UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION B Sc COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY (2011 Admission Onwards) VI Semester ELECTIVE COURSE COUNSELLING IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING QUESTION BANK 1. A psychological test is... a. A measure of personality b. An objective procedure for sampling and quantifying human behaviour 2. Who developed the first individual test of intelligence? a. Sigmund Frued b. William James c. Alfred Binet 3. Which among the following is included in the definition of personality psychology? a. It deals with adaptations to the environment b. It deals with how traits influence the environment c. Both a and b Counselling in Psychological Testing Page 1
4. Who popularised emotional intelligence? a. Daniel Goleman b. Guilford c. Sternberg School of Distance Education 5. IQ may be defined as a. MA/CA x 100 b. CA/MA x 100 c. MA/100 x CA 6. The three dimensional model of intelligence is proposed by... a. Guilford b. Thorndike c. Thurston 7. The Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale a. Was designed to test adult intelligence b. Assumes that intellectual ability in childhood improves as age increases c. Provide separate scores for performance intelligence and verbal intelligence 8.... test assesses a wide variety of mental abilities? a. IQ b. Multiple intelligence c. General intelligence 9. Heredity influence... a. Attitude b. Aptitude c. Interest 10. The ability to manage one s own thinking and problem solving is called... a. Meta cognitive skills b. Experiential intelligence c. General intelligence 11. Psychological tests are used to... a. Promote self understanding b. Measure psychological constructs c. Both a and b Counselling in Psychological Testing Page 2
12. Word Association is... a. A projective test b. A memory test c. A creativity test School of Distance Education 13.... is NOT included in the types of intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner a. Language b. Interpersonal skills c. Creativity 14. The first self- report test of personality was developed by... a. Simon b. Terman c. Woodworth 15. The MMPI was designed to... a. Discriminate between normal and patient groups with particular diagnosis b. Assess personality in normal adults 16. Wechsler s definition of intelligence states about... a. Naturalistic intelligence b. Ability to deal effectively with the environment c. Spatial and kinaesthetic intelligence 17.... is the capacity for learning certain and specific abilities? a. Aptitude b. Intelligence c. Achievement 18. Which of the following is NOT usually used in personality assessment? a. Psychological testing b. Counselling c. Observation 19. MMPI is an example for... test a. Criterion referenced b. Self reported c. Performance 20. The Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) was created by... a. Carroll b. Woodworth c. Binet Counselling in Psychological Testing Page 3
21. An ability for learning foreign language implies... a. Language aptitude b. Creative thinking 22. A researcher who studies how evolution may have shaped human behaviour is the... domain of personality knowledge? a. Biological b. Cognitive c. Socio- cultural 23. The author of Frames of Mind is... a. Frued b. Gardner c. Allport 24. For something to be part of a personality, it should... a. Always be evident b. Be relatively stable over time c. Never change 25. Aptitude test is for... a. Selection for jobs b. Admission for professional courses c. All the above 26. Which are the main components of Spearman s Two Factor Theory of intelligence? a. Primary abilities and secondary abilities b. Specific intelligence and general intelligence c. Emotional abilities and cognitive abilities 27. William Stern developed the concept of... a. Emotional Quotient b. Intelligence Quotient c. Emotional Intelligence 28. Which among the following is NOT a form of Howard Gardner s form of intelligence? a. Visual-auditory dimension b. Bodily kinaesthetic c. Sptial Counselling in Psychological Testing Page 4
29. Thematic Apperception test was developed by... a. Hermann Rorschach b. Morgan and Murray c. Carl Rogers 30. In Sternberg s Triarchic theory of Intelligence, the experiential sub theory refers to... a. Cognitive self- motivation & organisation skills b. Internal mechanisms that underlie intelligence behaviour 31. According to Spearman what does g stand for? a. General intelligence b. General knowledge c. Group intelligence 32. Introvert personality can be studied by... a. Sociometry b. Introspection c. Projective techniques 33. Rorschach s ink blot test is used to measure... a. Creativity b. Personality c. Intelligence 34. Introspection is purely... a. A subjective method b. An objective method c. An experimental method 35. The basis of creativity is... a. Logical thinking b. Convergent thinking c. Divergent thinking 36. The word battery popularly used in the measurement of intelligence means... a. A long series of performance tests b. A chain of many sub tests c. A collection of variety of test items Counselling in Psychological Testing Page 5
37. Trait and type approaches to the study of personality are combined by... a. Allport b. Cattell c. Guilford 38. A person exposes himself freely without knowing that his personality is being assessed is... a. Objective technique b. Projective technique c. Clinical technique 39. The concept of extraversion and introversion in personality was given by... a. Sheldon b. Jung c. Kretchmer 40. All the performance test may be classified under... a. Group test b. Speed test c. Individual test Counselling in Psychological Testing Page 6
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