Chapter 7: Test Administration

Question 1

19. What role does the relationship between examiner and test taker play?

Answer 1

The better your relationship, the better you score

Question 2

20. What is the relationship between test examiner race and intelligence scores?

Answer 2

If it highly standardized, the effects are minimal

If there are untrained individuals administering, the more effect it has on scores

Question 3

21. Why would examiner race effects be smaller on IQ tests than on other psychological tests?

Answer 3

Highly standardized and administered by trained psychologists

Question 4

22. What is the standard for test takers who are fluent in two languages?

Answer 4

Administer in their best language but ensure the test in the new language is valid and reliable

Question 5

23. Define expectancy effects and know whose name is associated with these effects

Answer 5

• Rosenthal effects
• An examiner has certain expectations for the outcome of a test and it introduces bias to the scores

Question 6

24. A review of many studies showed that expectancy effects exist in ________ situations

Answer 6

Some but not all

Question 7

25. What types of situations might require the examiner to deviate from standardized testing procedures

Answer 7

For special populations such as the blind, deaf, etc.

Question 8

26. What advantages and disadvantages were mentioned in lecture and the text regarding computer administered tests?

Answer 8

• Adv: More standardized, more likely to be honest to a machine, reduces/eliminates bias, own pace, one-to-one interaction, immediate feedback
• Disadv: Computer generated reports have limitations, no clinical judgment

Question 9

27. What subject variables can impact testing?

Answer 9

Non-intellective factors that are not manipulated as part of the research (ex: sleep, illness, hunger, previous experience)

Question 10

28. What are the three major problems in behavioral observation studies?

Answer 10

• Reactivity, drift, expectancy effects

Question 11

29. What is reactivity? How does performance change when people are not being observed or checked?

Answer 11

Observers will be more strict with themselves when they know they are being observed

Question 12

30. What is drift? How does it relate to the contrast effect? How can drift be addressed?

Answer 12

• drift: the more you observe behavior, the more your ideas about the observed behavior will change
• contrast effect: the more you see behavior, the less it will stand out to you

Question 13

31. What are experimenter expectancies? How do they introduce bias?

Answer 13

• Test administrator’s expectations influence the test result in based on what they expect to find
• Grading tests based on perceptions, giving more attention, etc.

Question 14

32. How well do people do in detecting deception/lies?

Answer 14

• Often we are worse than chance
• Lie detector tests detect about 1% of variance

Question 15

33. What is the Halo Effect? Be able to think of examples where the Halo Effect applies.

Answer 15

Attributing positive attributes to an individual for reasons other than the trait

ex: thinking someone is kind because they are attractive

Question 16

People are _______ at detecting lies

Answer 16

Poor. They perform worse than chance