The most useful procedure for determining the reliability of a speeded test is to apply one of the
internal consistency formulas.
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Although philosophers and scientists in many countries have contributed to psychology, the
science of psychology was not formally established until the last quarter of the 19th century in
A) England. B) Germany.
C) the United States. D) France.
Norms obtained from stratified random samples are preferred to those obtained from simple
random samples.
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An average high-school student can be expected to answer about 75 multiple-choice items and
150 true-false items in an hour.
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Alfred Binet defined intelligence as the ability to learn or adapt to one's environment
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The use of formal oral examinations for the selection of civil servants began with the ancient
A) Chinese. B) Jews. C) Greeks. D) Egyptians.
Norms are standards of acceptable performance for evaluating test scores.
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The effectiveness of a multiple-choice item is determined primarily by the skill with which the
distracters are constructed or selected.
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Test-retest, parallel forms, and internal consistency reliability formulas are appropriate for both
norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests.
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Francis Galton conducted studies of family trees and devised a number of tests of sensory
discrimination and reaction time to measure the components of intelligence.
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