Psychology and Psychometric

Testing
Avik Sutar
20HS61002

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 What is psychology?

• Psychology is defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental process

• Perception, cognition , attention, emotion, intelligence, subjective

experiences, motivation

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 Psychometrics

• Field of study about technique of measuring and

mapping the psychological makeup of a human
being

• Includes the measurement of knowledge,

abilities, attitudes, personality traits

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 What are psychometric tests?

• A psychological test is a structured

technique to generate carefully
selected sample of behavior.

• Used to derive inference about

someone’s behavior on basis of
results of the tests.
Psycho=Mind
Metric =Measure
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 What do psychometric measure?

How well you work with other people

How well you handle stress

Whether you will be able to cope with intellectual demands of the job

Your personality, preferences and ability

Best match of individual to occupation and working environment

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 Kinds of performance
MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE
Tests here relate to our capacity or capability to do certain things. They include tests of intelligence ,aptitude or ability

Have right and wrong answers

Measure the ability of the achievement under strict conditions

Involve certain level of difficulty to enable comparison from person to person.

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 Kinds of performance
HABITUAL PERFORMANCE
Tests attempts to measure characteristics way of behaving. Also involves a consideration of how we perceive the
world , and of attitude, values, and interests. Also called as ‘typical performance’

Are self-descriptive

Indicate the most typical behavior or preferences

Don’t involve right or wrong answers

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 Types of Tests

Ability & Aptitude Tests • Assess capability

Personality Inventories • Assess traits
Intelligence Tests • Assess intelligence
Achievement Tests • Assess degree of accomplishment
Creativity Tests • Assess capacity of novelty
Interest Inventories • Assess preferences for activity
Behavioral Tests • Measures behaviors
Neuropsychological Tests • Measure cognitive, sensory ,perpetual , or motor functions
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 Where can it be used?

Selection of
Assessment
industrial Counseling Market analysis Clinical
Centers
personnel

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 Types of Personality Tests

16 PF
MBTI
Big Five
TAT
Inkblot

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 Types of Intelligence Tests

Group tests Bhatia’s

Ravens Weschler Battery of
Stanford- of Amy
Progressive intelligence performance
Binet test Alpha and test of
Matrices test
Beta Types intelligence

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 The “Big Five”
Openness
01 Creative, curious and cultured (rather than practical
with narrow interests)

02 Conscientiousness
Hardworking, dependable, persistent, and organized (as
opposed to lazy, disorganized, and unreliable).

Extroversion
03
Gregarious, excitability, sociability, talkativeness, high
amounts of emotional expressiveness and assertive (as
opposed to reserved, timid, and quiet).

04 Agreeableness
Good-natured, cooperative, and trusting (rather then cold,
disagreeable, and antagonistic).

05 Neuroticism
Calm, self-confident, and cool (as opposed to insecure,
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