Psychological Testing

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
I. Types of assessments
II. Classification tests
III. Format of studying the psychological tests & testing
IV. Factors influencing the psychological testing
V. Specific tests
TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS
1. Assessment of Cognitive functions
2. Assessment of personality and interpersonal relationship
3. Diagnostic assessments.
4. Neuropsychological assessments
5. Vocational assessments, assessments of interests and

Aptitudes.
6. Behavioral assessment
Reliability- consistency/ dependability of the result
Validity – whether the test is going to measure what actually it is

intended to measure.
CLASSIFICATION OF TESTS
Sl. Name of Categories
no the test
Verbal Non Structured Semi Projective Children Adults

verbal structured
1 Knox - + + - - + +
cube
2. Colour - + + - - + +
& digit
cance.
3 BGT - + + - - + +
4 PGI + + + - - + +
5 BVRT _ + + - - + +
6 WMS + + + - - - +
7 Gessell + + + - - + -
8 VSMS + - + - - + -
9 DST + - + - - + -
10 SFB - + + - - + -
CLASSIFICATION OF TESTS
Sl. Name of Categories
no the test
Verbal Non Structured Semi Projective Children Adults
verba structured
l
11 RPM - + + - - + +
12 BKT + + + - - + _
13 Bhatia - + + - - _ +
14 WISC + + + - - - +
15 WAIS - + + - - - +
16 EPI + - + - - - +
17 16 PF + - + - - - +
18 CAT + - - + + + -
19 TAT + - - + + - +
20 Rorschach + - - - + + +
21 Willoughby + - + - - - +
22 SCT + - + + + - +
FORMAT OF STUDYING THE
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS & TESTING
1. Name of the author and year of test development
2. Rationale
3. Description of the procedure
4. Description of the scoring and interpretation

methods
5. Indications and contra indications
6. Reliability and Validity

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSESSMENT
1. Education
2. Occupation
3. Sex
4. Socio- cultural background
5. Interest
6. Motivation
7. Co-operation
8. Physical or sensory impediments
9. Clinical attitude of the clinician

ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
1. Attention and concentration:
• Cognitive process in which a specific stimulus will be selected, filtered
among the existing stimuli.
a. Knox cube imitation test – Knox, H.A. 1914
b. Color and digit cancellation test
2. Perception
• Cognitive ability in which the objective entity will be subjectively
interpreted meaningfully.
Bender Visio-motor Gestalt test – Lauretta bender, 1938
3. Memory and Learning
• Memory refers to the ability of animals & people to acquire, retain &
use the information or knowledge (Tulving, 1987)
(i) Weschler’s Memory Scale - 1948
(ii) PGI memory scale – Persahad & NN Wig, 1987
(iii) Benton’s Visual retention test – 1955
Three types of memory –

Sensory memory, Short term memory, Long term memory,
ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS
4. Intelligence - concept of IQ, MA & CA
(i) 3 F.F.B. – part of Gessell’s schedule
(ii) Gessell’s developmental schedule (1949)

infant schedule & preschool schedule.
(iii) Vineland social maturity scale

Edger A. Doll – 1965 ( Western )& Malin, A J -1971( Indian)
(iv) Developmental screening test - Bharathraj, J- 1982
(v) Seguin Form Board Test – Arthur & Grace -1933

( taken from Arthur Point Scale of performance tests)
(vi) Raven’s Progressive matrices

(Colour – 1947,Standard - 1938 and Advanced - 1947)
(vii) Binet Kernath Test of Intelligence (B.K.T.)- 1936

( Indian version of Binet scale-1911)
( Viii) Bhatia’s Performance Test Battery of Intelligence – 19
(ix) WISC – 1949 ( total 11 subtests – 6 performance and 5 verbal)
(X) WAIS - 1939 – Provision for Deterioration Quotient.

ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY
Personality
The dynamic organization within the individual of those
psychophysical systems that determine his characteristic
behavior & thought ( Allport, G. 1961)
(I) Eysenck’s Personality inventory - 1953
(ii) 16 Personality factor questionnaire – Cattell, R. B. 1956-57

ASSESSMENT OF INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP
(i) CAT – Children’s Apperception test

( Bellack & Bellack – 1944.
(ii) TAT – Thematic apperception test – 1943 ( Murry, H.A. –

Western version & Uma Chowdhery- 1978- Indian version
(iii) RCPT – Raven’s Controlled Projection test

( Used for children)
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
(i) Rorschach Ink – Blot Test – ( projective test)

Hermann Rorschach – 1921 ( A Swiss psychiatrist)
(ii) Sentence completion Test – Sax’s & Rohde – 1957
(vi) Willoughby’s questionnaire

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PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

II. Classification tests

III. Format of studying the psychological tests & testing

IV. Factors influencing the psychological testing

1. Assessment of Cognitive functions

2. Assessment of personality and interpersonal relationship

5. Vocational assessments, assessments of interests and

Reliability- consistency/ dependability of the result

Validity – whether the test is going to measure what actually it is

Verbal Non Structured Semi Projective Children Adults

3. Description of the procedure

4. Description of the scoring and interpretation

5. Indications and contra indications

6. Reliability and Validity

4. Socio- cultural background

8. Physical or sensory impediments

9. Clinical attitude of the clinician

Three types of memory –

(i) 3 F.F.B. – part of Gessell’s schedule

(ii) Gessell’s developmental schedule (1949)

(iii) Vineland social maturity scale

(iv) Developmental screening test - Bharathraj, J- 1982

(v) Seguin Form Board Test – Arthur & Grace -1933

(vi) Raven’s Progressive matrices

(vii) Binet Kernath Test of Intelligence (B.K.T.)- 1936

( Viii) Bhatia’s Performance Test Battery of Intelligence – 19

(ix) WISC – 1949 ( total 11 subtests – 6 performance and 5 verbal)

(X) WAIS - 1939 – Provision for Deterioration Quotient.

(I) Eysenck’s Personality inventory - 1953

(ii) 16 Personality factor questionnaire – Cattell, R. B. 1956-57

(i) CAT – Children’s Apperception test

(ii) TAT – Thematic apperception test – 1943 ( Murry, H.A. –

(iii) RCPT – Raven’s Controlled Projection test

(i) Rorschach Ink – Blot Test – ( projective test)

(ii) Sentence completion Test – Sax’s & Rohde – 1957

(vi) Willoughby’s questionnaire

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