Question 1

Under current guidelines,what must an employer do if a selection procedure has adverse impact?

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A)   Pay hefty fines.
B)   Eliminate the use of the test.
C)   Demonstrate the procedure's validity in making the inferences the employer wants to make.
D)   Identify potential reasons for the adverse impact and provide remediation to those groups that are adversely impacted.

Question 2

In a California trial,a judge remarked that ignorance and stupidity are two competing explanations for poor test performance.According to the stupidity explanation,poor test performance

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A)   is caused by unstimulating environments.
B)   represents a deficiency that cannot easily be changed.
C)   is caused by culturally biased test items.
D)   is caused by a lack of education.

Question 3

Which viewpoint was not considered in the development of the SOMPA?

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A)   the medical model
B)   the social systems model
C)   the genetic model
D)   the pluralistic model

Question 4

A clear case of test bias is when regression lines describing the relationship between test and criterion for two different groups

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A)   are parallel,but have different intercepts.
B)   have the same slope and the same intercept.
C)   have different slopes.
D)   are based on two different means for the test.

Question 5

Members of certain minority groups are more likely to have positive tuberculosis test results than are majority group members.How have public health workers interpreted this observation?

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A)   Members of those minority groups are more likely to live in an environment in which the spread of tuberculosis is more likely to occur.
B)   Members of those minority groups have genetic predispositions to tuberculosis.
C)   Members of those minority groups have less access to medical care,so simple colds are more likely to become tuberculosis.
D)   Members of minority groups are more likely to be tested for tuberculosis.

Question 6

A test has adverse impact if it

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A)   decreases an individual's self-esteem.
B)   systematically rejects higher proportions of minority than non-minority individuals.
C)   prevents non-minority applicants from being hired.
D)   is used by an untrained administrator.

Question 7

Inner-city children who take the WISC-R may obtain lower scores because

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A)   they have less fluid intelligence.
B)   the city pollution has had a negative developmental impact.
C)   they are not given credit for responses that are appropriate to their environment.
D)   the scoring procedures of the WISC-R are loose and ambiguous.

Question 8

The most clear-cut case of test bias is shown when the regression lines for two groups have ____ slopes and ____ intercepts.

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A)   the same;different
B)   parallel;different
C)   the same;the same
D)   different;different

Question 9

Exhibit 19-1
 
-Refer to Exhibit 19-1.In the above figure,a test score of 6 is associated with a criterion score of approximately ____ for Group A and ____ for Group B.

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A)   5;9
B)   5;5
C)   6;6
D)   8;6

Question 10

What are the underlying assumptions of the SOMPA? What are its components and how are they applied?

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Question 11

Which of the following was a result of the decision by the University of California to reject the SAT-I?

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A)   Fewer qualified students were admitted.
B)   High schools changed their curricula to include more math and essay writing experiences.
C)   The College Board suspended their accreditation.
D)   It became difficult to recruit exceptional students because of questions about the University's academic quality.

Question 12

Which of the following is true of the Chitling Test?

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A)   Criterion validity has been well-documented.
B)   The test lacks predictive validity for both minority and nonminority groups.
C)   There are no longer race-based differences in scores.
D)   The test is not representative of urban African American culture in the 1960s.

Question 13

Which of the following is true of biased test items?

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A)   Items believed to be biased rarely are biased.
B)   Apparently biased test items actually decrease test score differences.
C)   Elimination of biased items does not eliminate test score differences.
D)   It is impossible to eliminate bias because every item is,in some way,biased.

Question 14

The 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures provides

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A)   ambiguous guidelines regarding racial discrimination in hiring practices.
B)   guidelines for the use of psychological tests in education and industry.
C)   rules employers must follow to inform current employees of a newly available position.
D)   employers with the option to use any available testing procedure.

Question 15

The BITCH is predominantly a test of

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A)   intelligence.
B)   reasoning abilities.
C)   word association.
D)   personality states.

Question 16

The SOMPA system includes a physical examination because

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A)   physical skills are related to intelligence.
B)   medical problems can interfere with performance on mental measures and school assignments.
C)   the SOMPA is primarily a physical health evaluation.
D)   its underlying theory is that intelligence is completely biological.

Question 17

Attributing low test scores to "ignorance" suggests

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A)   test performance might be improved by enriching the social environment.
B)   those who do not score well on tests are ignorant and cannot be helped.
C)   that differences between groups on IQ tests result from genetic factors.
D)   placement based on low test scores is justified.

Question 18

The real dispute about racial differences in intelligence test results is

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A)   whether the results actually exist.
B)   why better tests have not been developed.
C)   why the differences exist.
D)   whether the differences can ever be eliminated.

Question 19

Which component of the SOMPA assumes that different subcultures are associated with different life experiences?

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A)   social-system
B)   pluralistic
C)   personal
D)   systemic

Question 20

Flaugher (1978) contends that arguments about test bias were based on misunderstandings because test developers

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A)   are sensitive to the opportunities people have to learn information on a test.
B)   are very concerned about the individual items on a test.
C)   focus on overall test performance and how it correlates with an external criteria.
D)   do not focus as much on test performance.

Exam 6: Test Bias

In a California trial,a judge remarked that ignorance and stupidity are two competing explanations for poor test performance.According to the stupidity explanation,poor test performance

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Which of the following is true of the Chitling Test?

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Which component of the SOMPA assumes that different subcultures are associated with different life experiences?

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Which viewpoint was not considered in the development of the SOMPA?

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The 1978 Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures provides

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The most clear-cut case of test bias is shown when the regression lines for two groups have ____ slopes and ____ intercepts.

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Members of certain minority groups are more likely to have positive tuberculosis test results than are majority group members.How have public health workers interpreted this observation?

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The SOMPA system includes a physical examination because

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Under current guidelines,what must an employer do if a selection procedure has adverse impact?

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What are the underlying assumptions of the SOMPA? What are its components and how are they applied?

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Which of the following is true of biased test items?

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Inner-city children who take the WISC-R may obtain lower scores because

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The real dispute about racial differences in intelligence test results is

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Flaugher (1978) contends that arguments about test bias were based on misunderstandings because test developers

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A test has adverse impact if it

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The BITCH is predominantly a test of

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Exhibit 19-1 -Refer to Exhibit 19-1.In the above figure,a test score of 6 is associated with a criterion score of approximately ____ for Group A and ____ for Group B.

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Which of the following was a result of the decision by the University of California to reject the SAT-I?

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A clear case of test bias is when regression lines describing the relationship between test and criterion for two different groups

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