Under Which of These Circumstances Would It Be Important for a Psychologist

question 46

Multiple Choice

Under which of these circumstances would it be important for a psychologist to use Raven's Progressive Matrices (or a similar test) instead of, say, the WAIS-III or WISC-IV?

• A) The psychologist wants to record separate verbal and performance scores.
• B) The person being tested has already gotten a high score on the Stanford-Binet IQ test.
• C) The person being tested has just recently begun to learn English.
• D) The psychologist wants to use a test with good reliability and validity.

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