Mock 3 – Attitude Scales & Measurement

Unit 3: Psychological Testing · 9 questions · about 10 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

In order to interpret individual test scores and to calculate confidence interval, which of the following is important and necessary?

APearson product moment correlation BTest variance CSpearman - Brown formula DStandard error of measurement

Q2.

Match List-I with List-II

List I	List II
A. Standard scores that always have a mean of 50 and SD of 10	I. Percentile
B. Standard scores change the unit of measurement	II. Z-score
C. Standard score with a mean of zero and SD of 1	III. T-score
D. Units in testing that help to evaluate a person's performance in comparison with others who took the same test	IV. Standard score

AA-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV BA-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV CA-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV DA-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

Q3.

Identify the plausible logic for the introduction of deviation IQ.

ALevel of ratio IQ varies with age BRatio IQ is not measured on interval scale CSD of ratio IQ varies scale - to - scale DComparison of ratio IQ at different age levels is not possible as SD of IQ is not constant over age

Q4.

Which one of the following is usually not considered an example of the evaluative dimension of the Osgood Semantic Differential?

AClean –––––––––––– Dirty BSlow –––––––––––– Fast CGood –––––––––––– Bad DKind –––––––––––– Cruel

Q5.

Which of the following is the correct response pattern for the semantic differential test to measure a trait 'active'?

AI am active: SA A N D SD BI am active: True/False CChoose one: Active–Trusting DActive … Neutral … Passive

Q6.

Which of the following is an attitude measure that places a single adjective in the centre of an even number of numerical values?

AEdward scale BThurstone scale CStapel scale DSemantic differntial scale

Q7.

Which one of the following attitude scaling methods is especially unsuitable for scaling a large number of attitude statements?

APaired comparison BEqual appearing intervals CSummated ratings DSuccessive intervals

Q8.

Which one of the following personality test/s employ/s a 'Lie' scale?

A. Rotter's Locus of control scale

B. Eysenck Personality Profiler

C. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2

D. Edwards Personal Preference Schedule

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

AC only BB and C only CA, B and D only DB, C and D only

A psychologist developed a scale for measuring warmth and competence dimensions. As a part of scale development, she factor analysed 25 items to retain 20 items. She chose Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The Bartlett's test = 237.8, p < .001. The overall Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test (KMO) is 0.89. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was used to extract components. The first eight eigenvalues were 9.9, 6.5, 1.6, 1.00, 0.85, 0.83, 0.82 and 0.79. She retained factors on the basis of scree plot and rotated them using varimax criteria. Three items showed cross-loadings, eighteen items loaded on only one of the factors, and remaining items did not load on any factors.

Q9.

Using the Kaiser-Guttman criterion, how many factors would be retained in the above study?

A4 B8 C2 D3

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