Lecture 3

Question 0

What are different types of intelligence tests?

Answer 0

• individually administered tests
• group tests
• neuropsychology assessments

Question 1

What are the purposes of psych testing?

Answer 1

• classification (selection for ed/jobs, screening, certification, placement)
• coaching/training (insight,career counselling, coaching)
• diagnosis/treatment planning (clinical, educational, neuropsychological deficits)
• research
• program evaluation
• legal applications (diminished responsibility, special dispensation, compensation)

Question 2

What are different personality tests?

Answer 2

• broad omnibus test
• specific tests
• related tests

Question 3

What are different interest tests?

Answer 3

Strong interest inventory
Career assessment inventory
Jackson vocational interest survey

Question 4

What are different aptitude tests?

Answer 4

• wechsler scales
• woodcock johnson
• SATS

Question 5

What are some examples of individually administered tests?

Answer 5

• Stanford Binet IV
• wechsler scales (WAIS, WISC)
• woodcock johnson

Question 6

What are some examples of group administered tests?

Answer 6

• SHL tests (verbal, numerical, abstract)

- Raven’s Progressive matrices

Question 7

What is the history of Standford Binet?

Answer 7

• beginning of intelligence testing
• mental age
• then introduced intelligence quotient (mental age/chronological age)
• now IQ is 100 average, SD 15
• obvious importance of the norm sample

Question 8

What are the 5 subsets of SB 5?

Answer 8

• fluid reasoning (nv- object series/matrices; v- early reasoning, verbal absurdities, verbal analogies)
  -knowledge (nv- procedural knowledge, Picture absurdities; v- vocab)
• quantitative reasoning (nv- quantitative reasoning; v-
  Same)
  -visuo-spatial processing (nv- form board, form patterns; v- position and direction)
• working memory (nv- delayed response & block span; v- memory for sentences, last word)

Question 9

What are some examples of group administered tests?

Answer 9

ASVAB (armed services vocational aptitude battery)
TOEFL (test of English as foreign language)
Selective schools and opportunity tests
GAMSAT and UMAT
Intelligence tests eg Ravens

Question 10

What are the five components of Holland’s vocational interest model?

Answer 10

Realistic
Investigative 
Artistic
Social
Enterprising 
Conventional

Question 11

What type of jobs are ‘realistic’ jobs?

Answer 11

• practical
• physical
• hands on
• tool orientated

Question 12

What type of skills are needed for investigative jobs?

Answer 12

Analytical
Intellectual
Scientific
Explorative

Question 13

What types of skills are needed for artistic vocations?

Answer 13

• creative
  Original
  Independent
  Chaotic

Question 14

What types of skills are needed for social vocations?

Answer 14

Cooperative
Supporting
Helping
Healing/nurturing

Question 15

What types of skills are needed for enterprising vocations?

Answer 15

Competitive environments
Leadership
Persuading

Question 16

What types of skills are needed for conventional jobs?

Answer 16

Detail orientated
Organising
Clerical

Question 17

What parts of applications are involved in job selection?

Answer 17

Ensure matching of selection criteria with job requirements
Job analysis 
Write job description
Tests candidate pool
Select candidate

Question 18

What are different applications in the field of neuropsychology?

Answer 18

• checking for frontal lobe dysfunction
• Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (attention, language, memory, spatial, executive function)
• mini mental state exam