LSP Psychological Assessment & Evaluation 2

Question 1

A school psychologist wants to assess a bilingual student's cognitive abilities without being confounded by language proficiency. Which instrument is MOST appropriate?

Accepted Answer

Leiter International Performance Scale

Answer

WISC-V Full Scale

Answer

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

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Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement

Question 2

On the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), a score of 29 falls into which severity category?

Accepted Answer

Severe depression

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Minimal depression

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Mild depression

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Moderate depression

Question 3

Which statistical concept describes the degree to which an assessment measures what it purports to measure?

Accepted Answer

Validity

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Reliability

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Standardization

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Norm-referencing

Question 4

A psychologist administers the MMPI-2 and finds a client's K scale is significantly elevated. What does this suggest?

Accepted Answer

The client may be defensively denying psychological difficulties

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The client is exaggerating symptoms

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The client's protocol is invalid due to random responding

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The client shows genuine but subtle psychopathology

Question 5

Which Rorschach scoring variable in the Exner Comprehensive System reflects an individual's reality-testing ability?

Accepted Answer

X+% (extended form quality)

Answer

Lambda

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Experience Balance (EB)

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Affective Ratio (Afr)

Question 6

During a neuropsychological evaluation, the Trail Making Test Part B primarily assesses which cognitive domain?

Accepted Answer

Set-shifting and cognitive flexibility

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Verbal memory consolidation

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Psychomotor speed only

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Visual-spatial construction

Question 7

A client produces a protocol on a projective sentence completion task that is highly guarded with minimal responses. This is BEST described as a threat to which type of validity?

Accepted Answer

Protocol validity

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Predictive validity

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Internal consistency

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Divergent validity