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Project in General Psychology: (Types of Psychological Test)
Project in General Psychology: (Types of Psychological Test)
GENERAL
PSYCHOLOGY
(TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST)
A clinical interview is a tool that helps physicians, psychologists and researchers make an
accurate diagnosis of a variety of mental illnesses, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder
(OCD). There are two common types: Structured clinical
interviews andclinical diagnostic interviews.
EXAMPLES:
1.) INTAKE INTERVIEW are the most common type of interview in clinical psychology. They
occur when a client first comes to seek help from a clinician. The intake interview is important
in clinical psychology because it is the first interaction that occurs between the client and the
clinician.
2.) MENTAL STATUS INTERVIEW the Mental Status Exam (MSE) is the psychological
equivalent of a physical exam that describes the mental state and behaviors of the person
being seen. It includes both objective observations of the clinician and subjective descriptions
given by the patient.
PERSONALITY TESTS
EXAMPLES:
1.) Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities
Age range: 290+ years
How it works: Kids are given a series of tests on a number of topics. These include verbal
comprehension, spatial relations and visual-auditory learning. The tests can take 60 to 90
minutes.
EXAMPLES:
1.) NUMERICAL REASONING TEST-These numerical reasoning tests contain
questions that test your knowledge of Ratios, Percentage Increase/Decrease, Cost and
Sales Analysis, Rates and Trends, and Currency Conversions. Use a calculator.
2.) VERBAL REASONING TEST is the ability to comprehend and reason using concepts
expressed through words. A verbal reasoning test is a form of aptitude test used by
interviewers to find out how well a candidate can assess verbal logic, and how successfully
they can extract the correct meaning from complex written information. In most cases, the
questions will be limited to a passage of text that you must analyse in order to state whether
a given statement is true or false in relation to that passage, or whether you cannot say.
3,) DIAGRAMATIC REASONING TEST (also known as logical reasoning or inductive
reasoning questions) are designed to assess your logical reasoning ability. They consist of multiple
choice questions and are administered under exam conditions.
Many of the aptitude tests that you will face during the job selection process will contain questions of
this type. These questions may either be integrated into a test along with verbal
reasoning and numerical reasoning questions, or they may be presented as a
separate diagrammatic reasoning test paper.
The aptitudes measured by questions that use words and numbers can easily be related to real jobs,
which invariably require some degree of literacy and numeracy. Questions which use figures and
diagrams seem to have very little application to regular professions and yet these types of question
appear in most graduate and management aptitude tests. This is because evidence from psychology
shows that this type of pure reasoning question is less dependent on your educational and cultural
background than either verbal or numerical questions.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
Are specifically designed tasks used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to
a particular brain structure or pathway.Tests are used for research into brain function and in a
clinical setting for the diagnosis of deficits.
EXAMPLES:
1.) INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING-Borderline intellectual functioning, also called borderline
mental disability, is a categorization of intelligence wherein a person has below average
cognitive ability (generally an IQ of 7085), but the deficit is not as severe
as intellectual disability (below 70). It is sometimes called below average IQ (BAIQ).