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Raven’s Progressive Matrices

The matrices are posed in three different forms for participants of different ability: Standard Progressive Matrices, Coloured Progressive Matrices and …

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Mismatched Validity

Some tests are useful in diverse situations, but no test works well for all tasks with all people in all situations. In his classic 1967 article, Gordon…

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Direct Observation - Types

Naturalistic observation: involve viewing the individual’s behavior in real-life settings (e.g, psychiatric hospitals, work settings, and classrooms).

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Implicit Memory - What it is and How to test it

Implicit memory (""non-declarative"" memory) is a type of long-term memory in which previous experiences aid the performance of a ta…

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Descriptive and Predictive Assessment in Psychology

There are four clinical purposes of assessment – Descriptive assessment, Discriminative assessment, Predictive assessment and Evaluative assessment.

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Torrance Test of Creative Thinking

TTCT can be administered as an individual or group test from the kindergarten level through the graduate level and beyond. It requires 30 min of working…

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Wechsler Scales for Children

WISC-V is an individually administered intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or wr…

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Role of Psychological Assessment in Therapy

Therapy is the process of treatment of psychological or mental disorders by psychological means. Psychological assessment plays a dual role in conductin…

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Stages of Psychological Assessment

A psychological assessment can be most useful when it addresses specific individual problems and provides guidelines for decision making regarding these…

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Tests of Conceptual Thinking

Patients with moderate to severe focal or multiple lesions or with significant diffuse injury tend to do poorly on all tests of abstract thinking, regar…

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