1. When answering a referral question, the psychologist and the psychometrician usually employ ____.

A. Psychometrics c. Psychological assessment

B. Psychological testing d. Psychological observation

2. Sometimes, experimenters only find what they expect to find in their research. This bias is called the
_____.
A. Rosenthal effect c. Response style.
B. Demand characteristics. D. Hindsight bias.

3. Your friend who is applying for a certain managerial position was asking if you could administer or
give her a copy of the cfit so she can practice, and so perfect the test when the company will administer it
to her. Which of the following is the best response to this request?
A. “i can’t. If i give it to you, it will influence the reliability of your test results.”
B. “i can’t. Cfit must be administered only by a trained psychologist or psychometrician.”
C. “i can’t. The cfit scale is an outdated scale and thus it is against ethical principles to administer it.”
D. “i can’t. Only those licensed by the publisher of cfit can administer it.”
4. Who conceptualized intelligence as being crystallized (all past or learned intelligence) and fluid (a raw
mental horsepower)?
A. R. B. Cattell c. Robert sternberg
B. J.m. Cattell d. J.p. Guilford

5. Your supervising psychologist tells you that he wants to assess whether client h’s answers to an attitude
test you administered has stability throughout the sessions. Your supervising psychologist is most likely
interested in:
A. Alternate forms reliability c. Test-retest reliability
B. Validity d. Internal consistency

6. Which of the following tests would be appropriate to administer to a twelve-year-old boy?

A. Wppsi c. Wais
B. Wisc d. Wpm
7. Psychometricians can administer up to which level of tests?
A. Level a c. Level c
B. Level b d. Level d

9. Jelay appears to be depressed. The results of a battery of tests that measure depression reveal that she
met the criteria for a major depressive episode. Based on the decision theory, this is considered a ___.
A. Hit c. False negative
B. True negative d. True positive

10. An eleven-year-old lumad was referred to a clinical psychologist because he was suspected of having
a genius’ iq. Which of the following tests is most appropriate to use as part of the battery in order to
minimize cultural bias?
A. Wppsi c. Mmpi
B. Binet-simon d. Rpm

11. Respondents would most likely answer a test to the best of their abilities if the test appears to be
related to the construct being measured. This is the test’s
A. Concurrent validity c. Content validity
B. Convergent validity d. Face validity
12. This is the kind of test that measures a person’s potential for learning or acquiring a specific skill.
A. Aptitude test c. Intelligence test
B. Achievement test d. Interest test

13. _____ measures capacity to solve problems, adapt to changing circumstances, and profit from
experience.
A. Aptitude test c. Intelligence test
B. Achievement test d. Interest test

14. The first major general intelligence test was the _____.
A. Culture fair intelligence test c. Wechsler adult intelligence scale
B. Army alpha/army beta intelligence test d. Binet-simon scale

15. The acceptable reliability value is _____.

A. 0.5 c. 0.7
B. 0.6 d. 0.8

16. You were tasked by the guidance office of an elementary school to conduct psychological testing on
an eleven-year-old girl. From whom must you acquire an informed consent?
A. The little girl herself c. The guidance office
B. The little girl’s parents d. The elementary school principal

17. This refers to the process of using tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral observation, and specially
designed apparatuses and measurement procedures for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation.
A. Psychological assessment c. Psychological statistics
B. Psychological testing d. Psychometrics

18. When is it appropriate to use the spearman rho correlation coefficient?

A. When dealing with nominal data c. When dealing with parametric data
B. When dealing with normal data d. When dealing with ordinal data

19. A person who is uncooperative, proud, calloused, and finds it hard to be trusting will most likely have
which big five personality score?
A. Low in conscientiousness c. Low in agreeableness
B. High in extraversion d. High in neuroticism

20. A psychologist teaching at a certain university gave a psychometrician one copy of a testing manual
and asked him to photocopy it. Is this an ethical issue or not?
A. Yes, because test materials are in no circumstances to be photocopied.
B. Yes, because only the psychologist, not the psychometrician, can make copies of the testing manual.
C. No, because the manual may be photocopied for educational purposes.
D. No, because it is not stipulated in the code of ethics.
21. In most businesses and organizations, employees must be ranked according to performance in order to
identify those who qualify for promotion. This ranking can be classified as a _ scale.
A. Nominal c. Interval
B. Ordinal d. Ratio
22. Choosing participants for a study in such a way that all of them have equal chances of being chosen is
called
A. Random sampling c. Convenience sampling
B. Random assignment d. Purposive sampling
23. This is an objective personality test based on murray’s theory, suggesting that people has several
needs that can be measured.
A. Neo-pi c. Pmt
B. Bnas d. Epps
24. Which statistical tool must be used when we want to determine if there is a difference between the
scores of groups a and b after one group had been subjected to a treatment condition?
A. T-test c. Q-test
B. F-test d. L-test
26. Which of the following is a level of measurement classified as ‘ratio’?
A. Iq c. Celsius
B. Fahrenheit d. Kelvin
27. A non-government organization wanted to administer the draw-a-person test to the children in their
care. However, they do not have a resident psychologist so they asked their psychometrician to administer
it instead. What is the best thing for the psychometrician to do?
A. Administer the test immediately because it was a direct order from the overseeing body.
B. Administer it later, after the psychometrician has thoroughly studied the material.
C. Do not administer it for the reason that the draw-a-person test is not appropriate to administer to
children.
D. Do not administer it because psychometricians are not qualified to administer projective tests.
28. When data gathered contain minimal errors, the mean, median and mode have the same or similar
values. The curve will most likely be a _____.
A. Bell curve c. Leptokurtic curve d. Normal
B. Platykurtic curve d. Colinear curve

29. How much of the scores in a normal distribution will fall from -1 to +1 standard deviation?
A. 13% c. 68%
B. 34% d. 95%
30. Rhoie scored on the 79th percentile in an intelligence test. This would suggest that
A. Rhoie scored 79% correct on all items in the test
B. Rhoie scored highly on the exam
C. Rhoie is the 79th person who scored the highest score
D. Rhoie’s score is better than 79% of the takers
31. Which standardized score has a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10?
A. Z-score c. Stanine
B. T-score d. Sten
32. Which of the five factors of the ocean measures imagination, fantasy, aesthetics and ideas?
A. Openness to experience c. Extraversion
B. Conscientiousness d. Agreeableness
33. In order to make a good diagnosis or a good answer to a referral question, one must make use of
A. A psychologically sound test c. A test supported by literature
B. A battery of tests d. Projective tests
34. In an experiment where critical value is –2.00, the calculated value was –1.99. What must be the
decision in this case?
A. Fail to reject the null hypothesis c. Re-evaluate. There’s something wrong with the calculation
B. Reject the null hypothesis d. Hire a new statistician
35. My score on abpsych and top in the board exam are 84 (m=65, sd=16) and 89 (m=74, sd=15)
respectively. With this, we can say that
A. There is a small difference, but i performed better in top than in abpsych
B. There is a small difference, but i performed better in abpsych than in top
C. There is a small difference, and so i performed equally well on both subjects
D. There is a small difference, so it doesn’t matter as long as i passed the board
36. The degree to which findings from one test may be applicable to another situation is called the test’s
A. Utility c. Generalizability
B. Reliability d. Concurrent validity
37. During a counseling session, emman told his therapist, “don’t tell anyone: i’m thinking of killing the
guy my wife is having an affair with.” After the session, his therapist called the local authorities about
emman’s plot. What unethical behavior did the therapist do?
A. He breached client confidentiality and informed unconcerned parties about emman’s threat.
B. The therapist did not inform the client of his informing the authorities, which is against the
professional ethical standard.
C. Informing authorities was not stipulated in the informed consent signed before the sessions started.
D. Nothing. When danger is imminent, the therapist has a duty to inform proper authorities.
38. Students of a certain program randomly handed out a teacher popularity survey to the people who
enter the library. This research method is called
A. Random sampling c. Convenience sampling
B. Stratified random sampling d. Purposive sampling

39. After the exam, you were feeling distressed because although your teacher said the coverage would be
chapters 2-5, all the questions were taken from chapter 7. With this in mind, you are starting to question
the test’s
A. Content validity c. Construct validity
B. Criterion validity d. Face validity

40. The essential elements of a true experiment are:

A. Manipulation of independent variables and randomization
B. Random selection and random assignment
C. Control of extraneous variables and random selection
D. Pre-test, treatment, and post-test
41. When the variability of a group of data is high, you would expect that the graph would be
A. Normal c. Skewed
B. Platykurtic d. Leptokurtic
42. These kinds of tests compare a person’s skill level to a standard instead of other people of the same
age or class.
A. Norm-referenced tests
B. Construct-referenced tests
C. Criterion-referenced tests
D. Standard-referenced tests
43. Dayanara wants to determine whether the new scale she developed on the filipino “tagasalo
syndrome” really does measure the behaviors associated with a ‘tagasalo’. Dayanara is most likely trying
to establish:
A. Construct validity c. Content validity
B. Criterion validity d. Face validity
44. Tests like epq and neo-pi made use of this statistical tool to identify multiple facets of personality
A. Chi square c. Ancova
B. F test d. Factor analysis
45. This is a test that aims to distinguish normal from abnormal groups. With 567 items, this test was
designed to aid in the diagnosis or assessment of the major psychiatric or psychological disorders.
A. Woodworth c. Mmpi
B. Cpi d. Bdi
46. A major difference between interval and ratio scales is that interval scales do not have
A. Magnitude c. Absolute zero
B. Equal intervals d. Direction
47. The court decided for roy, who has a case of murder, to undergo psychological assessment from the
provincial psychologist. In this case, is it necessary to have roy sign an informed consent?
A. Yes, because the informed consent is always needed when administering psychological assessment.
B. No, because the court mandated it
C. Yes, because it is the client’s right to be given and to sign an informed consent.
D. No, because his case is murder which strips him off his rights as a client.
48. An hr manager wants to hire persons who will most likely be compatible with the rest of his staff.
This means that the new employee must be a team player, patient, with keen attention to details. What
kind of test should he administer to get this information?
A. Achievement test c. Projective test
B. Personality test d. Interest test
49. This is the most widely used measure of variability that refers to how close or far away the scores are
from the mean.
A. Mean c. Mode
B. Range d. Standard deviation
50. In which of the following situations is it most appropriate to administer an individual test?
A. A teacher wants to find out how much of what he taught his students learned
B. A pediatrician will assess the newly-born babies’ responses to specific stimuli
C. A guidance counselor is tasked to identify senior high school students’ career interests
D. An hr staff is tasked to identify through an achievement test those eligible for promotion
51. This projective test is based on the hypothesis that people’s responses to ambiguous pictures will help
reveal a person’s dominant needs and presses.
A. Tat c. Htp
B. Rorschach d. Pmt

52. While answering the mmpi-2, mina answered ‘yes’ to items that would put her in a less favorable
light. This is a response style called
A. Faking good c. Acquiescence
B. Faking bad d. Unfavorable style

53. _ is the most appropriate to use when dealing with nominal data.
A. Spearman rho c. Pearson r
B. Chi-square d. Anova

54. Choi has always been a problem child both at school and at home. Thus, the disciplinary committee
decided to have him see the school psychologist for assessment on his problem behavior. Should the
school psychologist tell choi of the nature and purpose of the assessment?
A. No, because he might fake the tests to be administered.
B. No, because the client is not choi but the disciplinary committee.
C. Yes, because it is the psychologist’s duty.
D. Yes, because choi has the right to knowing the purpose and nature of the test.
55. Consider the following scores and their corresponding z-scores: reading – 24, z=1.02; math – 42, z=
1.02. What can we conclude from this presented information?
A. The performance in relation to the norm is the same.
B. Though the score on math is higher, the performance in reading in relation to the norm is higher.
C. Though the score on reading is lower, the performance in math in relation to the norm is higher.
D. Though the z-scores are the same, the difference in raw scores call for a calculation of the t-score.
56. One danger of having a pretest is that it may have an effect on the posttest and influence the score of
participants. In general, this is called the
A. Testtakers bias c. Carryover effect
B. Demand characteristics d. Central tendency error

57. The term “structured” in structured intelligence or personality test means that
A. The tests are scored objectively
B. The tests have a standard way of administration
C. The tests are based on norm-referenced data
D. The tests are based on criterion-referenced data
58. This is a test using similar principles as the mmpi but is used as a career assessment tool in counseling
settings.
A. Bender c. Mmpi-2
B. Epq d. Cpi

59. Vanessa found out that one of her close psychometrician friends made a mistake when he made a
psychological report. What must vanessa do first?

60. We want to calculate the reliability of a new test. We divided the test into two halves that have
different variances. Which statistical tool is most appropriate to use?
A. Spearman-brown coefficient c. Pearson r
B. Coefficient alpha d. Kr20

61. This is the term used to refer to the data of a particular group of test-takers that are designed for use as
a reference when evaluating or interpreting individual test scores.
A. Criterion c. Reference
B. Norm d. Base group

62. When we want to know how a student’s college entrance exam test score will predict the chances of
success in a particular program, we are actually asking about the test’s
A. Content validity c. Discriminant validity
B. Concurrent validity d. Predictive validity
63. When talking about the relationship between validity and reliability, all statements are true except
A. A test can be valid but not reliable c. A test can be reliable but not valid.
B. A test cannot be valid but not reliable. D. A test can both be reliable
and valid

64. A valid test is:

A. Always reliable c. Reliable, but conditional to testing factors
B. Sometimes reliable d. Reliable only 50% of the time

65. When writing items for a test, the following are some guidelines to be followed except one. Which is
it?
A. Generate an item pool c. Consider mixing positively and
negatively worded items
B. Avoid “doubly-barreled” items d. Avoid short items

66. Your boss was consulting with another psychologist about a certain case. Although neither the name
nor any identifiable descriptions were disclosed, they were discussing the details of the client’s diagnosis.
What must you do, as psychometrician?
A. Contact the authorities and inform them of the unethical behavior of your boss and his associate.
B. Nothing. No ethical principle was breached.
C. Secretly inform the client that the psychologist has been consulting with another about the case.
D. Confront your boss and his associate in order to clear the issue.
67. The number of people who get a particular test item correct will define its
A. Item variability c. Item discriminability
B. Item difficulty d. Item analysis

68. Jes scored better than 89 people out of 100 in their midterm exams. Thus, we can say that jes belongs
to the _ percentile.
A. 11th c. 89th
B. 88th d. 90th

69. A counselor who administered the cfit to a young boy was being asked by the boy’s parents to give
them a copy of the results. What is the best thing to do in this situation?
A. Give it to them. Because the parent is a higher level of authority than the child’s teachers.
B. Do not give it to them. They will not be able to understand the language and technicality of the
psychological report.
C. Give it to them. Because the client is a minor, they have the authority to receive the results in lieu of
their child.
D. Do not give it to them. Only the child or the requesting client can know of the test results, and neither
can have the raw scores of the client.
70. Which of the following is not an advantage of group tests?
A. Objective scoring and typically more reliable c. Can give information beyond test scores
B. Requires less examiner skill d. Broader application than individual tests

71. When correcting for the reliability of a test that has been split in half, with both halves having equal
variances, which statistical tool is used?
A. Spearman-brown coefficient c. Pearson r
B. Coefficient alpha d. Kr20
72. This is the most widely used career interest test that matches the interests of male and female test
takers with those of people satisfied with their career choices.
A. Kuder occupational interest survey c. Strong interest inventory
B. Career assessment inventory d. Self-directed search
73. Sometimes, tests measure constructs other than those that are of interest to the researcher. This ‘other’
construct will become a source of _____.
A. Confounding variable c. Construct underrepresentation
B. Construct-irrelevant variance d. Construct discrepancy

74. A philosophy teacher asked some senior psychology majors to administer a projective test for children
to some clients of the psychotrauma clinic. He promised they would be closely supervised by their
clinical psychologist. Is there an ethical issue in this situation?
A. No, because there is supervision by a trained professional.
B. No, but the students need to be trained to administer the test first.
C. Yes, because only a qualified person may administer these kinds of tests to the client
D. Yes, but only on the part of the philosophy teacher who is overstepping the boundaries of his authority.
75. There are research wherein deceiving the participants is necessary in order to arrive at the desired
result. Is this wrong?
A. Yes, because participants have the right to know about the purpose of the research.
B. No, but there needs to be debriefing and de-hoaxing at the end of the study
C. Yes, because the professional relationship in research is built on trust.
D. No, because this is part of the experimental method.
76. Stanley milgram’s famous obedience experiments tell us that a good person can do bad things when
under the influence of a powerful authority. His experiments have been conducted many times, using
many variations, in different contexts, and trying different variables. This replication is to establish:
A. Construct validity c. Internal validity
B. Statistical validity d. External validity

77. A broken watch that no longer works reads 12:02 at all times. In terms of reliability and validity, we
can say that the watch is
A. Reliable but not valid c. Not reliable and not valid
B. Valid but not reliable d. Both valid and reliable

78. Ming’s score in a certain achievement test with a mean of 50 is 78. If the standard deviation is 13,
calculate the z-score.
A. 1.17 c. -1.17
B. 2.15 d. -2.15

79. One important characteristic of a test is that it must have item discriminability. Which statement
accurately describes item discriminability?
A. The ability of an item to discriminate between social and racial groups
B. The ability of an item to accurately identify possible respondents during pilot testing
C. The ability of an item to separate difficult and easy items
D. The ability of an item to differentiate between low and high scorers of a certain construct
80. Which of the following is not one of holland’s six personality types as reflected in most interest
inventories?
A. Sociable c. Investigative
B. Realistic d. Artistic
81. A preschool teacher consulted a psychologist about identifying the individual intelligences of her 5-
year-old students so as to tailor her teaching style to their needs. Which wechsler scale would the
psychologist most likely use in the battery?
A. Wppsi c. Wais
B. Wisc d. Wms

82. Standardized procedures of test administration need to be followed because

A. It is stipulated in the code of ethics that standardized procedures of administration must be followed.
B. The client(s) may find it hard to finish or understand the test if one deviates from the standardized
procedures.
C. It makes the test-administrator’s job easier.
D. A variety of extraneous variables will influence test results if administration is not standardized
83. Before the testing, dr. Frost tried to make the client comfortable, talking about nontest-related topics.
This is called
A. Counselor empathy c. Establishing rapport
B. Briefing d. Introductory interview

84. Naj, a badjao from the zamboanga regions, was given a battery of both verbal and nonverbal tests. He
had below average scores for all verbal tests and a little above average for all nonverbal tests. Which
would most likely explain this discrepancy?
A. The verbal tests were not appropriate to use for indigenous folk
B. The tests were not psychometrically sound
C. The verbal test questions were too difficult
D. Naj was faking bad
85. Which of the following tests use an ipsative test format?
A. Mmpi c. Kois
B. Connor’s d. Rpm

86. The psychometrician administered a proficiency test for a group of high school students at the end of
the year. While discussing among themselves, the students found out that some students answered
different questions from them. They asked the psychometrician about it, and she assured them that the
two tests were the same. Is there a valid reason to question the psychometrician?
A. Yes, because a group of students should take the same test to reduce bias.
B. Yes, because the psychometrician cannot provide different test to a group of students, especially when
measuring proficiency.
C. No, because the psychometrician has the freedom to choose the tests in the battery she will administer.
D. No, because it is likely she used parallel forms of the same test
87. Which of the following is true of ipsative format tests?
A. There is more flexibility in generating items for tests using ipsative scores.
B. Ipsative measures are most often reliable, but the validity of the measures are difficult to establish.
C. The results of ipsative format tests are easy to validate.
D. The responses of person a taking the test and person b taking the test cannot
Be compared
88. What are the two key features of projective techniques?
A. Ambiguous stimuli and semi-subjective scoring
B. Ambiguous stimuli and constructed-response format
C. Ambiguous stimuli and rich theoretical background
D. Ambiguous stimuli and minimal administrator instruction
89. In most true-false format tests, test takers have a tendency to respond “true” to most positively-
sounding items. This is called a ____ response style.
A. Blind agreement c. Faking good
B. Acquiescence d. Impression management

90. You discovered that a colleague who is also a psychometrician was using the tat to assess her friends
for fun. What should you do in this situation?
A. Confront her and warn her from using the tat in such a way again.
B. There was no harm done so let it be for now. But contact the authorities if she does it again.
C. Help her interpret the tat because the scoring is complicated.
D. Ask her if this is a job-related task and then take appropriate actions.

91. Individually-administered intelligence tests and projective tests are which level of tests?
A. Level a c. Level c
B. Level b d. Level d

92. During the final stages of a test-construction, the calculated correlation of your new test to the
stanford-binet test was +1.01. What does this imply?
A. Your test correlates highly with the stanford-binet
B. Your test measures the same thing as does stanford-binet
C. The test may become an alternative to the stanford-binet
D. Hire a new statistician
93. The blepp exam is a(n) _____ type of test.
A. Achievement c. Intelligence
B. Aptitude d. Interest

94. Inkblot tests, sentence completion tests, and thematic apperception tests are all ____ types of tests.
A. Objective c. Normative
B. Subjective d. Criterion

95. Harvey took an ipsative format test. Which of the following can the psychometrician not do while
creating harvey’s psychological report?
A. Use harvey’s test results in combination with the other tests in the assessment battery
B. Plot the progression of harvey’s test results across time
C. Compare harvey’s test results to those of his classmates to see where his abilities are relative to the
norm
D. Compare harvey’s test results to his results in another test that measures the same construct
96. Lisa took a test and noticed that the questions became increasingly difficult as the test went on. There
was no time limit, but it was intense pressure to be able to answer the more advanced questions. Lisa is
most likely taking which type of test?
A. Ipsative c. Speed
B. Timed d. Power

97. Which type of test should the psychometrician of an hr department suggest if the company is looking
for a group of individuals who can finish transcribing an interview audio recording with the least number
of mistakes?
A. A power test c. A personality test
B. A speed test d. A behavioral interview

98. Which of the following is not an empirical way of measuring validity?

A. Correlating results with results from more established tests
B. Consulting with smes
C. Conducting goodness-of-fit tests
D. Administering the scale to a criterion and comparison group, then comparing their results
99. The wechsler test most appropriate for older adults is the:
A. Wms c. Wisc
B. Wppsi d. Wais

100. Many psychological tests present norms as t-scores because most test users are familiar with them. It
is therefore good to know that t-scores have a mean of __ and a standard deviation of __.
A. M=50, sd=10 c. M=5, sd=2
B. M=0, sd=1 d. M=5.5, sd=2