Tuesday 27 August 2019

Psychological Testing

Psychological testing — also called psychological assessment — is the foundation of how psychologists better understand a person and their behavior. It is a process of problem solving for many professionals — to try and determine the core components of a person’s psychological or mental health problems, personality, IQ, or some other component. It is also a process that helps identifies not just weaknesses of a person, but also their strengths.

It is a field characterized by the use of samples of behavior, most often administered as a series of items in which the individual must give a response in order to assess psychological constructs, such as ability, cognitive and emotional functioning or personality.

Psychological testing measures an individual’s performance at a specific point in time — right now. Psychologists talk about a person’s ―present functioning‖ in terms of their test data. Therefore psychological tests can’t predict future or innate potential.

Psychological testing is the administration of psychological tests, which are designed to be "an objective and standardized measure of a sample of behavior". A psychological test is a standardized measure of a person’s behavior that is used to measure the individual differences that exists among people.

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