BASIC CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT Flashcards
The Psychology Act of 2009
RA 10029
I. PSYCHOLOGIST VS. PSYCHOMETRICIAN
Administer and score objective personality tests, excluding projective tests and other higher level of psychological tests
Psychometricians
I. PSYCHOLOGIST VS. PSYCHOMETRICIAN
Interpret results and prepare written reports
Psychometricians
I. PSYCHOLOGIST VS. PSYCHOMETRICIAN
Conduct preparatory intake interviews for psychological intervention sessions
Psychometricians
I. PSYCHOLOGIST VS. PSYCHOMETRICIAN
Are qualified to deliver psychological services that include Psychological Interventions such as counseling, psychotherapy, psychosocial support, coaching, psychological debriefing, and group process.
Psychologists
I. PSYCHOLOGIST VS. PSYCHOMETRICIAN
They are qualified to deliver psychological services that include but not limited to Psychological assessment.
Psychologists
I. PSYCHOLOGIST VS. PSYCHOMETRICIAN
Provide psychological programs such as developing, planning, implementation, and evaluation of psychological treatment programs for individuals and/or groups.
Psychologists
Situational Questions and Answers on Psychologist vs. Psychometrician
Anna, a fresh graduate with a degree in Psychology, recently passed the board exam for psychometricians. A client requests her to conduct a psychological debriefing session after a traumatic event. Can she proceed with the session?
Explain your answer.
No, Anna cannot conduct a psychological debriefing session because it falls under psychological interventions, which are services exclusively provided by a licensed psychologist. As a psychometrician, she is* only authorized to administer and score objective tests, interpret results, and conduct intake interviews* under the supervision of a psychologist.
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Carlos, a licensed psychometrician, is asked by his company to develop and implement a mental health treatment program for employees experiencing burnout. Is he allowed to do this independently?
Explain your answer.
No, Carlos cannot develop and implement a psychological treatment program independently because this falls under the responsibilities of a psychologist. Only a licensed psychologist can design, plan, and evaluate psychological programs. Carlos must refer this task to a psychologist or work under their supervision.
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Mia, a psychometrician, is working in a clinical setting and is tasked with administering and scoring a projective test for a client. Her supervising psychologist is unavailable. Can she proceed with the task?
Explain your answer.
No, Mia cannot administer a projective test because psychometricians are only authorized to handle objective personality tests. Projective tests and other higher-level psychological assessments require the expertise of a licensed psychologist. She must wait for her supervising psychologist to handle the assessment.
Situational Questions and Answers on Psychologist vs. Psychometrician
A school principal asks Dr. Rivera, a licensed psychologist, to assess a group of students for possible learning disabilities and provide intervention plans for those identified as at-risk. Can Dr. Rivera do this?
Explain your answer.
Yes, Dr. Rivera, as a licensed psychologist, is qualified to conduct psychological assessments and create intervention plans for students. These responsibilities fall under the scope of a psychologist’s work, which includes assessment, intervention, and psychological program development.
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Mark, a psychometrician, is asked by a client to provide psychotherapy sessions after scoring and interpreting their test results. Can Mark proceed with the request?
Explain your answer.
No, Mark cannot provide psychotherapy sessions because psychotherapy is a psychological intervention, which only licensed psychologists are authorized to perform. He must refer the client to a licensed psychologist for appropriate psychological services.
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Liza, a psychometrician working in a hospital, is asked by a psychiatrist to conduct an initial interview with a patient before referring them for therapy. Can she perform this task?
Explain your answer.
Yes, Liza can conduct the initial interview because psychometricians are authorized to perform preparatory intake interviews for psychological intervention sessions.
However, she must do this under the supervision of a licensed psychologist, who will take responsibility for the integrity of the report.
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A private company asks Miguel, a licensed psychologist, to create a coaching program to enhance employee motivation and performance. Is he allowed to do this?
Explain your answer.
Yes, Miguel, as a licensed psychologist, can develop and implement coaching programs since coaching is a recognized psychological intervention. This falls within his scope of practice under RA 10029.
Situational Questions and Answers on Psychologist vs. Psychometrician
Karen, a psychometrician, administers a set of objective personality tests and provides her client with an official assessment report under her name. Is this allowed?
Explain your answer.
No, Karen cannot independently issue an assessment report under her name. All psychological assessment reports must bear the signature of a supervising licensed psychologist, who is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the results.
Situational Questions and Answers on Psychologist vs. Psychometrician
A school is looking for someone to conduct group counseling for students struggling with stress. They consider hiring a psychometrician to facilitate the sessions. Is this appropriate?
Explain your answer.
No, a psychometrician cannot conduct group counseling sessions, as this is considered a psychological intervention. Only a licensed psychologist is qualified to provide counseling and other therapeutic services. The school should hire a psychologist instead.
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Jake, a licensed psychometrician, is working in a mental health clinic. A client asks him to explain the results of their psychological test and provide recommendations for therapy. Can he do this?
Explain your answer.
Jake can interpret the results and explain them to the client, as psychometricians are authorized to do so.
However, he cannot provide therapy recommendations, as this falls under psychological intervention, which only a licensed psychologist can perform. He should refer the client to a psychologist for further guidance.
II. TESTING VS. ASSESSMENT
is the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior.
Psychological Testing
II. TESTING VS. ASSESSMENT
Systematic, objective procedure for obtaining sample of behavior relevant to cognitive or affective functioning, and for scoring and evaluating those samples according to standards.
Psychological Testing
II. TESTING VS. ASSESSMENT
is the gathering and integration of psychology- related data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation that is accomplished through the use of tools such as tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral observation, and specially designed apparatuses and measurement procedures.
Psychological Assessment
Situational Questions and Answers on Psych Testing vs. Psych Assessment
A school counselor wants to determine the intelligence level of a group of students. She administers a standardized IQ test and scores their responses. Is this psychological testing or psychological assessment?
Explain your answer.
This is psychological testing because it involves administering a standardized test to measure a specific psychology-related variable (intelligence) and scoring it objectively.
However, if the counselor integrates the test results with other sources of information, such as behavioral observations or interviews, it would become part of a broader psychological assessment.
Situational Questions and Answers on Psych Testing vs. Psych Assessment
A clinical psychologist is evaluating a client for possible depression. In addition to using a depression scale, they conduct an in-depth clinical interview, review the client’s history, and observe their behavior in different settings before making a diagnosis. What process is being used?
Explain your answer.
This is psychological assessment because it involves gathering and integrating multiple sources of data—test results, interviews, behavioral observations, and case history—to make a comprehensive psychological evaluation.
Psychological testing is only one part of this broader assessment process.
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A company wants to hire employees with strong problem-solving skills. They administer a reasoning ability test to all applicants and score their responses to determine eligibility. Is this psychological testing or assessment?
Explain your answer.
This is psychological testing because the company is using a standardized procedure to measure a specific cognitive ability (problem-solving skills) and objectively scoring the results.
If they also included structured interviews, personality assessments, and behavioral observations to make a well-rounded evaluation, it would be considered psychological assessment.
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
It is believed that tests and testing programs first came into being in __ as a means of selecting who, of many applicants, would obtain government jobs.
China
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Individual Differences
Who is credited with devising or contributing to the development of psychological assessment tools such as questionnaires, rating scales, and self-report inventories?
Francis Galton
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Individual Differences
Who coined the term “mental test” in an 1890 publication?
James McKeen Cattell
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Individual Differences
Which psychologist completed a doctoral dissertation on individual differences in reaction time?
James McKeen Cattell
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Individual Differences
Who is considered an influential contributor to the field of measurement due to his efforts to explore and quantify individual differences?
Francis Galton
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Individual Differences
Which psychologist’s work laid the foundation for many contemporary psychological assessment tools
?
Francis Galton
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Who developed the product-moment correlation technique?
Karl Pearson
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Who founded the first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig?
Wilhelm Max Wundt
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Who originated the concept of test reliability and built the mathematical framework for the statistical technique of factor analysis?
Charles Spearman
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Which French psychologist collaborated with Alfred Binet on papers suggesting of using mental tests to measure higher mental processes?
Victor Henri
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Who was an early experimenter with the word association technique or free association test for psychiatric patients?
Emil Kraepelin
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Who is known as the “little-known founder of clinical psychology”?
Lightner Witmer
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSY TESTING - Exp Psych and Factor Analysis
Who succeeded James McKeen Cattell as the director of the psychology laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania?
Lightner Witmer
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
Who termed what is now known as “mental retardation” and concluded that language is the most dependable criterion of intellectual level?
Jean Etienne Esquirol
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
Who introduced the “physiological method of training” to assess, educate and evaluate individuals with mental disabilities?
Seguin
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
was formed with his “physiological method of training” in which employs sense training and muscle training techniques to assess intelligence of individuals with mental retardation.
The Seguin Form Board
(non-verbal tests)
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
Who developed the first major general intelligence test in collaboration with Theodore Simon? His early effort launched the** first systematic attempt to evaluate individual differences in human intelligence**.
Alfred Binet
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
What is the name of the first intelligence test published in 1905 by Binet and Simon which contained 30 items of increasing difficulty and was designed to identify intellectually subnormal individuals?
Binet-Simon Scale
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
Who revised the Binet test in 1916 and introduced the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?
Lewis M. Terman
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
Who proposed the concept of intelligence quotient (IQ) (Mental age/Chronological Age x 100) in which a mental level can be calculated to represent quality of performance in 1911?
William Stern
III. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCH TESTING - Measurement of Intelligence
Who introduced the first intelligence test designed for adults, later known as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
David Wechsler
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Group Testing Movement
Who was the president of the American Psychological Association (APA) during World War I and headed the committee of psychologists that developed the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests (military intelligence tests)?
Robert Yerkes
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Group Testing Movement
During which war did the U.S. Army request psychological testing to assess military recruits?
World War I
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Group Testing Movement
What was the name of the structured intelligence test developed for military recruits who had reading ability?
Army Alpha
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Group Testing Movement
What was the name of the intelligence test designed for illiterate adults in the military?
Army Beta
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Measurement of Personality
Who chaired the government Committee on Emotional Fitness that developed a measure for assessing adjustment and emotional stability in military recruits?
Robert S. Woodworth
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Measurement of Personality
What was the name of the questionnaire designed to screen recruits for emotional instability and symptoms of psychopathology?
Personal Data Sheet
It was named like that to disguise the true purpose of it.
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Measurement of Personality
What was the main purpose of the Personal Data Sheet during World War I?
To identify seriously disturbed men or those with symptoms of psychopathology, such as shell shock, to disqualify them from military service.
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Measurement of Personality
What was the name of the personality test developed by Robert S. Woodworth for civilian use after World War I?
Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Measurement of Personality
This is a method of assessment that would soon be employed in a long line of succeeding personality tests.
self-report test of personality
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Measurement of Personality
What was the first widely used self-report test of personality?
Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Filipino Psychology
Who published the PhD dissertation titled “Philippine Studies in Mental Measurement” in 1926?
Manuel L. Carreon
II. BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING - Filipino Psychology
Which psychologist developed the Philippine Thematic Apperception Test in the 1960s?
Alfredo V. Lagmay
IV. SOME ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another
Trait
IV. SOME ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
distinguish one person from another but are relatively less enduring (Chaplin et al., 1988).
States
IV. SOME ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
What does the presence of error in assessment suggest about psychological testing?
That no psychological test is completely error-free, and results should always be interpreted with caution.
