1. Which of the following is NOT true regarding assessment?
a. It is the larger process of looking at multiple measures to draw a conclusion.
b. Assessment is a subset of testing.
c. Personality instruments that are objective and/or projective may be used.
d. An interview, observation, or personal documents may all be part of an assessment.
e. All of these are not true.
2. Which group of people were among the first to use a test for the selection of government employees?
a. The Chinese
b. The French
c. The English
d. The German
3. __________ thought that language ability was related to intelligence while __________ thought that non-verbal
ability, or sensory motor skills, was related to intelligence.
a. Galton; Terman
b. Wundt; Cattell
c. Darwin; Wundt
d. Esquirol; Seguin
4. Who was hired by the French Ministry of Public Education to create one of the first intelligence tests?
a. Terman
b. Binet
c. Bryant
d. Wundt
e. Stanford
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5. Which person set out to create “a new domain of science” that he called physiological psychology?
a. Terman
b. Binet
c. Darwin
d. Wundt
e. Cattell
6. If Tilberg has a mental age of 9 and a chronological age of 10, Terman would state that his IQ was which of the
following?
a. 111
b. .9
c. 90
d. .111
e. None of these
7. This person is known for coining the term “mental test.”
a. Esquirol
b. Binet
c. Darwin
d. Wundt
e. Cattell
8. Which early scientist believed that individuals who had a quicker reaction time and stronger grip strength were
superior intellectually?
a. Charles Darwin
b. Francis Galton
c. James Cattell
d. Alfred Binet
e. G. S. Hall
9. The modern use of screening and diagnostic measures to assess behavioral changes due to brain trauma, which is
now called neuropsychological assessment, is often accredited to which event?
a. The Civil War
b. World War I
c. The Tuskegee experiments
d. The launching of Sputnik
10. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the history and development of neuropsychological assessment?
a. Examining behavioral changes as a result of head trauma is documented by the Egyptians 5,000 years ago.
b. The Romans were the first to associate regional head traumas with corresponding specific behavioral
changes.
c. World War I prompted significant increases in screening and diagnostic measures for behavioral changes as
of a result of head injuries.
d. MRI brain imaging and other medical techniques assisted in the development and improvement of modern
neuropsychological assessment.
e. All of these are true.
11. This individual, who ultimately revised the Binet-Simon scale, began analyzing and methodically gathering extensive
normative data from hundreds of children in the Stanford area.
a. Esquirol
b. Seguin
c. Bryant
d. Wundt
e. Terman
12. The Eugenics movement believed which of the following?
a. Testing could be used to identify slow learners and the information gained could be used to help them learn
better.
b. Testing was a poor substitute for other methods (e.g. interviewing) of understanding the person.
c. Information from testing could be used to determine which groups of people were intellectually inferior.
d. The SATs could be used to help identify slow learners so that one could help these individuals gain entrance
into college.
13. Who of the following was NOT influential in the Eugenics movement?
a. Galton
b. Terman
c. Binet
d. Yerkes
e. All were influential in the Eugenics movement
14. Which person below is considered a leader in vocational counseling in the 20th century?
a. Emil Kraeplin
b. Frank Parsons
c. G. S. Hall
d. Lewis Terman
15. Which of the following is not a Group Test of Ability?
a. Army Alpha
b. SATs
c. The General Aptitude Test Battery
d. The Rorschach
e. All of these are Group Tests of Ability.
16. Identify the individual NOT correctly matched to the corresponding test or concept.
a. Kraepelin: Crude word association test
b. Woodworth: “Inkblot Test”
c. Murray: Thematic Apperception Test
d. Cattell: “Mental Test”
17. Identify the individual NOT correctly matched to the corresponding test or concept.
a. Cattell: Examined associations of healthy individuals to words
b. Jung: Stimulus word could identify mental illness
c. Galton: Recorded own associations to stimulus
d. Rorschach: “Personal Data Sheet”
e. G. S. Hall: Early experimental psychologist. First President of APA
18. Which individual is considered the developer of the Stanford Achievement Test?
a. Parsons
b. Murray
c. Terman
d. Binet
e. Thorndike
19. Which of the following people were NOT involved in the early development of projective tests?
a. Carl Jung
b. Herman Rorschach
c. Murray
d. Strong
20. Which of the following tests or instruments was NOT used in the selection of recruits during WWI?
a. Army Alpha
b. Army Beta
c. Kraepelin’s Word Association Test
d. Woodworth’s Personal Data Sheet
e. None of these – they were all used
21. Which individual was NOT involved with assessing the interests of individuals in order to assist them in vocational
counseling?
a. Miner
b. Thorndike
c. Strong
d. Cattell
22. Which of the following is LEAST important when assessing an individual?
a. Might this person be unfairly labeled from my testing?
b. Am I invading this person’s right to privacy?
c. Is the information I’m getting valid and useful?
d. None of the above – they are all important.
23. Assessment is a subset of testing.
a. True
b. False
24. Making an inference from a single test or instrument often leads to misunderstanding of the individual.
a. True
b. False
25. In some of Plato’s writing, he indicated that the Greek’s assessed both the intellectual and physical ability of men
when screening for state service.
a. True
b. False
26. Interestingly, some have argued that early civil service exams by the Chinese and Greeks seemed to have a feminist
orientation, as they assessed women for their intellectual ability in order to place them in what were typically male
oriented occupations.
a. True
b. False
27. James McKeen Cattell became one of the earliest psychologists to use statistical concepts in understanding the
person.
a. True
b. False
28. Neuropsychological assessment is most generally associated with identifying students who are either gifted or have a
learning disability.
a. True
b. False
29. Robert Yerkes, past president of the American Psychological Association, chaired a committee in which Terman
and others served that developed verbal and non-verbal tests of the SATs.
a. True
b. False
30. The original purpose of the SATs was to identify the ability of individuals in order to equalize educational
opportunities.
a. True
b. False
31. Miner was the creator of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank; its successor is still in use today.
a. True
b. False
32. Informal assessment procedures became particularly popular in the 18th century.
a. True
b. False
Match the correct term with its description.
a. Paper-and-pencil tests, usually given in school settings, which measure broad content areas. Often used to
assess progress in school.
b. Tests that assess problem areas of learning. Often used to assess learning disabilities.
c. Tests that measure one’s appropriateness to move onto the next grade level.
d. Use intelligence testing and neuropsychological assessment.
e. Often based on what one has learned in school, these instruments measure a broad range of mental ability and
are useful in making predictions about the future (e.g., whether an individual might succeed in college).
f. Tests that measure many aspects of ability. Often useful in determining the likelihood of success in a number
of vocations.
g. Tests that measure one aspect of ability. Often useful in determining the likelihood of success in a specific
vocation.
REFERENCES: The History of Assessment
33. Diagnostic Tests
34. Survey Battery Tests
35. Readiness Tests
36. Multiple Aptitude Tests
37. Special Aptitude Tests
38. Intellectual and Cognitive functioning
39. Cognitive Ability Tests
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Match the correct term with the description.
a. Tests in the affective realm used to assess habits, temperament, likes and dislikes, character, and behaviors.
b. Tests that measure likes and dislikes as well as one’s personality orientation toward the world of work.
Generally used in career counseling.
c. Numerically measuring the degree of an attribute of an examinee. Can be measured by the examinee or
someone who knows the examinee well.
d. Tests that present a stimuli to which individuals can respond. Personality factors are interpreted based on the
individual’s response. Often used to identify psychopathology and to assist in treatment planning.
e. Assessing behaviors of an individual by examining items such as diaries, personal journals, school records, etc.
f. Paper-and-pencil tests, often in multiple choice or true/false formats, that assess various aspects of
personality. Often used to increase client insight, to identify psychopathology, and to assist in treatment
planning.
g. To view or study an individual in order to develop a deeper understanding of one or more specific behaviors.
REFERENCES: The History of Assessment
40. Records and documentation
41. Projective Tests
42. Objective Personality
43. Ability and Aptitude Testing
44. Personality Testing
45. Rating Scales
46. Interest Inventories
Match the person with the correct description.
a. Revised the Binet-Simon Scale.
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b. Stated that language ability is related to levels of intelligence.
c. Developed the Stanford Achievement Test.
d. Used statistics to test mental functions and came up with the term “mental test.”
e. Developed one of the first psychological laboratories.
f. Developed SAT to equalize educational opportunities.
g. Developed the “form board” to increase motor control and sensory discrimination.
h. The cousin of Darwin, believed physical characteristics such as reaction time might be related to intelligence.
i. Developed one of the first tests of intelligence.
j. Former president of the American Psychological Association and chaired committee that developed the Army
Alpha.
REFERENCES: The History of Assessment
47. Esquirol
48. Wundt
49. Galton
50. Binet
51. Terman
52. Seguin
53. Conant
54. J.M. Cattell
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55. Yerkes
56. Thorndike
Match the person with the correct description.
a. Recorded his associations to a number of stimulus words in order to “enter into the deepest recess of the
character.”
b. Developed one of the first widely used interest inventories.
c. Early researcher of vocational assessment. Examined the interests of 100 students as they progressed from
elementary school through college.
d. Developed the Thematic Apperception Test.
e. Developed one of the first personality tests. Test was used to screen WWI recruits for their susceptibility to
mental health problems.
f. Thought he could identify mental illness by presenting a list of 156 words that subjects respond to as quickly as
possible.
g. Introduced the first diagnostic and statistical manual in 1952.
h. Developed the “Inkblot Test.”
REFERENCES: The History of Assessment
57. Strong
58. Rorschach
59. Galton
60. Murray
61. Jung
62. APA
63. Woodworth
64. Thorndike