Psychological Test Types

 Psychological Test:

Psychological Test may Include: 

Individual tests for the evaluation of cognitive and intellectual abilities, examples of which are:

                            (a) The Wechsler series

                           (b) The Stanford-Binet

                           (c) The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children

Individual, objective, and projective tests of personality and emotional states and traits, examples of which are:

                            (a) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

                           (b) The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

                          (c) The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory

                          (d) Projective techniques including:

                                                                    i.            The Rorschach Ink Blots

                                                                  ii.            Thematic Apperception Test

                                                                iii.            The Holtzman Ink Blot

 Individual tests of neuropsychological functioning, examples of which are:

                         (a) The Halstead-Reitan Battery

                         (b) The Luria-Nebraska Battery

                         (c) The "Lezak or Kaplan Battery"

                         (d) The NEPSY

Principles of Psychological Testing

Proper psychological testing is conducted after vigorous research and development in contrast to quick web-based or magazine questionnaires that say "Find out your Personality Color," or "What's your Inner Age?" Proper psychological testing consists of the following:

v  Standardization - All procedures and steps must be conducted with consistency and under the same environment to achieve the same testing performance from those being tested.

v  Objectivity - Scoring such that subjective judgments and biases are minimized, with results for each test taker obtained in the same way.

v  Test Norms - The average test score within a large group of people where the performance of one individual can be compared to the results of others by establishing a point of comparison or frame of reference.

v  Reliability - Obtaining the same result after multiple testing.

v  Validity - The type of test being administered must measure what it is intended to measure.