Lecture 2 Flashcards
battery of tests which are selected and organized to elicit responses, which will reveal certain psychological characteristics consistently and systematically
psychological testing
types of psychological tests
- intelligence or IQ test
- aptitude tests
- achievement tests
- interest tests
- personality tests
measures composite of general and specific abilities such as verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, short-term memory and abstract/logical reasoning
intelligence of IQ test
predict an individual’s ability to learn a skill or what the individual can accomplish with training
aptitude tests
designed to measure how much a child has learned or how much he or she knows about a particular subject area
achievement tests
reveal an individual’s talents or preferences for certain activities
interest tests
provides specific aspects of personality, such as needs, values, attitudes, typical ways of responding to situations and mental disorders
personality tests
types of personality tests:
- self-reports
- projective tests
- objective
- limited
- standardized questionnaires/inventories
- multiple choice
- true-false items
- scales on which people are asked to rate themselves
self-report (standardized) personality test
- unstructured
- based on the psychodynamic assumption
- unconscious conflicts and motivation onto an ambiguous stimulus
projective tests
assessment settings
- educational settings
- counseling settings
- clinical settings
- business settings
- other settings