Psychological Testing Questions and Answers

Q: The following tool is best suited to assess personality disorders :

The tool best suited to personality disorders is the MCMI.The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory was built by Theodore Millon specifically around the personality disorders of the DSM, with scales for each personality pattern alongside clinical syndrome scales. Its main purpose is to assess personality pathology.The MMPI is a broad measure of psychopathology centred on clinical syndromes such as depression and schizophrenia. The MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) is a brief screen for cognitive impairment. The NEO-PI measures the five normal personality domains rather than disorders.

Q: The Children's Apperception Test uses this material in the stimulus cards :

The Children's Apperception Test uses animal pictures.Leopold and Sonya Bellak designed the CAT for children of about 3 to 10, reasoning that young children identify more readily with animals than with people. The cards show animals in human situations, such as bears in a tug-of-war or chicks at a table, and the child tells a story about each.A later version, the CAT-H, substituted human figures, and the adult TAT uses drawn scenes of people, but the standard CAT is the animal form. Photographs and cartoons are not its stimulus material.

Q: In the Wechsler memory scale, which subtest consists of passages ?

The subtest that uses passages is Logical Memory.In Logical Memory the examiner reads short story passages aloud, and the person recalls them immediately and again after a delay. It is the main measure of verbal, meaningful memory in the Wechsler Memory Scale.Mental Control asks for overlearned sequences such as counting backwards. Memory Span (digit span) uses strings of digits. Associate Learning uses word pairs to be learned and recalled. None of them uses connected passages.

Q: The validity scales on the MMPI and MMPI II are represented by the following alphabets :

The MMPI validity scales are L, F, K.The three traditional validity scales are L (Lie), which catches unlikely claims of virtue; F (Infrequency), which catches rare or random responding and faking bad; and K (Correction), which picks up subtle defensiveness and is used to correct several clinical scales. The MMPI-2 kept them and added others such as VRIN, TRIN and F(b).T, F, C; M, P, R; and Y, N, C are not MMPI validity scales. The '?' (Cannot Say) count of unanswered items is the other long-standing validity indicator.

Q: A blank card is used in :

A blank card is used in the TAT.Murray's Thematic Apperception Test includes card 16, which is completely blank. The person imagines a picture on it and tells a story, giving the most unstructured stimulus in the set.The CAT uses pictures of animals, the Rorschach uses ten inkblot cards, and the Bender-Gestalt Test uses nine geometric designs to be copied. None of them has a blank card.

Q: The validity of a psychological test reflects that :

Validity means that the test measures what it purports to measure.A valid test supports the interpretations made from its scores: an anxiety scale measures anxiety, not mood in general. Validity is established through content, criterion-related and construct evidence.The other three options describe reliability. Similar results on repeated use is test-retest reliability, similar results from different versions is parallel or alternate-forms reliability, and positive inter-item correlation is internal consistency. A test can be reliable without being valid.

Q: On the WAIS, the ability to deal with abstract social conventions, rules and expressions is assessed through which test ?

This is the Comprehension subtest.Comprehension asks questions such as why certain social rules exist or what to do in a practical situation, and includes the meaning of proverbs. It taps knowledge of social conventions, practical judgement and the ability to explain abstract social rules and expressions.Information measures general factual knowledge. Similarities asks how two things are alike, testing verbal concept formation rather than social conventions. Picture Completion asks for the missing part of a picture, a test of visual alertness.

Q: An instrument in which the individual's score is compared with scores of other individuals is called :

This is a norm-referenced instrument.A norm-referenced test interprets a person's score by comparing it with the scores of a reference group, the norm sample, so results are expressed as percentiles, standard scores or IQs. Most standardized intelligence and aptitude tests work this way.A criterion-referenced test compares performance with a fixed standard of mastery, not with other people. An ipsative instrument compares a person's scores on different scales with each other, within the same person. Projective describes the kind of stimulus used, such as inkblots, not the basis of comparison.

Q: Which of the following is non-pictorial projective procedures ?(1) Word association test(2) Sentence completion test(3) Figure drawing test(4) Thematic apperception test

The non-pictorial projective procedures are (1) and (2).The word association test presents words and the sentence completion test presents incomplete sentences, so both use verbal stimuli rather than pictures.The Thematic Apperception Test presents pictures about which the person tells stories, so it is pictorial. Figure drawing tests (such as Draw-a-Person or House-Tree-Person) require the person to produce a picture, so they are classed as expressive or pictorial techniques, not non-pictorial ones. Options including (3) or (4) are wrong.

81.

The following tool is best suited to assess personality disorders :

A.MCMI
B.MMPI
C.MOCA
D.NEOPI

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: A

The tool best suited to personality disorders is the MCMI.

The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory was built by Theodore Millon specifically around the personality disorders of the DSM, with scales for each personality pattern alongside clinical syndrome scales. Its main purpose is to assess personality pathology.

The MMPI is a broad measure of psychopathology centred on clinical syndromes such as depression and schizophrenia. The MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) is a brief screen for cognitive impairment. The NEO-PI measures the five normal personality domains rather than disorders.

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82.

The Children's Apperception Test uses this material in the stimulus cards :

A.Photographs
B.Animal pictures
C.Cartoons
D.Human figures

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: B

The Children's Apperception Test uses animal pictures.

Leopold and Sonya Bellak designed the CAT for children of about 3 to 10, reasoning that young children identify more readily with animals than with people. The cards show animals in human situations, such as bears in a tug-of-war or chicks at a table, and the child tells a story about each.

A later version, the CAT-H, substituted human figures, and the adult TAT uses drawn scenes of people, but the standard CAT is the animal form. Photographs and cartoons are not its stimulus material.

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83.

In the Wechsler memory scale, which subtest consists of passages ?

A.Mental control
B.Memory span
C.Associate learning
D.Logical memory

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: D

The subtest that uses passages is Logical Memory.

In Logical Memory the examiner reads short story passages aloud, and the person recalls them immediately and again after a delay. It is the main measure of verbal, meaningful memory in the Wechsler Memory Scale.

Mental Control asks for overlearned sequences such as counting backwards. Memory Span (digit span) uses strings of digits. Associate Learning uses word pairs to be learned and recalled. None of them uses connected passages.

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84.

The validity scales on the MMPI and MMPI II are represented by the following alphabets :

A.T, F, C
B.L, F, K
C.M, P, R
D.Y, N, C

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: B

The MMPI validity scales are L, F, K.

The three traditional validity scales are L (Lie), which catches unlikely claims of virtue; F (Infrequency), which catches rare or random responding and faking bad; and K (Correction), which picks up subtle defensiveness and is used to correct several clinical scales. The MMPI-2 kept them and added others such as VRIN, TRIN and F(b).

T, F, C; M, P, R; and Y, N, C are not MMPI validity scales. The '?' (Cannot Say) count of unanswered items is the other long-standing validity indicator.

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85.

A blank card is used in :

A.CAT
B.Rorschach
C.TAT
D.BGT

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: C

A blank card is used in the TAT.

Murray's Thematic Apperception Test includes card 16, which is completely blank. The person imagines a picture on it and tells a story, giving the most unstructured stimulus in the set.

The CAT uses pictures of animals, the Rorschach uses ten inkblot cards, and the Bender-Gestalt Test uses nine geometric designs to be copied. None of them has a blank card.

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86.

High positive correlation between self-report and observer report on personality questionnaire indicates :

A.High reliability of self-report measure
B.High reliability of other report measure
C.Normative use of other report measure
D.Validity of self-report measure

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: D

A high correlation between self-report and observer report indicates the validity of the self-report measure.

When two different methods, the person's own report and the ratings of someone who knows them, agree closely on the same trait, that agreement is evidence of convergent validity: the self-report is measuring the trait it claims to measure, not merely the person's self-image.

Reliability is consistency of the same measure across time, forms or items, so a correlation between two different sources is not evidence of either measure's reliability as such. 'Normative use' of observer reports is unrelated to the correlation.

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87.

The validity of a psychological test reflects that :

A.on repeated use it yields similar results
B.Multiple versions of the test yield similar results
C.Inter-correlations between items are positive
D.The test measures what it purports to measure

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: D

Validity means that the test measures what it purports to measure.

A valid test supports the interpretations made from its scores: an anxiety scale measures anxiety, not mood in general. Validity is established through content, criterion-related and construct evidence.

The other three options describe reliability. Similar results on repeated use is test-retest reliability, similar results from different versions is parallel or alternate-forms reliability, and positive inter-item correlation is internal consistency. A test can be reliable without being valid.

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88.

On the WAIS, the ability to deal with abstract social conventions, rules and expressions is assessed through which test ?

A.Information
B.Similarities
C.Picture completion
D.Comprehension

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: D

This is the Comprehension subtest.

Comprehension asks questions such as why certain social rules exist or what to do in a practical situation, and includes the meaning of proverbs. It taps knowledge of social conventions, practical judgement and the ability to explain abstract social rules and expressions.

Information measures general factual knowledge. Similarities asks how two things are alike, testing verbal concept formation rather than social conventions. Picture Completion asks for the missing part of a picture, a test of visual alertness.

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89.

An instrument in which the individual's score is compared with scores of other individuals is called :

A.Ipsative instrument
B.Projective instrument
C.Norm Referenced instrument
D.Criterion Referenced instrument

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2024, SET Exam - 2024,

Answer: C

This is a norm-referenced instrument.

A norm-referenced test interprets a person's score by comparing it with the scores of a reference group, the norm sample, so results are expressed as percentiles, standard scores or IQs. Most standardized intelligence and aptitude tests work this way.

A criterion-referenced test compares performance with a fixed standard of mastery, not with other people. An ipsative instrument compares a person's scores on different scales with each other, within the same person. Projective describes the kind of stimulus used, such as inkblots, not the basis of comparison.

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90.

Which of the following is non-pictorial projective procedures ?

(1) Word association test
(2) Sentence completion test
(3) Figure drawing test
(4) Thematic apperception test

A.(1) only
B.(1) and (2) only
C.(1), (2), and (3) only
D.(1), (2), and (4) only

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2025, SET Exam - 2025,

Answer: B

The non-pictorial projective procedures are (1) and (2).

The word association test presents words and the sentence completion test presents incomplete sentences, so both use verbal stimuli rather than pictures.

The Thematic Apperception Test presents pictures about which the person tells stories, so it is pictorial. Figure drawing tests (such as Draw-a-Person or House-Tree-Person) require the person to produce a picture, so they are classed as expressive or pictorial techniques, not non-pictorial ones. Options including (3) or (4) are wrong.

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