A perfect score on a particular test is 100. Students’ test…
A perfect score on a particular test is 100. Students’ test score distribution shows a fair amount of spread. Each question is worth five points. The lowest score is 35, the mean is 55, the median is 55, the mode is 55, the standard deviation is 10, and the range is 50. Between what two test scores would one expect to find 68% of the cases in the distribution information provided?
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Madeline is running a weekly group (8-weeks) for women experiencing difficulty in adjusting to motherhood. Participants were previously screened and do not meet the diagnosis for depression, although many members experience feelings of sadness, loss of energy, isolation, and loss of interest. During group sessions, participants spend time engaging each other to explore and identify the challenges and benefits associated with being a new parent, participate in stress-reducing exercises, and discuss and identify goals to which they will commit to reaching. Which type of group is characterized by the scenario presented above?
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A professional counselor is interested in finding a measure that expresses clients’ levels of depression to use in her practice. Specifically, she wants to administer the measure over the course of the counseling at regular intervals to document the efficacy of the intervention she employs. It is important, therefore, that the measure has good test-retest reliability. As she looks through the information available on different publishers’ websites, what statistic, in particular, should this counselor focus on so she can select a measure with the strongest test-retest reliability.
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You are about to begin work with a new client and have received a mailing of testing information from a school psychologist at the child’s school. As you open the materials you see that the WISC-IV intelligence test had been administered to the child earlier that year but due to a clerical slip up, most of the testing information is missing. In fact, all you are able to determine is that the child’s overall IQ score was converted to a standard Z score of 2. What is the child’s IQ score?
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Ryan was participating in a group focusing on stress reduction. During most of the sessions, he had been, for the most part, silent. When confronted about this by another member of the group, he stated that he was listening and internally reflecting on the conversation. He then took issue with being confronted by the group member stating that it was his right to remain silent if he so wished. Which behavior is Ryan displaying in the group?
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