UNIT 2 NEW Flashcards
utilizing psychological tests that are relevant to the purpose of the assessment & communicating the results to the client & third party that’s only relevant to the referral question
relevancy
Eaxmple of Projective Test
Rorschach Inkblot Test
He questioned the value of timed tests of ability,
particularly those tests that employed multiple-
choice items
Hoffman
a theory of personality and
psychological treatment, symbolic significance is assigned to many nonverbal acts
Psychoanalysis
there may be some things disclosed in your assessment where you need to break confidentiality, in instances where there may be harm to self & others (to police or to guardians)
“limits of confidentiality”
What level of test user qualification
can be proctored by people with no training required and w just adequate instruction
Level A
The rights of test takers (4)
Informed Consent
The right to be informed of test findings
The right to privacy & confidentiality
The right to the least stigmatizing label
Credited with originating the concept of test
reliability as well as building the mathematical
framework for the statistical technique of
factor analysis
Charles Spearman
founded the journal
Psychological Clinic. The first article in that
journal was entitled “Clinical Psychology”
Lightner Witmer
Psychological assessment has proceeded along 2 distinct threads
Academic Tradition, Applied Tradition
“Father of Modern Psychology”
Wilhelm Max Wundt
What level of test user qualification
tests/aids that require some technical knowledge of test construction & supporting psychological & educational fields
Level B
The Frenchman who collaborated with Alfred
Binet on papers suggesting how mental tests
could be used to measure higher mental
processes
Victor Henri
Advantages - respondents are arguably the best-qualified people to provide answers about themselves (rich descriptions)
What is this?
Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory (WPI)
a test used in the educational setting to screen students with intellectual disabilities in Europe, & was translated by Lewis Terman so that it can be used in America
SB-5
Father of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
an APA Committee on Ethical Standards for Psychology, published a report called “Ethical Standards for the Distribution of Psychological Tests & Diagnostic Aids”
Test User Qualifications
developed the 1st intelligence test to identify intellectually disabled Paris schoolchildren in 1905
Theodore Simon & Alfred Binet
1st widely used self-report personality test
Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory (WPI)
This pays particular attention to the symbolic meaning of nonverbal behavior
psychoanalysis
coined & introduced the term “mental test” in 1980 America and was responsible for introducing mental testing in America
James McKeen Cattell