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Psychological Assessment

The field of psychological assessment encompasses various methodologies and practices aimed at understanding and evaluating human behavior and mental processes. It draws on historical roots from different cultures, including contributions from Chinese and Greek civilizations, and has evolved significantly over time.

Psychological Assessment

Psychological Assessment

A noun is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.

History

Greek
Chinese

Testing

Compound nouns are words where two nouns have been stuck together to make a new noun. Compound nouns should be written as one word, without a hyphen.

Pertain in behaviour
Testing in progress

Designed to measure

Generic nouns are nouns that are part of a generic statement. Generic nouns can be singular or plural. The opposite of generic nouns is collective nouns.

The difference between definite/indefinite and generic nouns is that in the sentence there must be a blanket statement or question.

Human being
Characteristics

Item

A concrete noun is a noun that can be identified through one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell).

Score or Evaluated
Specific stimulus

Main topic

Personality Test

Structured Personality
Projective Personality

Test

Possessive nouns are nouns which possess something, normally another noun.

Prediction of behaviour
Quantify of behaviour

Measurement of Personality

Countable nouns are nouns that can be counted, even if the number might be extraordinarily high.

Uncountable nouns are nouns that come in a state or quantity which is impossible to count; liquids are uncountable, as are things which act
like liquids.

Interest Test
Interviews
Projective Techniques –
Application of Performance or Situational Tests
Personality Questionnaire or Self-Report Inventory

BINET AND THE RISE OF INTELLIGENCE TESTS

Common nouns are words for people, places or things that aren’t specific (as opposed to a proper noun which refers to only one person, place or thing).

Common nouns can be countable or uncountable, singular or plural.

Assessment of personality
Standardized and Achievement test
Aptitude Testing
Army Alpha and Army Beta Tests
Group Testing
1911 Scale
1908 Scale
1905 Scale

THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

Proper nouns are the names of specific people or places. They should always begin with a capital letter.

James McKeen Cattell
Francis Galton

EARLY INTEREST IN CLASSIFICATION AND TRAINING OF MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS

A noun which refers to a group of things/people.

Alfred Binet
Seguin
Esquirol

Purposes of Tests

A noun which cannot be identified by using one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell).

Evaluation
Classification
Selection
Prediction

Interview

Irregular nouns are nouns which don’t follow a spelling pattern when pluralized.

Measurement procedures
Designed apparatuses
Behavioural observation

a corporate human resources specialist
a clinician
a judge,
Subtopic
a counsellor,
a school psychologist,
Teacher
Case studies

Psychological Testing