Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 2 Personality - PsyAsia International Community

Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 2P

Final Course Exam: PAWL2P

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1 / 15

Listen to this feedback. What is the STEN score that represents the feedback being given?

2 / 15

How many response style indicators does Identity have?
(use digits in your answer)

3 / 15

The statistical tool used frequently to establish the validity of personality assessments in the prediction of workplace performance is:

Factor analysis

Correlation

Internal consistency

Multiple regression

4 / 15

Look at this item from a personality assessment. Assuming you are asked to choose which of these points is most and least like you, what type of an item is this?

Opaque & Normative

Transparent & Ipsative

Opaque & Ipsative

Transparent & Normative

5 / 15

The fact that watching violence on TV may lead children to be violent is support for which of the debates we discussed? (Assuming all else is equal)

The nature debate

The nurture debate

6 / 15

The Big-5 Model of Personality consists of:

Extraversion
Openness to experience
Agreeableness
Anxiety (or Neuroticism)

7 / 15

When assessing reliability in a personality assessment it is best to assess and report:

Reliability on a scale by scale basis

The median reliability

The mean reliability

The range of reliabilities

8 / 15

Select ALL that apply to the TYPE approach to personality assessment:

Useful in team-building

Is a collection of traits

Are more psychometrically sound

Exaggerates differences between people

Represents the building blocks of personality

Is useful in occupational selection

Easier for the layperson to understand

Can be cumbersome

9 / 15

Greatest validity will be found when interpreting personality assessments based on:

multiple scale scores

single scale scores

10 / 15

The lexical hypothesis suggests that people from different parts of the world have different lexicons which they use in speech.

True

False

11 / 15

Listen to the audio feedback. What STEN score do you think the candidate has on the psychological scale?

12 / 15

Consider the partial profile chart below and text taken from a final integrated report below that. Some of the text is incorrect/not acceptable. Use all of your skills developed on the course to choose the 2 snippets of text that are incorrect/not acceptable.

Jane has a preference to consult others before making decisions. For example, 2 weeks ago she was asked to report to her manager regarding possible departmental changes. Prior to the meeting, she contacted each of her team members for their comments.

Jane very much dislikes having to adapt her behaviour to suit different circumstances and people. She agreed with this and mentioned that with 32 years of experience in this role she has her way of doing things and feels this is tried and tested. Last month she came under scrutiny from a new manager who accused her of being inflexible and has asked her to try to work on being more flexible based on the needs of the environment.

Jane's group affiliation is just outside of the average band. She disagreed with this and said she felt a score of 8 or 9 would be better reflective of her. She said people describe her often as the life and soul of the party.

Jane appears to be very much more empathic than others. She agreed with this and said she often cries when others are unhappy.

13 / 15

Listen to the audio feedback. Which Identity scales are being discussed?

Group Affiliation

Independent

Modesty

Psychological

Empathy

14 / 15

Which of the following would help us to avoid the Barnum effect?
Choose all that apply.

Being very general in personality assessment reports

Ensuring that there is evidence in the profile for every point we make in test reports

Changing the language we use in personality reports to reflect the specifics of an individual's test scores

Having a personal item belonging to the test candidate when writing up their report

15 / 15

Which one of these two approaches to understanding others is more valid?

Explicit models

A combination of implicit and explicit models

Implicit models

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