An examinee's score pattern on the __________ may be expressed in terms of its similarity to 36
or so occupational ability patterns (OAPs).
A) Guilford-Zimmerman Aptitude Survey
B) Differential Aptitude Tests
C) Multiple Aptitude Tests
D) General Aptitude Test Battery
Which of the following conditions must be met in order for differences among an individual's
scores on various tests comprising an aptitude battery to be interpretable?
A) The reliabilities of the difference scores must be high.
B) The score profile must be as flat as possible.
C) The percentile bands representing scores on various tests must show some overlap.
D) The correlations among the tests must be high.
A small standard error of the difference between scores on two subtests of a multiple aptitude
battery would imply that
A) the reliabilities of the subtests are small.
B) significant differences between subtest scores are more likely to be detected.
C) the two subtests have a high correlation with each other.
D) a larger difference between subtest scores is necessary to be significant.
The tests that make up an aptitude test battery should
A) have low correlations with each other.
B) have high correlations with each other.
C) have high correlations with composite scores on the battery as a whole.
D) consist of items having low correlations with each other.
On a multiple aptitude battery, correlations among the items comprising a particular subtest
should be __________, and the correlations among subtests should be __________.
A) high, high B) high, low C) low, high D) low, low
Multiple aptitude batteries have proven most useful in
A) vocational counseling and screening.
B) personnel selection and classification.
C) personnel selection and screening.
D) vocational counseling and classification.
In order to be most useful for purposes of differential prediction, the correlations among the
various subtests comprising an aptitude test battery should be
A) as close as possible to zero. B) as highly negative as possible.
C) as highly positive as possible. D) around .50 on the average.
A group of tests used to predict a person's ability to benefit from special training in various
fields of work is known as a(n)
A) performance test of specific abilities. B) vocational interest test.
C) achievement test battery. D) aptitude test battery.
On which of the following tests is the examinee directed to listen to a series of musical tones and
discriminate between them in terms of pitch, loudness, and time, to make judgments concerning
their timbre and rhythm, and to remember tones?
A) Wing Standardized Tests of Musical Intelligence
B) Seashore Measures of Musical Talents
C) Drake Musical Aptitude Test
D) Musical Aptitude Profile
The oldest test of musical ability is the
A) Seashore Measures of Musical Talents.
B) Drake Musical Aptitude Test.
C) Musical Aptitude Profile.
D) Wing Standardized Tests of Musical Intelligence.
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