Across
- 1. Scales intended to evaluate mental disorders appear alongside scales that describe characteristics of minority groups.
- 3. A counselor assumes an international student cannot speak English well and reads questions in a clinical interview slowly.
- 5. The meaning of test items is not the same for all cultures being tested.
- 8. The interpretation of variables for the group being tested differs when compared with the norm group.
- 9. Clients from an Asian culture may have been socialized to not disagree with an authority and thus may agree with most or all items on an assessment.
- 11. The use of timed tests is not familiar to a particular culture.
- 12. Items with negative connotations reference minority groups.
- 13. Test results are used inappropriately for employment or college admissions. Results lead to differential prediction for any minority group.
Down
- 2. An examiner’s interpretation of assessment results provides an unfair advantage or disadvantage to a client.
- 4. A depression assessment includes few items that represent somatic complaints which may be typical of Asian Americans presenting with depression.
- 6. The word toboggan on a verbal analogies test might favor people from rom northern states over those from southern states.
- 7. A student not familiar with timed tests may not understand at what pace to respond to test items on the GRE.
- 10. A counselor asks a client what gender the client identifies with, offering only male and female as options.