Grand Canyon University PSY 550 Midterm Exam 3 Q&A (100% CORRECT) *ACE IT

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PSY 550 Final Exam Short Answers The 20 questions below are worth 4 points each. 1. A school psychologist strongly believes a particular child is in need of special services. What is the psycholog... ist trying to control for if he or she uses the most recently normed test available? The psychologist is trying to help the child develop a proper educational program or curriculum in order to ensure the best and most effective educational process for the child. 2. What are two benefits of the WASI? The WASI helps determine if an in-depth intellectual assessment is needed and helps reassess after a comprehensive evaluation. Additionally, it helps estimate Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) scores in busy practice settings, while it assesses cognitive functioning of individuals referred for psychiatric evaluations. 3. Identify three improvements of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III. The WAIS–IV offers precision and simplicity in one comprehensive battery combined with the enhanced utility that results from the rigorous collection and stratification of normative data that is the hallmark of Wechsler tradition. Additionally, in their commitment to excellence, they developed a better test to help with changing demographics, shifting clinical needs, emerging research, and increasing caseload. comprehensive battery combined with the 4. Provide one advantage and one disadvantage of group-administered intelligence tests. Group administered tests have a broader application than individual tests; however, the scoring format for most group administered tests is multiple-choice, which is less flexible and yields much less diagnostic information. 5. Give three examples of extra-test behavior on an ability test. 6. Name three recommended uses for the Woodcock-Johnson III. They assess and contrast the performance in a variety of conditions and then draw conclusions about relative strengths and weaknesses in the individual’s use of underlying processes. This comparison of relative strengths and weaknesses among abilities may suggest individual differences in information processing that are important to consider when determining the nature of a learning problem or disability. A detailed understanding of abilities facilitates the development of targeted interventions. [Show More]

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