Lecture 2

Question 1

battery of tests which are selected and organized to elicit responses, which will reveal certain psychological characteristics consistently and systematically

Answer 1

psychological testing

Question 2

types of psychological tests

Answer 2

• intelligence or IQ test
• aptitude tests
• achievement tests
• interest tests
• personality tests

Question 3

measures composite of general and specific abilities such as verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, short-term memory and abstract/logical reasoning

Answer 3

intelligence of IQ test

Question 4

predict an individual’s ability to learn a skill or what the individual can accomplish with training

Answer 4

aptitude tests

Question 5

designed to measure how much a child has learned or how much he or she knows about a particular subject area

Answer 5

achievement tests

Question 6

reveal an individual’s talents or preferences for certain activities

Answer 6

interest tests

Question 7

provides specific aspects of personality, such as needs, values, attitudes, typical ways of responding to situations and mental disorders

Answer 7

personality tests

Question 8

types of personality tests:

Answer 8

• self-reports
• projective tests

Question 9

• objective
• limited
• standardized questionnaires/inventories
• multiple choice
• true-false items
• scales on which people are asked to rate themselves

Answer 9

self-report (standardized) personality test

Question 10

• unstructured
• based on the psychodynamic assumption
• unconscious conflicts and motivation onto an ambiguous stimulus

Answer 10

projective tests

Question 11

assessment settings

Answer 11

• educational settings
• counseling settings
• clinical settings
• business settings
• other settings