Intelligence & Personality Tests

SB5

Best-known intelligence test in the world and was used as the gold standard

against which all other intelligence tests being developed were validated

SB5

Follows the Cattell-Horn-Carroll heirarchical model of cognitive abilities

45-75 minutes

Full scale battery takes from ____ minutes to administer — SB5

SB5

Can be administered to examinees 2-85 y/o

SB5

Testing begun with two routing subtests (Object Series-Matrices and Vocabulary)

to determine the starting point for the remaining subtests

SB5

Yields a:

• full scale IQ

• nonverbal and verbal IQs

• 5 Factor Indices

• Fluid Reasoning

• Knowledge

• Quantitative Reasoning

• Visual-Spatial Processing

• Working Memory

SB5 five indices:

SB5 Classification:

• WAIS 4 - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale 4th

• WISC 5 - Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children 5th

• WPPSI IV - Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of

  Intelligence

• WASI - Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence

Wechsler Tests:

WAIS 4

Who: Adults (ages 16–90)

• Purpose: Measures adult intelligence (IQ)

WAIS 4

Consists of 15 subtests:

▫ Block Design

▫ Similarities

▫ Digit Span

▫ Matrix Reasoning

▫ Vocabulary

▫ Arithmetic

▫ Symbol Search

▫ Visual Puzzles

▫ Information

▫ Coding

▫ Letter-Number

Sequencing

▫ Figure Weights

▫ Comprehension

▫ Cancellation

▫ Picture Completion

WAIS 4

Provides a:

• Full Scale IQ (FSIQ)

• General Ability Index (GAI)

• Index Scores

• each with a mean of 100 and SD of 15

WISC 5

For ages 6 to 16 y/o , 11 months

WISC 5

Special group studies include score ranges for populations such as those with intellectual disability, ADHD, ASD, and gifted

WPPSI-IV

For children 4 to 6.5 y/o

• can now be administered to children ages 2.6-7.7 y/o

WASI

Takes only 15 to 30 minutes to administer

• For ages 6 to 89 y/o

• Brief measure tied to both the WISC III and WAIS III

WASI

Results are less stable,

• should not be used when a more accurate estimate from a full version is needed

16 PF

Cattell’s Taxonomy

16 PF

• Type: Objective personality test

• Made by: Raymond Cattell

• Measures: 16 personality traits (e.g., warmth, dominance, emotional stability)

• Use: Personality profiling, career guidance

16 PF

Based on the commonsense theory that if a human trait exists, a word in the language would have been developed to describe it

• Now contains 185 items

16 PF

• HSPQ: for high school students 12-18 y/o

• CPQ: for children ages 8-12

NEO FFI

• Type: Objective personality test

• Measures: Big Five traits (OCEAN)

• Shorter version of NEO-PI

• Openness

• Conscientiousness

• Extraversion

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism

BIG 5 Traits NEO FFI:

Draw-A-Person

Developed by Machover and is still used as a clinical assessment tool

• Was developed from Goodenough’s Draw a Man Task used to assess intelligence

Draw-A-Person

It is used as a means for evaluating behavioral or emotional problems

within the context of the clinical interview

Draw-A-Person

Psychodynamically based impulses

would be differentially projected upon female and male persons

HTP

Individual simply draw a house, a tree, and a person, usually on 3 separate sheets of paper

• The individual is asked to describe, define, and interpret each of the drawings

HTP

tends to be used primarily as a way of interactively engaging a client to determine therapeutic intervention

John Buck

HTP developed by?

HTP

Measures aspects of personality and overall neurological & mental functioning

• Object of projection of the client's inner, subconscious world.

empathy, intuition, creativity

Good HTP Interpreters - high in _____, _____, _____ or cognitive flexibility

objective tests

HP must be administered together with ______ ___ to support the interpretations

House Interpretations

• Home-life associations

• Quality of Interfamilial relationships

• Attitudes toward home situation

• At least one door

• One window

• One wall

• A roof

House Drawings by normals:

Trunk

represent the:

• ego

• sense of self

• intactness of the personality

regressive fantasies

Christmas trees after the season is over can mean __________ (thinking about holidays and family and good times to make yourself feel better).

anima / animus

Here, the idea is that the person of the same sex is like you, and the person of the opposite sex is what you may not admit is like you.

• Very Jungian when you think of it, in that the opposite sex is the ____/____

TAT

Developed by Christina Morgan and Henry Murray

based on Murray’s theory of needs

Apperception

to perceive in terms of past perceptions

TAT

Consists of 30 black and white picture cards, and one blank card

• Selection of the 20 depends on the age and sex of the examinee

TAT

Examinee is expected to identify with the hero in their story and project their needs, attitudes, and feelings on this character

• themes

• intensity & duration

• outcomes

Not scored in any objective fashion. Scored according to:

▫ Frequency of various ____

▫ ____ and _____ of the stories

▫ ____ are taken into account

CAT

Consists of 10 pictures and is designed for children 3-10 y/o.

CAT

Uses animals in human social settings

• Children can better identify with animals than humans

Sentence Completion Test

• Type: Projective test

• Task: Finish incomplete sentences

  • Example: “I feel happy when…”

• Measures: Attitudes, emotions, personality

Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank

A person is asked to complete a number of sentence fragments that are related to possible conflicts or emotions

• Consists of 40 sentence fragments

• highschool

• college

• adult

Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank 3 FORMS: