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- 1. Psychological Testing Presented by: Rahul Singh Gusain MSc nursing Ist year
- 2. Introduction • Human psychology can be studied by all the components of personality like attitude, attention , learning and so on. • But to understand people we should have some parameters to judge. • Psychological tests are available that help us to do quantify the data.
- 3. Definition “A psychological test is a structured technique used to generate a carefully selected sample of behavior in order to make influences about the psychological attributes of the people who have been tested.”
- 4. Classification of psychological tests No. of Individual involved Form of test involved Structuredness of test Function of test
- 5. No. of individual involved Individual test • Individual test at a time. • Eg :- Counsellor takes history of a student nurse having adjustment problem in the hostel. Group test • Group test at a time. • Eg :- nurse researcher assess the attitude of Bsc (N) Ist year students forwards nursing profession. Here group of students are involved.
- 6. Form of tests involved Verbal test • Test is used when people are communicating to each other with language. • Tasks to be administered to individual which is performed by test (who is asking)values from simple manipulation to abstract thinking.
- 7. Contd.. Non- verbal test • Performance test and motor in character which is performed by an individual. • Useful for individual with language difficulty , illustrates, handicapped in nature and younger children • Eg:-building blocks or cube construction, picture completion
- 8. Structuredness of the test • Include predetermined set responses /attributes for the question to be asked. • Choice based question answers, just like MCQ Structured test
- 9. Contd.. Non structured /unstructured tests Individual free to choose response Open ended answers Answers further divided into: Disguised test:- psychological interprets the test, in a way other than that of the way subject assumed it would be when responding to it. Non disguised :- Both experimenter and subject have some understanding of the purpose of a test.
- 10. Contd.. Non- structured tests can be •Structured non-disguised •Structured disguised •Non-structured non-disguised •Non-structure disguised
- 11. Function of the test Intelligence tests:- measure mainly capacities for learning and problems solving & abilities to cope with general intellectual problems. Aptitude tests:-measures more specialized abilities in special occupations and activities. Personality tests: designed to reveal some of these characteristics such as thinking , feeling or behaving,.
- 12. Principles Reliability • Internal self consistency of the test. • Consistent of the result when test is administered multiple times on same sample. • E.g :- weighing scale would show same reading on successive occasions Validity • Indicates truth and extent to which test measures what it intends to measure when compared with some outside criterion.
- 13. Psychological tests in use • Binet –Simon/ intelligence quotient test • Termans Stanford Binet testIntelligence tests Consisting of questions and short tasks arranged from easy to difficult the Stanford – Binet scale measures a wide variety of verbal and non verbal skills.
- 14. Binet Scale of human Intelligence
- 15. Wechsler Adult intelligence scale Verbal scale • Picture completion • Block design • Picture management • Object assembly • Test of general information • Test of arithmetic reasoning Performance scale
- 17. Aptitude tests 1. General aptitude test (GAT) 2. Differential aptitude test (DAT) Verbal reasoning Numerical ability Abstract reasoning
- 18. Contd.. Mechanical reasoning Space relations Language usage • Language usage I-spelling • Language usage II- Grammer
- 19. Personality test a) Observation:- situations artificially created in which an individual is expected to perform acts related to personality traits under testing. Eg :- To test persons personality traits like honesty and obedience, artificial situations were created , how a person is response to situation. a) Situational test
- 20. Contd.. c) Interview technique •Structured & unstructured •Planned and unplanned d) Personality inventory •Minnesota multiphasic personality Inventory (MMPI)
- 21. Minnesota multiphasic personality Inventory (MMPI) • Most commonly used test. • Test asks for answers of “true”, ‘false’ or ‘cannot say’ to 567 statements (one for common ) about for different personality traits. • Used by mental health professional to assess and diagnose mental illness. • Used in legal cases including criminal defense and custody disputes.
- 22. Projective technique Pictorial device Thematic apperception test (TAT) Child apperception test (CAT)
- 23. TAT (Thematic apperception test ) TAT taps a subject unconscious to reveal repressed aspects of personality ,motives and needs for achievement power & intimacy problem solving abilities. • What has led up to the event shown? • What is happening at the moment? • What the characteristics are feeling and thinking? • What the outcomes of the story was? Subject asked to tell as story as they can for each picture presented, including the following:-
- 25. CAT(Child apperception test ) Used for children between 3 to10 years. Consist of 10 cards of animals instead of human character. Animals are shown in various life situations
- 26. RORSCHACH INKBLOT TEST • Developed by Harneons Rorschach. • Consist of 10 cards of ink blots. Five of them are in black and white and rest are multicolored. • Ink blots are completely unstructured and do not have any specific meaning. • Subject is asked to identify the picture and how it look like etc. • Then second stage follows to seek clarification.
- 28. VERBAL PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES • Present subjects with an ambiguous verbal stimuli rather than a pictorial one. There are two classes of verbal methods:- a) Word association technique b) Sentence completion technique Expressive method Technique encourage self expression through the construction of some product out of raw materials. Eg :- drawing and painting and role playing.
- 29. VIGNETTES Brief description of an event or situation to which respondents are asked to react. Vignettes are asked with questionnaire or interview schedules to assess respondents hypothetical behavior opinion and perception or knowledge about some phenomenon under study.
- 30. ROLE OF NURSE Nurse can assess the mental functioning or capacity among patient as intelligence test. Good rapport with patient Should reassure the safety of the test and confendentiality. Nursing care plan Can arrange suitable educational program by considering varied individual differences.
- 31. Contd.. Able to recognize behavior by psychological tests Can asses the individual differences by the help of psychological tests Can assess the problematic behavior and its cause . Guidance to child and then parents to develop realistic expectations.
- 32. SUMMARY
- 33. CONCLUSIONS Psychological testing is the comprehensive testing to evaluate the selected sample of behavior which explains the attributes of personality & human behavior
- 34. Bibliography • Amanpreet kaur ,textbook of psychology peeve page -251-256 • R.sreevani A guide to mental health & psychiatric nursing Jaypee 78- 79 • I.clement psychology for post basic B.sc nursing Jaypee -420-424 Internet www.sagepub.com>upm>binaries www.esou.edu>topic01-intro