PSY598 Flashcards
Testing and Assessment (125 cards)
Psychological Assessment
An objective procedure for sampling and quantifying human behaviour describes
how a person thinks, acts and feels
Organisational Testing- Purpose
Diagnosis -What to do next
What to focus on – (to use resources time money personnel -wisely)
As a benchmark for a longterm project research
To help Individuals develop and change
To recruit the best possible person for the role
Organisational Testing Methods
Benchmark: Quantitative standard
Best Practice: Qualitative standard
HR Audit: cultural functional and effectiveness factors
Organisational Types of Assessment
Observation Questionnaires and Surveys Interviews Focus groups Tests and inventories Existing data – turnover absenteeism data safety stats etc
Hollands Theory
People search for environments that will let them use their skills and abilities express their attitudes and values behaviour is determined by an interaction between personality and the characteristics of environment. TYPES: Realistic Investigative Social Conventional Enterprising Artistic
Criticism of Educational Testing
Serves to perpetuate SES differences no evaluation of soft skills- teamwork, leadership, emotional IQ- are important (if not more) in determining academic success
UMAT: measures reasoning, and intrapersonal skills but does not better than school grades in predicting outcomes in medical training
Organisational: Selection Tools
Application (resume/ cv) Biodata Psych Test Work Sample Interview Reference Checking
Steps in a Clinical Interview
1 Referral question
2 Case History Data
3 Mental Health Examination
4 Psychological Testing (if needed)
Mental Status Examination
an assessment of a patient’s level of cognitive (knowledge-related) ability appearance emotional mood speech and thought patterns at the time of evaluation used in psychiatry neurology gerontology
Components of MSE
Appearance Behaviour Speech Mood Affect Thought form Thought content Perceptions Cognition Insight and Judgement
Assessments Used in Clinical Settings
Intelligence: WAIS Personality: MMPI
Psychopathology: Personality Assessment Inventory/ Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory
Depression and Anxiety: Becks Depression/ Anxiety Index State-Trait Anxiety Index
Hallucination vs. Illusion
Hallucination: False sensory perception
Illusion: misinterpretation of actual stimuli
Derealisation vs. Depersonalisation
Derealisation: The feeling that ones surroundings are not real
Depersonalisation: a state in which one’s thoughts and feelings seem unreal or not to belong to oneself estranged from the body
Summative Assessment
purely evaluative function- (end of year exam)
Formative Assessment
an assessment aimed at facilitating and evaluating learning
Educational Aptitude Test & Why?
WISC WHY? Giftedness Special needs Admissions
Clinical Interview
technique for collecting info about a client psychoanalytic- detailed exploration of the personal family history pyschosocial development conflict defence self interpersonal processes
Behavioural Assessment- Methods of Analysis
Frequency: # of times behaviour occurs
Duration: time behaviour occurs
Interval: observation time partitioned into small intervals
Behavioural Assessment: The Observed
Antecedent
Behaviour (duration frequency intensity)
Consequences (reinforcement: punishment/reward)
Behavioural Assessment: The Observer?
Individual
Significant other (parent/teacher/ partner)
Objective observer
Electronic device (video recorder)
Behavioural Assessment
Method of data collection (Skinner) observing covert behaviour (direct observation self-report checklists questionnaires checklists and interviews significant-other ratings)
MMPI
assesses major patterns of personality and emotional disorders using empirical-keying approach 567 items
Social Cognitive Approach to Personality
examines the relationship between peoples behaviour the situations in which these occur and their cognitions about them
Multivariate (trait) Approach to Personality
Personality oldest approach- number of dimensions of individual differences that people have in common and that serve to specify the individual’s personality