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131.

Given below are two statements, the first labelled as Assertion (A) and the second labelled as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Test-Retest reliability of Psychometric tests is more than that of projective tests.
Reason (R) : Trait approach presumes consistency of personality.
Codes :

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

Both statements are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). The test-retest reliability of psychometric tests is higher than that of projective tests, since psychometric tests are objectively scored and standardised, while projective responses are open to interpretation and vary.

The trait approach does presume that personality is consistent across time, but this is a general assumption about personality and does not explain why psychometric tests are more reliable than projective ones. So the second option is correct.

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132.

Who among the following has developed a test for personality assessment where the subject has to choose between a pair of jokes ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: D

The test of personality in which the subject chooses between pairs of jokes is the Humor Test of Personality of R.B. Cattell. It is one of Cattell's objective tests, in which a person's preferences are the clue to personality.

J.M. Cattell is the American psychologist who is known for mental tests and the study of individual differences, and the names McCafe and McCall are not linked to this joke test. So the fourth option is correct.

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133.

Given below are two statements, the first labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Indicate your answer using the codes given below :

Assertion (A) : Total variance of test score is the sum of True Variance and Error Variance.
Reason (R) : True score and error score are independent of each other.
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

Both statements are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion, which is the first code.

In classical test theory an observed score equals the true score plus the error score. Because the true score and the error score are independent of each other, the covariance between them is zero, and so the total variance is exactly the sum of the true variance and the error variance. The independence in (R) is what makes the additive variance in (A) hold.

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134.

Which of the following is most appropriate for the assessment of Self-Actualization ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

The Personal Orientation Inventory is the most appropriate for the assessment of self-actualization. It was developed by Everett Shostrom to measure values and behaviours of self-actualizing people in the sense of Maslow.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator measures personality type preferences, the Rosenberg scale measures self-esteem, and the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule measures manifest needs. None of them is intended to assess self-actualization.

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135.

Arrange the following tests in decreasing order of their projective ability :

1. Rorschach's Ink Blot Test
2. Thematic Apperception Test
3. Rosenzweig's Picture Frustration Scale
4. Sack's Sentence Completion Test
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

The key gives the decreasing order of projective ability as the Rorschach Ink Blot Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, Rosenzweig's Picture Frustration Scale and the Sentence Completion Test, which is the code 1, 2, 3, 4.

Projective ability falls with the structure of the stimulus: the ink blots are the most ambiguous, the picture stimulus of the TAT is less so, the Rosenzweig scale gives more structure with its cartoons, and sentence stems the most. The reversed and mixed orders are rejected.

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136.

Which of the following is correct of the Rorschach Ink Blot Cards ?

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: A

The Rorschach cards include five chromatic and five achromatic cards. Cards I, IV, V, VI and VII are black and grey, cards II and III have red along with black, and cards VIII, IX and X are multicoloured.

The other options give a different division, such as two chromatic and eight achromatic cards, or add unstructured cards, and none of these matches the ten-card set.

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137.

Substantially higher performance scores than verbal scores on the subtests of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) indicates

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UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

Substantially higher performance scores than verbal scores on the WAIS point to learning difficulties.

The Wechsler scale has a verbal part and a performance part. A person whose performance subtests, such as block design and picture arrangement, are far above the verbal subtests often has trouble with language-based learning, reading and schooling, and this pattern is used as a clue to a learning disability.

It does not by itself show gender differences, genetic influences or cultural bias, which need other evidence. The official key marks learning difficulties.

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138.

What is the correct sequence of development of the following personality tests :

1. Maudsley Personality Inventory
2. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
3. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
4. NEO PI-3
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: D

The order of development is Maudsley, MMPI-2, Millon, NEO PI-3.

The key gives the order in which the tests came, beginning with the Maudsley Personality Inventory and ending with the revised NEO PI-3, the most recent of the four. The sequence 1, 3, 2, 4 is the last option.

The other options start with NEO PI-3 or MMPI-2, or reverse the order of the four tests, so they do not agree with the key.

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139.

Speed and power tests cannot be differentiated on the basis of

I. Time limit
II. Verbal content
III. Non-verbal content
IV. Difficulty level
Codes :

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: C

Speed and power tests cannot be differentiated on the basis of verbal content and non-verbal content.

A speed test has a strict time limit and easy items, and a power test has generous time and items that rise in difficulty. So the time limit and the difficulty level do differentiate them.

Either kind of test may use verbal or non-verbal material, so statements II and III cannot tell the two apart, and the option with II and III is correct. What separates the two kinds of test is how the items are set and timed, not the language or symbols in which they are written.

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140.

A fifth test was added to an established selection test battery of four tests. The old and new versions were correlated to an external criterion of job proficiency. The significant change in R2 was noted. This provided an evidence for

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: D

The significant change in R squared on adding the fifth test shows incremental validity: the new test improves the prediction of job proficiency beyond what the four earlier tests already gave. Incremental validity is judged from the gain in explained variance when a predictor is added to a regression.

Internal consistency concerns how well items or tests agree with each other, not prediction of an outside criterion. Construct validity is shown by convergent and discriminant evidence, and reliability is about consistency of scores. Correlation with an external criterion is validity, not reliability.

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