Psychological Assessment

Summative test

Test

measuring device or procedure

Psychological Test

device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology

Ability or Maximal Performance Test

This assess what a person can do

Achievement Test

This test measure previous learning

Aptitude

Refers to the potential for learning or acquiring a specific skills.

Intelligence

It refers to general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing environments, abstract thinking, and profit from experience.

Human Ability

Its a considerable overlap of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence test.

Typical Performance Test

This measures usual or habitual thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Personality Test

This measures individual dispositions, and preferences.

Structured Personality Test

This provide statement, usually self report, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative process.

Projective Personality Tests

unstructured, and the stimulus or response are ambiguous

Attitude Test

This test elicit personal beliefs and opinions

Interest Inventories

It measure individual like, dislikes, personality orientation towards the world of work.

Level A

What level: Anyone under supervisor or consultant

Level B

What level: Psychometrician and Psychologist

Level C

What level: Psychologist only

Interview

method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange

True

True or False, can interview be non-directive?

Mental Status Examination

determines the mental status of the patient

Intake Interview

This determine why client came for assessment; chance to inform the client about the policies, fees, and process involved.

Social case

Biographical sketch of client

Panel Interview (Board interview)

more than one interviewer participates in the assessment

Motivational interview

used by counselors and clinicians to gather information about some problematic behavior, while simultaneously attempting to address it therapeutically

Criterion variance

Amount of error caused by vague guidelines for exclusion or inclusion in different categories

Information variance

variability in amount and type of information derived from interviews with clients

Portfolio

Samples of one ability and accomplishment

Case History Data

refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to an assessee

Behavioral Observation

monitoring of actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions

Naturalistic Observation

Observe humans in natural setting

Role play

defined as acting an improvised or partially improvised part in a simulated situation

Role play test

assesses are directed to act as if they are in a particular situation

Interest inventories

Its purpose is for evaluation, drawing conclusions of some aspects of the behavior of a person, therapy, decision-making

Computers

using technology to assess an client, thus, can serve as test administrators and very efficient test scorers

Level B

What level is this: Psychometricians and Psychologists only

Level C

What level is this: Psychologist only

Method of