If the validity evidence focuses on the degree to which the evidence indicates the items, questions, or tasks adequately representing the intended behavior domain, which traditional category of validity would it be most related to?
A) Content-related validity
B) Criterion-related validity
C) Concurrent validity
D) Predictive validity
Q. 2Juan's client looked bewildered when Juan asked about her friendship with Belinda. Which of the following responses is an example of client-centered counseling?
A) What are you doing to make Belinda angry?
B) You looked confused when I asked about Belinda.
C) You have been doing a good job of avoiding Belinda.
D) Some people are just not friendly and Belinda seems to be one of those.
Q. 3In order to determine if an instrument can be used appropriately in a certain situation, the counselor must:
A) talk to a clinician who has used the instrument.
B) examine the reliability coefficients.
C) examine the validation evidence.
D) calculate a validity coefficient.
Q. 4Which of the following would generally not be considered a helping message during the first part of an interview with a client?
A) Silence with a non-verbal invitation to continue
B) A minimal encourager
C) Active listening
D) A probing response
Q. 5If an instrument measures consistently but does not measure what it was designed to measure, the instrument is:
A) valid but not reliable.
B) reliable but not valid.
C) standardized but not reliable.
D) reliable but not normative.
Q. 6Acceptance, according to the person-centered counseling approach of Carl Rogers, is based on several premises. Which of the following is one of them?
A) Individuals are not responsible for their own lives.
B) Individuals have limited potential based on their capacity for reasoning.
C) People have the right to make choices and decisions concerning their own lives.
D) The I-Thou relationship is of second order importance.
Q. 7What are two potential issues and trends while looking ahead to the future of assessment?
A) Having too many personality assessments available for counselors to choose from
B) Technology and the Internet and multicultural issues
C) Assessment instruments becoming increasingly difficult to score
D) Increased time and difficulty to administer assessment instruments
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