Psychometric and Neuropsychological Testing Flashcards
____________ is necessary to establish the degree of
mental retardation
intelligence
testing
_______ help
to quantify and localize brain damage
neuropsychological tests
Typically pencil-and-papers tests based on specific items and
questions.
Objective tests
Present stimuli whose meanings are not immediately obvious; some
degree of ambiguity forces people to project their own needs into the
testsituation
Projective tests
They yield numerical scores and profiles easily subjected to
mathematical or statistical analysis.
Objective tests
Have no right or wrong answers
Projective tests
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
Objective tests
Those being tested impute meanings to the stimulus, apparently
based on psychological and emotional factors.
Projective tests
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Draw-a-Person test, the
Rorschach test, and the Sentence Completion Test.
Projective tests
is a measure of present functioning ability,
not necessarily of future potential
IQ
The best standardized and most widely used
intelligence test in clinical practice today.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
WAIS
A scale for children ages 5 through 15 years has
been devised
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
Children
a scale for children ages 4 to 6 ½
years
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of
Intelligence
a self-report inventory, is the most
widely used and most thoroughly researched
objective personality assessment instrument.
Minnesota mutliphasic personality inventory (MMPI)
