In a study of examiner reinforcement on test takers, under which condition did children score the lowest?
a. Examiners made approving comments.
b. Examiners made disapproving comments.
c. Examiners made neutral comments.
d. Examiners made no comments.
Which of the following scales has the properties of magnitude, absolute zero, and equal intervals?
a. Ordinal
b. Interval
c. Nominal
d. Ratio
The school board decided to send professional test administrators into the schools in an attempt to establish stricter standardization procedures for the administration of IQ tests. If you are from a socio-economically disadvantaged area, you can expect that the test scores for your school district will
a. benefit greatly from the use of outside examiners.
b. be equal to the scores received by students in upper socio-economic groups.
c. be more negatively impacted by the use of unfamiliar examiners than for wealthier districts.
d. be more positively impacted by the use of unfamiliar examiners than for wealthier districts.
Scales of measurement differ from one another in terms of
a. magnitude, absolute measurement, and equal intervals.
b. magnitude, relative zero, and equal intervals.
c. numbers, relative zero, and equal intervals.
d. magnitude, absolute zero, and equal intervals.
Research on the effects of examiners' expectations upon test scores have shown that
a. examiners' expectations influence scores only when rapport has developed.
b. examiners' expectations have little effect upon test scores.
c. there is inconsistency with regard to the effect of examiners' expectations.
d. too few studies have been done to draw any conclusions.
Trial by judge and jury is to criminal investigation and prosecution as confirmatory data analysis is to
a. theoretical assumptions.
b. reliability and validity.
c. underlying constructs.
d. exploratory data analysis.
Rosenthal asserted that expectancy effects are likely to result from subtle uses of
a. reinforcement.
b. nonverbal communication.
c. disapproving comments.
d. gender and racial bias.
Which of the following evaluates data against rigid statistical rules?
a. Confirmatory data analysis
b. Tests of statistical significance
c. Factor analysis
d. Psychometrics
The Rosenthal effect occurs when
a. race of the tester produces a bias.
b. the administrators' expectations influence the respondents' scores.
c. test-takers do poorly because they are fatigued.
d. the gender of the test administrator is different than that of the examinee.
Statistical procedures that allow one to make inferences about large groups by examining a smaller sample are called
a. populations.
b. descriptive statistics.
c. inferential statistics.
d. ratios.
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