What are experimenter expectancies? How do they introduce bias?
- Test administrator’s expectations influence the test result in based on what they expect to find
- Grading tests based on perceptions, giving more attention, etc.
- How well do people do in detecting deception/lies?
- Often we are worse than chance
- Lie detector tests detect about 1% of variance
- What is the Halo Effect? Be able to think of examples where the Halo Effect applies.
Attributing positive attributes to an individual for reasons other than the trait
ex: thinking someone is kind because they are attractive
