PRACTICAL MPCE -24

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Course Code – MPCE-024
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1. Interviewing Skill Practice 3-6

2. Intelligence Testing (WAIS, Standard 7 - 10

Progressive Matrices)

3. Sentence Completion Test 11 - 13

4. Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) 14 - 16

5. Interest Inventory 17 - 21
 INTERVIEWING SKILL PRACTICE

INTRODUCTION – Counselling is a process where the counsellor helps the

client to understand himself and his situation and accordingly make intelligent
choices, plans and adjustments. It enables the client to take appropriate
decisions. This requires the counsellor to understand the client, his problems
and his situation in a proper perspective. In order to gain an understanding of
the client’s problem, the counsellor needs to first develop an understanding
about the client – his needs, likes, interests, abilities, personality, values and
goals etc. All these information are collected through an interview which is
called History taking or Initial Interview. The counsellor needs to be skilled in
conducting this initial interview a it has significance in terms of getting to know
the client, making the client feel accepted and understood and develop
confidence in the counsellor.

An outline of the initial interview is given below:

1. Identification Data:

Name – Anuj Arora

Age - 24

Sex - male

Education - graduated

occupation – working in private office

marital status - single

2. Information related to the problem:

a) It affects in his professional and personal life.

b) Too much negative thoughts, anxious feelings and behaviour associated with
the problem.

c) Since 1 year he is facing this problem.

d) No particular pattern of events usually lead to the problem. It occurs when do

not able to communicate with anyone.

e) Cannot able to maintain personal and professional life and it leads to loss of
closed ones the client seek counselling.

3. Client’s present life situation:

a) Hectic schedule due to work life in the client’s life.

b) He not so active related to social, religious things.

c) Cannot able to concentrate at anything either related to professional or

personal.

4. Family Setting

a) His age is 24, graduated and occupation of father is working government

clerk and mother is a housewife.

b) The personalities of the father and mother is neutral.

c) Relationship between the father and mother is not so comfortable,

relationship of each parent with the client is not so comfortable and with other
siblings.

d) Number of siblings is one, nisha arora, 20 , female, 1st year college, and
single.

e) There is no any history of long physical or mental illness/disturbances in the

family.
f) Family mobility: They live at Delhi since birth. Family type is nuclear.

5. Personal History:

a) Educational history: He was good at his academics from nursery to college.

He is working in private office and he loves to listen music, suffering social
media and drawing. Relationship is not so good with parents but with siblings
he has a good rapport. Good rapport with teachers.

b) Work experience: Full time job, 9-5 job timing with good targets and
incentives. Relationship with co-workers is good but not so interactive.

c) Medical history: No serious medical history.

d) Marital history: Umarried. He was a girlfriend but broke up recently.

e) Thers is no any previous experience with counselling.

f) client is not currently using drugs/alcohol or has used in the past.

g) No such goals or clearance i have observe in client’s personal or career goals

in life. He is very demotivated.

6. Description of the client during the interview:

a) Temperament: warm and friendly, lethargic, de-motivated

b) Behaviours/mannerisms: communicative, feel loneliness.

c) Body language was normal, facial expression was expressive, postures and
gestures was normal, eye contact was not so intact.

d) Language: fluency was okay, logical, tone of voice was low.

7. Summary:

I have observed that the client was tying to coping up with alots of stress and
lonliness in his life due to recent break up, he was not so open with his parents
but comfortable with his young sister. Unable to talk with anyone he is an
introvert person. Feeling demotivated and self conscious too. Trying to express
but unable to explain things.
INTELLIGENCE TESTING (WAIS, STANDARD PROGRESSIVE
MATRICES)
• Title: Intelligence Testing (WAIS, Standard Progressive Matrices)
• Aims/ Objectives:
This will basically consist of the main objectives or purpose of the test is to
measure intelligence. The basic objective of the test will be: ‘To assess the
INTELLIGENCE TESTING’.
• Introduction:
Wechsler has defined intelligence as “the aggregate or global capacity of the
individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with his
environment.” Alfred Binet, the inventor of modern intelligence test, believed
that intelligent behaviour would be manifested in such mental abilities as
reasoning, imagination, insight, judgement and adaptability. Some
psychologists held the view that all the cognitive abilities (such as abstraction,
learning and dealing with novelty) are the manifestation of a single underlying
factor, called General factor and Specific abilities such as artistic ability,
linguistic ability, mathematical or spatial ability referred constitute specific
factor or s factor. “Intelligence is, conceptually, what it has always been, the
ability to profit from experience-and pragmatically, what it has become-that
which the intelligence tests measure” (Reber & Reber 2001: 361).
• Description of the Test:
Under this, the details with regard to the test are mentioned, like author of the
test, basic purpose of the test, number of items, dimensions/ factors, time limit,
reliability, validity, scoring. Matric booklet contains 60 problems which are
divided into 5 sets namely set A, set B, Set C, Set D and Set E. Each set
contains 12 problems the picture drawn in the booklet is incomplete, you have
to complete it by choosing the right picture options are similar to the question
pictures.
• Materials Required:
The materials required for the administration of the test are mentioned. For
example, the test booklet, answer sheet, scoring key, pencil, eraser.
• Participant’s Profile:
Name - Anushae khan
Age – 27 years
Sex – female
Education – post graduation
Occupation – teacher

• Procedure and administration:

• Preparation : the subject was guided by all the instructions
• Rapport: You will have to mention that rapport was created with the
participant and that s/he was well informed about the details of the test.
Instructions: Instruction as given in the test manual are included here.
• Precautions:
Introspective Report: After completion of the test by the participant, an
introspective report is to be taken from the participant. The report will include
feelings overall experience & difficulties (if any) faced by the participant. The
report is to be written in practicum notebook in first
• Scoring and Interpretation: For scoring, with the help of answer key
answers of all the sets were checked whether the numbers of given answered
correctly or not.
Zero for wrong answer and 1 for the correct answer was given to each
response.
With the help of manual,raw score, expected score and discripancies was
calculated.
After this, the percentile point of the total score was calculated.
At last, the grade was given according to percentile points.
Observation table :
 Obtained score = A 12,B12,C11,D11, E10
Expected score = A 12, B 12, C 12, D 11, E 9
Discripancies = A 0, B0, C-1, D 0, E 1
• Result –
Total score – 56
Discripancies – 0, 0, -1 ,0 ,1
Percentile point – 95
Grade – I

• Interpretation of result –
Set A
Obtained score – 12
Expected score – 12
This was the beginning of the test and the subject was taking interest all
the answers were correct.
Set B
Obtained score – 12
Expected score – 12
The expected score and the obtained score are equal.
Set C
Obtained score – 11
Expected score – 12
It means that the subject was interested in test.
Set D
Obtained score – 11
Expected score – 11
There is no discrepancy. This means that subject was taking interest in
the test and performed well even after increasing the difficulty level of
the set D.
 Set E
Obtained score – 10
Expected score – 9
There is a positive discrepancy. The subject scored more than the
expected score. This means that the subject was interested in doing the
test and despite of increased difficulty level set by set.
• Grade –
The subject grade is I. That means “ intellectual superior”
• Conclusion –
Total score – 56/60
Grade – I
Level – intellectual superior
This test is concluded to know the IQ level of the subject . the subject
scored 56 marks. This means that he posses great cognitive capacity to
encode and analyse information. She is intellectually superior. She really
works hard and is well focused. Her percentile point is P95. Her grade is
I.
• Educational implication –
1. Helpful for scholarship distribution.
2. Helpful for psychological classification
3. Helpful for teaching profession
4. Work distribution
 Sentence Completion Test
Title – Sentence completion test
Aims – to assess the personality traits – sociability, self-confidence and
ambition using sentence completion test.
Introduction - personality is a dynamic organisation within the individual of
these psychophysical system that determine his/her unique adjustments in this
environment. In the most recent definition psychologist Walter Michael (1976)
mentioned both inner and behavioural process. According to this personality
consisted of distinct patterns of behaviours including thoughts and emotions that
characteristic each individual’s adaption in the situations of hisher life.
Personality has been studied by a number of psychologist. Some have put
forward various theories to explain the organism and make up of personality.
Apart from various theories to assess and understand the personality, numerous
tests by psychologists. One of the technique test commonly employed to
comprehend the personality of an individual is sentence completion test.
Description – senetence completion test is a method of presentation of
beginning of sentences which thus asks the subjects to complete the sentences in
any way they would like this method is based on this idea that it will reveal
more about thoughts fantasies and emotional conflicts than testing with direct
questions.
This test falls under the ambit of “projective techniques”. The beginning of
using the formal sentence completion method for personality assessment was in
1928 with Arthur Payne.
This test is divided into 3 traits areas :
a. Sociability – 1,3,4,7,10,11,12,23,29,31,32,34,36,48
b. Self confidence – 2,8,9,16,17,18,21,22,25,27,38,39,40,41,42,44,45,46,49
and 50
c. Ambitious – 5,6,13,14,15,19,20,24,26,30,33,35,37,43 and 47
Material required – sentence completion test booklet, manual of sentence
completion test, paper, pencil and pen.
Subject profile –
Name – khushi kumari
Age – 35
Sex – female
Education – post graduate
Occupation – housewife
Procedure and administration :
Preparation – the material’s required for sentence completion test were
arranged and kept ready.
Rapport building – rapport was established with the subject by having a
conversation.
Instructions – the subject was given proper instructions.
Precautions – subject should not take much time for any response. Subject
should write meaningful sentences. Confidentiality was maintained.
Introspective report – the subject was given all the relevant instruction
before conducting the experiment. The doubts of subject were clarified.
There was no apprehension. The subject was cooperative.
Scoring and interpretation – each sentence is placed under the following
categories – positive, negative and neutral.
The scoring was done after the subject completed the test. Positive sentences
were awarded 2 marks, negative sentences were awarded 1 mark and neutral
responses were given 0 marks.
Subject scored low on social skills and remains withdrawn most of the times
also feels uncomfortable when around people. Average score on self
confidence that subject is not sure of the ambitious, capabilities and
potentials. The subject needs to work upon on self confidence a bit. A high
score on ambitions reflect the subject will to make forward in her career or
pursue her interests.
Overall the score was average the subject needs to work a little bit upond
being more social and having more self confidence.
Reliability –
Method sociability self confidence ambitions total
Split half .72 .69 .73 .62
Test retest .76 .71 .68 .67
Validity –
Traits coefficient of correlation
Sociability .66
Self confidence .73
Ambitions .69
Conclusion – this test was conducted to assess the personality traits.i.e.,
sociability, self confidence, ambitions. The subject assess 21 on sociability,
30 on self confidence and 27 on ambitions and the overall score was 78
indicating on average total score. Though the overall total score is average,
the subject scored low on sociability, indicating withdrawn personality, with
a moderate self confidence, but scored high on ambitious.
The subject need to work a little upon her social skills and needs to further
strengthen her self confidence. Otherwise, the score is fine and the subject
has overall good personality.
 Differential Aptitude Test (DAT)
Aim : to measure the aptitude of an individual using Differential Aptitude Test
(DAT)
Introduction : intelligence is the capacity to understand the world, think
rationally and use the available resources when faced with challenges. It means
to judge between right or wrong. Two domains of intelligence are interest and
aptitude.
Interest is an individual preference for one or more activities relative to the
others. Knowledge of interest helps us in making choices that promote life
satisfaction and performance on jobs.
Aptitude refers to underlying potential for acquiring skills. Aptitude tests are
used to predict what an individual will be able to do if given a proper
environment and training.
Aptitude tests are available in two forms : 1. Independent aptitude (specialised)
and 2. Multiple aptitude test (generalized).
Some important aptitude tests are clerical aptitude, mechanical aptitude,
numerical aptitude and typing aptitude. Multiple aptitude tests exist in the form
of test batteries, which measures aptitude in several areas. Differential aptitude
test (DAT), aptitude tests battery (GATB) are well known aptitude test
batteries.
Among these DAT is the most commonly used in the educational settings. It
consist of 8 independent sub-tests, thse are as follows :
a. Verbal reasoning – skills involved in production and usage of language.
b. Numerical reasoning – skills in scientific thinking and problem solving.
c. Abstract reasoning – ability to find hidden solution to a situation.
d. Clerical reasoning – measures reflex actions of an individual.
e. Mechanical reasoning – involve logical and abstract reasoning.
f. Space relations – skills in forming visual images and patterns.
g. Spelling – areas involved in verbal aptitude and writing.
Variables :–
Independent variable – in this experiment the independent variable is the
DAT given to the subject.
Dependent variable – in this experiment the dependent is the response given
by the subject.
Material required - questionnaires of verbal and numerical reasoning
manual, scoring key, pen and pencil.
Particulars of subject –
Name – megha gupta
Age – 30 years
Sex – female
Precautions –
1.The subject should be a non- psychology student.
2.The subject should be made to sit comfortably.
3.Calm environment should be provided to the subject.
4.The materials required for conducting the experiment should be arranged
beforehand.
5. proper instructions should be given to the subject.
Instructions –
1. Numerical ability – i am providing you with numerical ability MCQs
along with its answer sheet. Mark the correct answers as per your choice
in the answers heet please don’t mark anything on the question sheet.
You need to complete the test within 30 minutes.
2. Verbal reasoning – now i am giving you a verbal reasoning test along
with its answer sheet. Please don’t mark anything on the question sheet.
For this test you need to complete the test within 30 minutes.
Procedure performed – all the materials required were brought beforehand.
Subject was made to sit comfortably and in calm environment. Afterward the
subject can start the test.
The instructions mentioned above and then provided with the numerical
ability test after completing this test. She was given 10 minutes test and then
after provided with another test verbal reasoning test after the test was
completed, the answer she was taken back with the help of manual the
percentile rank of the individual was drawn. Then the whole result shared
with the subject.
Result and discussion – to get the raw score is calculated using the scoring
key and then the following pattern according to DAT is applied
Raw score = R- 1/4 x w
R = RIGHT ANSWER
W=WRONG ANSWER
Right answers are calculated using right answer scoring key and the right
answers obtained are and as it is same with wrong answers too.
Raw score = 25
Percentile rank = 75
Raw score according to manual for verbal reasoning = 10
Percentile rank = 5
 INTEREST INVENTORY
Aims - to help to guide the students and the employees into areas where they
are likely to find the greatest job satisfaction.
Introduction – the strength and direction of the individual’s interest represents
an important aspect of his personality. This characteristic effects his
educational and vocational pursuits. Therefore, the study of interest has received
its strongest impetus from vocational and educational counselling.
The interest inventories are designed to help guidance and vocational counsellor
to guide the students and the employees into areas where they are likely to find
the greatest job satisfaction. It is not a measure of general or specific abilities
including intelligence. Such traits are related to man’s performance on the job
than to his satisfaction on the job. These factors or traits like aptitude, abilities,
intelligence and personality should be determined by others means and should
be considered along with the interest scores.
One of the major functions of any vocational guidance programme is to help an
individual to prepare him for a right vocational choice which would go well
with his developed abilities, aptitude, intelligence present situation. It should
also contribute to his individual happiness and social good, because occupation
is not just a means of livelihood but also a way of life. Vocational guidance is
related to one acquisition of knowledge, understanding and skill which actually
form the basis for his vocational choices. According to super and crites (1962),
“vocational guidance is a process of helping a person to develop and accept an
integrated and adequate picture of himself and his role in the world of work, to
test this concept against reality with satisfaction to himself and to the benefit of
society”.
Description – comprehensive interest schedule is well adapted to vocational
guidance and counselling situations. It is a check list by which a person can
systematically clarify understanding of his vocational interests. It is designed as
a counselling instrument to be used in the situations in which the client
counsellor relationship is such that straight forward and honest expression of
choices can be expected. Here, the subject expects his interest to be considered
and he is not threatened as he might be by the personality or ability test. The
interpretation, when given, carries considerable force because the student can
see that he is looking at himself in a mirror, and that he is only receiving are
analysis of what he himself has said as no psychological mysterious surround
this interest schedule.
Comprehensive interest schedule is an objective device representing relative
interest in eight broad vocational areas. Each one of these vocational areas have
two sub fields. These eight broad interest areas are as following:
1. Influential – administrative, Enterprising
2. Venturous – sports
3. Artistic – creative, performing
4. Scientific – medical, technical
5. Analytical – expressive, computational
6. Social – humanitarian, education
7. Nature
8. Clerical
So, in total we have fourteen occupational interest areas which are
compared twice with each of the other interest areas.
Reliability – the term reliability has two closely related but somewhat
different connotations in psychological testing. First it refers to the extent
to which a test is internally consistent i.e. consistency of rest obtained
throughout the test when administered once, known as split half
reliability second, reliability refers to the extent to which a measuring
device yields consistent results from testing and retesting i.e.
dependability for predictive purposed known as test retest reliability.
 Interest area co efficiency of reliability
Split half test- retest
1. Influential
a. administrative .92 .73
b. enterprising .91 .79
2. venturous
a. defence .88 .72
b.sport .84 .67
3. artistic
a. creative .94 .75
b. performing .90 .72
4. scientific
a. medical .93 .80
b. technical .91 .77
5. analytical
a. expressive .87 .67
b. computational .89 .68
6. social
a. Humanitarian .86 .71
b. education .91 .68
7. nature .85 .62
8. clerical .87 .64
N 550 225

Validity – it should be clear that validity is in fast evaluation of the extent to

which a device estimated an individual’s status at the time the test was
administered. From the viewpoint of applied psychology, every test must have
high predictive validity. This is possible only when the reliability scores of the
scores are high. The present interest scale shows very high reliability scores,
and hence it can be concluded here that the comprehensive interest schedule has
high predictive validity.
Material required – comprehensive interest schedule test booklet and manual,
pen, pencil, eraser and answer sheet.
Subject profile –
Name – angel gomes
Age – 18 years
Sex – female
Procedure and administration –
Preparation – the material’s required for CIS test were arranged and kept
ready.
Rapport formation – rapport was established with the subject by having a
conversation. The subject was aware about the confidentiality of results and
made comfortable.
Instructions – the subject was given proper instructions. The subject was told
that he/she has to complete in minimum time.
Precautions –
a. subject should not take much time for any response.
b. Subject should write carefully.
c. Confidentiality is maintained.
Introspective report –
The subject was given all the relevant instructions before conducting the
experiment. The doubts of subject were clarified. Subject felt at ease during the
test expect at few places where she could not understand few items. Her doubts
were cleared.
Scores –
She has scored the following STEN scores –
Adm – 1
Ent – 4
Def – 1
Sp – 1
Cr – 10
Per – 9
Med – 1
Tech – 1
Exp – 8
Comp – 1
Hum – 3
Edn – 4
Nat – 1
Cl – 1