Interest in scholastic aptitude has greatly increased in the past 50 years due to
a. increased women in the workforce.
b. the Industrial Revolution.
c. the need to identify college-bound youth who have the aptitude to be successful.
d. the need to identify special education placements.
Q. 2Aptitude tests are limited to
a. cognition and predictive-criterion.
b. cognitive and psychomotor facets.
c. behavioral and psychosocial facets.
d. cognitive and psychosocial facets.
Q. 3The applications for aptitude tests are
a. rather specific to school-aged populations.
b. only used for predicting school performance.
c. quite broad in nature.
d. broad in behavioral nature.
Q. 4Aptitude testing is used for __________ decisions.
a. graduate admission
b. armed services placement
c. vocational rehabilitation
d. All of the above.
Q. 5Aptitude tests are generally developed with the intention of predicting
a. a wide range of abilities across academic domains.
b. a narrow range of skills and abilities.
c. the percentage of ones success in his chosen career path.
d. None of the above.
Q. 6Which of the following is true about aptitude testing when compared to intelligence testing?
a. Aptitude testing serves to predict future performance.
b. Aptitude testing has a more global predictive application.
c. Aptitude testing can be used to predict performance across academic domains.
d. Aptitude testing can be helpful in identifying strengths and weaknesses.
Q. 7Which of the following statements is NOT true about aptitude?
a. Some believe aptitude is equivalent to intelligence.
b. Some view a characteristic of aptitude as an absence of innate ability.
c. Aptitude testing better determines ones intelligence than actual intelligence testing does.
d. Aptitude is psychomotor in orientation.
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