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Psychological Testing Questions and Answers

1.

The measurement of interests began as a relatively narrow and specialised development in the study of which of the following?

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: C

The key states that the measurement of interests began as a narrow, specialised development in the study of personality. Interest inventories grew out of attempts to describe the person's likes and dislikes as part of personality assessment. Aptitude, attitude and job orientation are named in the other options, but the key does not accept them.

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2.

Who standardised and adapted differential aptitude test for India?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

The key credits J. M. Ojha with standardising and adapting the Differential Aptitude Test for India. The Differential Aptitude Tests were originally made by Bennett, Seashore and Wesman in the United States. I could not verify the Indian adaptation history independently, so the key is followed as printed. The other three names are Indian psychologists associated with other tests and are not the key's choice.

The Differential Aptitude Tests measure verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, clerical speed and accuracy, mechanical reasoning, space relations, spelling and language use.

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Which of the following formula is used to determine reliability by the split-half method?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: A

The Spearman-Brown formula is used to estimate reliability by the split-half method, because correlating two halves of a test gives the reliability of only half the test length, and the formula steps this up to the full length. The Kuder-Richardson formulas and Cronbach's alpha measure internal consistency from all items, and there is no 'Wallis-Richardson formula' for reliability.

The split-half correlation is for half-length tests only, so the Spearman-Brown formula, r = 2r(hh) / (1 + r(hh)), is applied to find the reliability of the full test.

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4.

A combination of characteristics that indicates an individual's capacity to acquire some specific knowledge or skill after training is known as:

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: A

Aptitude is a combination of characteristics that indicates a person's capacity to acquire a particular knowledge or skill after training. Attitude is a lasting evaluation of something, and 'psycho-social ability' and 'skilling ability' are not standard terms for this idea.

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5.

Which of the following tests indirectly assess(es) the unconscious part of human behaviour?

1. Word association test
2. Sentence completion test
3. Seguin form board

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: D

Only the word association test and the sentence completion test indirectly assess the unconscious part of behaviour. These are projective techniques: the person responds to ambiguous or open material, and the response reveals hidden feelings and conflicts. The Seguin form board is a performance test of intelligence in which the person fits shaped blocks into a board, so it is not a probe of the unconscious, and options including 3 are wrong.

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6.

Behaviour analysis is used for which of the following?

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: A

The key gives information about personality. Behaviour analysis studies what a person does in situations, to find out the features of the personality that appear in how the person behaves. Understanding the response pattern, the situational response style and the subjective well-being are not the use that the key names.

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7.

Which of the following is a method of estimating reliability coefficient of a test?

1. Parallel form
2. Split-half technique
3. Rational equivalence

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: D

All three are methods of estimating reliability. The parallel (alternate) form method correlates scores on two equivalent forms of the test. The split-half technique correlates two halves of one test. The rational equivalence method (the Kuder-Richardson approach) estimates reliability from the inter-correlation of the items. So the options listing fewer than all three are incomplete.

A fourth way is the test-retest method, in which the same test is given twice to the same people and the two scores are correlated.

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Which of the following is assessed when a test is divided into two equal halves employing odd even method (items 1, 3, 5- in one group and items 2, 4, 6- in another group) and correlation is computed between the scores of odd and even items?

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: C

Dividing a test into two equal halves by the odd-even method and correlating the scores on the two halves assesses internal consistency, which is whether the items of the test measure the same thing. It is the split-half method of reliability. Correlational validity and criterial consistency are not the name of this check, and 'critical consistency' is not a psychometric term.

Odd-even splitting is preferred to a first-half, second-half split because fatigue and practice effects are spread equally between the two halves.

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9.

The cards of Rorschach Inkblot test are presented to the subject in two phases. Which of the following pairs suggests the exact nomenclature of these phases?

Exam Year(s)

DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

The Rorschach cards are presented in two phases, the performance proper (the subject says what the blot looks like) and the inquiry (the examiner asks where in the blot the person saw it and what made it look so). 'Understanding' and 'reporting' are not the names of the phases, so the other pairs are wrong.

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10.

Which of the following is the important concern of psychology in regard to psychological testing?

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DSSSB PGT - 2023,

Answer: B

The important concern of psychology in regard to psychological testing is the assessment of individual differences, that is, how people differ from one another in abilities, personality and other attributes. Individual capabilities and individual performance are particular things that tests may measure, and ethical issues are a concern of test use, not the main purpose of the testing.

Tests are used to compare people on the same attribute, so the aim is to show differences between persons and not just one person's score.

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