| A | B |
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| Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - WISC-IV | Provides 7 subtest scores and one full IQ score |
| Childhood Autism Rating Scale - CARS | Diagnoses the presence of autism, establishes the level of severity of autism, and implements a method of therapy |
| Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - CELF-4 | Diagnoses language and communication disorders for children |
| Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - WIAT-II | 4 sections: word reading, word comprehension, math, language |
| Developmental Reading Assessment - DRA2 | Measures reading engagement, oral reading fluency, and comprehension |
| Personality | A person's unique constellation of psychological traits and states |
| Personality trait | Any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another |
| Age 50-59 | Personality traits may start to decline |
| Personality types according to Hippocrates | melancholic, phlegmatic, choleric, and sanguine |
| Myers-Briggs Type indicator | Used for career counseling, not good reliability |
| Type A Personality | Anger in competition |
| Type B Personality | Less anger but may still be competitive |
| Personality state | A temporary disposition |
| Self-report | verbal or written report by self based on general questions |
| Self-concept | One's attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and related thoughts about oneself |
| Self-concept differentiation | Can perform differently according to role |
| Problem of the self-report | Can fake good or fake bad |
| Error of central tendency | Rate everyone towards the middle of the range |
| Halo effect | When some prior pleasant experience of the test giver with the client biases the results in a favorable manner |
| Cultural diversity biases | "Someone of this ethnic group cannot possibly answer these questions." |
| How to catch test-taker bias | Validity scales, lie scales, social desirability, locus of control |
| Validity scales | Assess how honestly the person responded |
| Lie scales | To catch if a person is lying |
| Social desirability | Test takers lie to look good |
| Internal locus of control | "It is my responsibility about how things affect me |
| External locus of control | Outside influences are responsible for how I am affected |
| Structured interview | Interviewer must typically follow an interview guide and must not deviate from it |
| Q-sort (testing items) | Rank order items from most descriptive to least descriptive |
| Adjective check list (testing items) | Check off those which apply to you |
| Sentence completion (testing items) | Complete open-ended sentences |
| Nomothetic approach | Learn how a limited number of personality traits are applied to all people |
| Idiographic | Efforts to find a person's unique combination of personality traits |
| The Big Five | Extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness |
| MMPI-2 | 10 scales that assess psychological disorders |
| Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale | The original IQ test |
| Adaptive testing | Asking a question in the middle of the sequence, avoiding the frustration of too many questions |
| Routing test | Given at the beginning to help find a particular level of questions |
| Floor | Lowest level of item on a test |
| Ceiling | Highest level of item on a test |
| Basal level | Level at which a person answers two consecutive questions |
| Ceiling level | When the client has failed a certain number of questions in a row |
| Testing the limits | Continuing to ask questions beyond to number missed to discontinue the test |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III (WAIS III) | Full scale IQ adds verbal IQ and performance IQ subscales |
| Schzophrenia | Cannot be measured with an IQ test |
| Executive functioning | Found in the pre-frontal cortex, the last to develop fully |
| IQ Score | Only used to determine mental retardation to get into special education |
| Army Alpha test | Given to recruits who could read |
| Army Beta | For those with poor English skills or illiterate |
| School (Group) IQ Test | Now called a school ability test |
| Objective Method | Cilent selects one response from a list of two or more. |
| Projective Method | Client provides own words/interpretation to structured or unstructured stimuli |
| House-Tree-Person | One of the top 10 tests used by child psychologists |
| Word Association | "What would you say if I said ___." |
| Sentence completion | "My greatest worry is when ___." |
| Id | All basic drives |
| Ego | Coordinates between Id and Superego, but basic function is to please the Id |
| Superego | Rules we live by, that we were taught |
| Rorschach Inkblot Test | 10 cards, tester notes verbal responses, nonverbal gestures, length of time |
| Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) | Person asked to make up a story about the card for about 5 minutes |
