PSYCH ASSESSMENT Flashcards
Administration Procedures
It requires an active and knowledgeable test administrator.
One-to-one basis
Varieties of Assessment
It is the “in the moment” evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the very time and place that they occur.
(i.e., through smartphones)
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
Varieties of Assessment
It evaluates abilities and skills relevant in school context.
It involves use of evaluative tools relevant to the success of failure.
Educational Assessment
Other Test
It compares an individual’s performance to the performance of a well-defined reference group.
Norm-Referenced Test
Personality Test
It elicit personal beliefs and opinions.
Attitude Test
Testing & Assessment
Highly individualized. More on the process rather than the results.
“why”
Psychological Assessment
The practical value and usefulness of a test relative to the particular purpose.
Psychometric Utility
Other Tests
It is used to evaluate a person’s knowledge and abilities in a specific trade or craft.
Often encountered in vocational training or employment settings.
Trade Test
It focus on practical skills and knowledge specific to a trade.
Other Tests
It is used to evaluate how well your brain functions.
It is a battery of tests designed to measure different cognitive skills and identify potential weaknesses or strengths. (e.g., attention, memory, language, learning, etc.)
Neuropsychological Test
Testing & Assessment
It requires an educated selection of tools of evaluation, skill in evaluation, and thoughtful organization and integration of data from different sources.
Psychological Assessment
Psychological Test
A test that assess what a person can do.
Ability Test
or “Maximal Performance Test”
It is the process of assigning scores to performances.
Scoring
It is the subject matter.
Content
Testing & Assessment
It is used by the psychological assessor.
Psychological Assessment
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It refers to the potential for learning or acquiring a specific skill.
- tend to focus on informal learning
- rely mostly on predictive validity
Aptitude
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It refers to a person’s general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing environments, abstract thinking, and profit from experience.
Intelligence
It is the technical quality.
How consistently and how accurately a test measures what it supposed to measure.
Psychometric Soundess
Personality Test
It provides statement, usually self-report, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative responses.
Structured Personality Tests
Administration Procedures
It does not require a present test administrator. Test takers independently complete the tasks.
Group Testing
Guidelines for Scoring & Interpretation
Some tests comes with:
- Test manuals on which the guidelines are explicitly stated
- Only the stimulus materials (e.g., Rorschach Inkblots)
Personality Test
It is unstructured, and the stimulus or response are ambiguous.
Projective Personality Tests
Psychological Test
It measures individual dispositions and preferences.
- designed to identify characteristic
- measured ideographically or nomothetically
Personality Test
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It is the measurement of the previous learning
measures general knowledge in a specific period of time
- used to assess mastery
- rely mostly on content validity
- fact-based or conceptual
Achievement Test
Tools of Psychological Assessment
It is the method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange.
Interview
Testing & Assessment
Administrators can be interchangeable without affecting the evaluation.
Changing the test user won’t make significant difference in the process.
Psychological Testing
It is a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and this response is being scored or evaluated.
Item
Interview
There are more than one interviewer.
Typically used by HR professionals.
Panel/Board Interview
It is the reference point derived by judgement used to divide a set of data into two or more classification.
Cut-Score
also called “Cut off Score”
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
The considerable overlap of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence test.
Human Ability
Testing & Assessment
The assessor is the key to the process of selecting tests and/or other tools of evaluation.
His skills, knowledge, & experience are vital to the conclusions.
Psychological Assessment
Other Tests
It is a tool used to measure a person’s core values and beliefs.
Values Inventory
Testing & Assessment
It is the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior.
“data”
Psychological Testing
It refers to professional who uses, analyzes, and interprets psychological data.
Psychometrist or Psychometrician
Testing & Assessment
- numerical in nature
- minutes to few hours
Psychological Testing
Tools of Psychological Assessment
It is the device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology (e.g., intelligence).
Psychological Test
Interview
It is used by counselors and clinicians to gather information about some problematic behavior, while simultaneously attempting to address it therapeutically.
It involves a therapeutic conversation with person-centered techniques and cognitive-altering techniques.
Motivational Interview
Testing & Assessment
It is the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation.
“making sense of the data”
Psychological Assessment
Other Tests
It reflects the level of difficulty of items the test takers answer correctly.
Power Tests
Other Test
It is designed to measure an individual’s performance against a predetermined standard or set of criteria.
It focus on absolute mastery of specific skills or knowledge.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Other Tests
The interest is the number of times a test taker can answer correctly in a specific period.
Speed Tests
It is the one-to-one basis or group administration.
Administration Procedures
Testing & Assessment
It yields a test score or series of test score.
Psychological Testing
It is the code or summary of statement, usually but not necessarily numerical in nature, but reflects an evaluation of performance on a test.
Score
Testing & Assessment
It requires technician-like skills in terms of administration and scoring.
Psychological Testing
It is the science of psychological measurement.
Psychometrics
Personality Test
It measures likes and dislikes as well as one’s personality orientation towards the world of work.
Interest Inventories
The Process of Assessment
The assessor and assesse may work as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback.
Collaborative Assessment
Scoring and Interpretation Procedures
It is an informal method used usually by a teacher to derive a cutoff score (e.g., < 65 = failed & > 65 = passed)
Eyeball Method
Testing & Assessment
It entails logical problem-solving that brings to bear many sources of data assigned to answer the referral question.
…through the use of different tools of evaluation.
Psychological Assessment
Guidelines for Scoring & Interpretation
Some tests may require either:
- Self-scoring
- Scoring by computer
- Scoring by trained professionals
The Process of Assessment
It describes an interactive approach to psychological assessment that usually follows the model: evaluation > intervention of some sort > evaluation
- Typically used in educational setting.
- The intervention may take many forms depending on the purpose of assessment.
Dynamic Assessment
Testing & Assessment
It is used by psychological test user.
Psychological Testing
Varieties of Assessment
The subject is not in physical proximity to the person conducting the evaluation.
Remote Assessment
Interview
It is the typical one-on-one interview in physical proximity.
Face-to-face Interview
The Process of Assessment
It involves therapeutic self-discovery and new understanding are encouraged.
A variety of Collaborative Psychological Assessment.
Therapeutic Assessment
It is the subject matter.
Content
It is the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout.
- pencil & paper
- computerized
Format
The Process of Assessment
The nature of assessment is changing, interactive, and varying.
“Dynamic”
Dynamic Assessment
This reference group represents the population for which the test is designed.
Normative Sample
Varieties of Assessment
It draws conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time prior to the assessment.
Retrospective Assessment
Testing & Assessment
Individualized or group. Typically, cumulative in scoring (adding up responses).
“what”
Psychological Testing
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It measures usual or habitual thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
It indicate how test takers think and act on a daily basis.
- use interval scales
- no right and wrong answers
Typical Performance Test
Interview
It is the use of smartphones to gather information about a client who is not in a physical proximity.
Interview can also be conducted through other electronic means.
Interview through Telephones
Interviewing Styles
Questions are prepared.
Standardized/Structured
Interviewing Styles
It pursue relevant ideas in depth.
Non-standardized/Unstructured
Interviewing Styles
It may probe further on specific number of questions
Semi-Standardized/Focused
Interviewing Styles
The subject is allowed to express his feelings without fear of disapproval.
Non-Directive
It determines the mental status of the patient.
x4 oriented (Name, Time, Place, Situation)
Mental Status Examination
It determine why the client came for assessment; chance to inform the client about the policies, fees, and process involved.
Intake Interview
This is the biographical sketch of the client.
Social Case
It determine whether the candidate is suitable for hiring
Employment Interview
Tools of Psychological Assessment
The samples of one’s ability and accomplishment.
Compilation of work products that is typically used in hiring decisions.
Portfolio
Tools of Psychological Assessment
This refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to an assessee.
Case History Data
Case History Data
A report or illustrative account concerning a person or an event that was compiled on the basis of case history data.
Case Study
Case History Data
The result of the varied forces that drive decision-makers to reach a consensus.
Groupthink
Tools of Psychological Assessment
Monitoring of actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions.
Behavioral Observation
Behavioral Observation
Observe humans in natural setting
Naturalistic Observation
Behavioral Observation
It provides a simple framework for observing and understanding the interplay between situations, internal states, responses, and consequences that shape behavior.
SORC Model
Stimulus, Organismic Valuables, Actual Response, Consequence
SORC Model
Represents the situation or antecedent conditions that trigger a behavior.
S (Stimulus)
SORC Model
Refers to the internal state of the person, including their thoughts, feelings, and physiological responses.
O (Organism)
SORC Model
The observable behavior itself.
R (Response)
SORC Model
The outcome or result of the behavior, which can be reinforcing or punishing and can influence future behavior.
C (Consequence)
It is defined as acting an improvised or partially improvised part in a stimulated situation.
Roleplay
Tools of Psychological Assessment
The person (assessee) is instructed to act as if they are in a particular situation. The assessors will then evaluate certain variables and behaviors.
Role-Play Test
Tools of Psychological Assessment
It can serve as highly efficient test administrator (online or offline)
Computers
Computers as a Tool
The scoring is done on-site.
Local Processing
Computers as a Tool
The scoring is done at the central location. Conversion of raw test data is physically transported from the same or other test sites.
Central Processing
Computers as a Tool
The test data is sent to and returned from a central processing facility through electronic means.
Teleprocessing
Scoring Report
It is the mere listing of scores in a test
Simple Scoring Report
Scoring Report
It is a more detailed one that contains statistical analysis.
Extended Scoring Report
This report includes both numerical and narrative interpretation of test scores.
Interpretative Report
This report provide expert opinions concerning the analysis of data and usually written in a way that entails communication between professionals.
Consultative Report
This report integrates data from other sources (e.g., medical records) other than the test itself.
Integrative Report
Computers as Tool
Computers provide assistance to test user and not test taker.
It is used to compute complex mathematical and statistical procedures that were previously done manually.
Computer-Assissted Psychological Assessment (CAPA)
Computers as Tool
The computer has the ability to tailor the test to cater the test taker’s ability or their test-taking pattern.
E.g., After getting a wrong answer, the computer will give the test taker an easier question.
Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)
Psychological Assessment Process
- Determining the Referral Question
- Acquiring Knowledge relating to the content of the problem
- Data collection
- Data Interpretation
This accurately predicts success or failure.
Hit Rate
This is the narrative description, graph, table, or other representations of the extent to which a person has demonstrated certain targeted characteristics as a result of the administration or application of tools of assessment
Profile
This is an approach to evaluation characterized by the application of empirically demonstrated statistical rules as determining factor in assessors’ judgement and actions.
Actuarial Assessment
This is an application of computer algorithms together with statistical rules and probabilities to generate findings and recommendations.
Mechanical Prediction
