This course is intended to introduce you to adult psychological assessment and to acquaint you with the types of assessment devices used by psychologists. During the semester, you will learn how to administer, score, and interpret a variety of psychological tests and how to write a psychological report using a core set of assessment measures commonly used by counseling and clinical psychologist...

This article integrates those of other contributors to this special section, "Methods and Implications of Revising Assessment Instruments," to underscore important conceptual factors to consider when undertaking test revisions. These considerations include determination of when test measures have become sufficiently understood to be incorporated in a test revision, cohort effects, revision of a...

Measurement bias refers to systematic differences across subpopulations in the relation between observed test scores and the latent variant underlying the test scores. Comparisons of subpopulations with the same score on the latent variable can be expected to have the same observed test score. Measurement invariance is therefore one of the key issues in psychological testing. It has been establ...

A psychological test, wrote Anne Anastasi in her classic book on the subject (Anastasi, 1968), is essentially an objective and standardised measure of a sample of behaviour. That psychological tests should be used to evaluate a computer system by measuring the behavioural disposition of end users towards it seems to be an obvious step. Dolotta and colleagues probably coined the phrase user-perc...

The functional method is a new test theory using a new scoring method that assumes complexity in test structure, and thus takes into account every correlation between factors and items. The main specificity of the functional method is to model test scores by multiple regression instead of estimating them by using simplistic sums of points. In order to proceed, the functional method requires the...

In previous research Libet (1966) discovered that a critical time period for neural activation is necessary in order for a stimulus to become conscious. This necessary time period varies from subject to subject. In this current study, six subjects for whom the time for neural activation of consciousness had been previously determined were administered a battery of psychological tests on the bas...

Sixty-seven 7-year-old children, who had asymptomatic lead exposure between 1 and 3 years of age, were compared in their performance on a series of psychologic tests to 70 children of the same age and socioeconomic background who presumably did not have significant exposure to lead. Exposed children had deficits in global IQ and associative abilities, in visual and fine motor coordination, and ...

The authors are preparing for cross-cultural studies of immunosuppressive behaviors and emotions, commonly called "Type C," in both healthy persons and in patients with cancer. To this end, validity and reliability of a Type C Personality Inventory were assessed in a sample of 128 healthy volunteers. Reliability of the instrument was supported by moderate to high Cronbach alpha coefficients. Ac...

The use of psychological tests for various educational and vocational purposes has been growing rapidly during the last ten years and many persons are convinced of their value. Yet the nature of the mental functions which are measured by these tests is still disputed to an extent which threatens to delay their full and proper application. Quite recently 1 Professor Spearman has suggested that t...