The Test Items in an Interpretive Exercise Are Most Effective

question 20

Multiple Choice

The test items in an interpretive exercise are most effective if they include which of the following qualities?

• A)they are answered directly from the introductory material
• B)they can be answered without any additional information
• C)they contain only two alternatives
• D)they require more than the recall of information to answer

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Definitions:

Absolute Threshold

The minimum intensity of a stimulus that one can detect 50% of the time.

Subliminal

Below one’s absolute threshold for conscious awareness.

Adaptive

Describing an organism or system that can adjust to changes in its environment or circumstances.

Signal Detection Theory

A method for measuring the capacity to distinguish between patterns that carry information and those random patterns that obscure the information.