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ASIGNMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Submitted to:
Dr Arshad Malik
Submitted By:
Muhammad Hamza Ashfaq 20562
Muhammad Faizan 20576
Muhammad Ali 20575
Muzamil Hussain 20560
BS (Hons) Applied Psychology
(Session 2020– 2024)
5th Semester (Evening)
Department of Psychology
Government M.A.O College, Lahore
Psychological Test:
A test designed to measure attributes useful to psychologists. These data points include scores
for mechanical aptitude, abstract thinking, reasoning skills, personality traits and more.
A psychological test that is given to one subject at a time. The Wechsler Intelligence Scales, the
Thematic Apperception Test, and the Stanford-Binet Test are examples of tests designed primarily for
individual administration.
Characteristics of Psychological Tests:
 Reliability: The psychological assessment/test must produce the same result no matter when it’s taken.
 Validity: The psychological test must measure what it’s been created to assess.
 Objectivity: The assessment must be free from any personal bias for its scoring, interpretation of
scoring or administration.
 Standardization: The test must be standardized in terms of its place, material and time for the
assessment as well as its environment.
There are two types of psychological test:

1: Individual Test
2: Group Test
Individual Tests:
A test can be said individual test in the sense that they can be administered to only one person at a time.
Many of the tests in these scales require oral responses from the examinee or necessitate the
manipulation of the materials.
Individual intelligence tests are preferred by the psychologist in clinics, hospitals and other settings
where clinical diagnoses are made, and where they serve not only as measures of general intelligence
but also as means of observing behavior in a standard situation.
Advantages and Disadvantages of individual tests:
Advantages:
1. Examiners can pay more attention to the examinee.
2. Examiners can easily encourage the examinee and observe his behavior during the test more closely.
3. Scores on individual tests are not as dependent on reading ability as scores in group tests.
Disadvantages:
1. It is very time-consuming
2. This type of test requires a highly-trained examiner.
3. It costs more than the group test.
Goal of Individual Assessment Methods:

 What does or should the person do?
 What knowledge, skill, and abilities does it take to perform this job?
 What is the result of the person performing the job?
 How does this job fit in with other jobs in the organization?
 What is the job’s contribution toward the organization’s goals?
Example:
These tests are administered to one individual at a time. These cover age group from 2 years to 18 years.
I. The Binet- Simon Test

II. Revised Tests by Terman
III. Mental Scholastic Tests of Burt
IV. Wechsler Test.
Group Test:
Group test was developed to meet a pressing practical need. Group test can be administered to a group
of persons at a time.
Group tests were designed as mass testing instruments; they not only permit the simultaneous
examination of large groups but they also use simplified instruction and administration procedures.
There by requiring a minimum of training on the part of examiner.
Advantages and Disadvantages of group tests:
Advantages:
1. can be administered to very large numbers simultaneously
2. simplified examiner role
3. scoring typically more objective
4. large, representative samples often used leading to better-established norms
5. A highly verbal group test can have a higher validity co-efficient than an individual test.
Disadvantages:
1. Scores on the group test are generally dependent on the reading ability.
2. Information obtained by the group test generally less accurate than the individual tests
3. the examiner has less opportunity to establish rapport, obtain cooperation, and maintain interest
4. not readily detected if examinee tired, anxious, unwell
5. evidence that emotionally disturbed children do better on individual than group tests
6. examinee’s responses more restricted
7. normally an individual is tested on all items in a group test and may become boredom over easy items
and frustrated or anxious over difficult items
Example:
Group tests are administered to a group of people Group tests had their birth in America – when the
intelligence of the recruits who joined the army in the First World War was to be calculated.
I. The Army Alpha and Beta Test,

II. Terman’s Group Tests, and
III. Otis Self- Administrative Tests.
Among the group tests there are two types:

1. Verbal, and
2. Non-Verbal.
1. Verbal tests are those which require the use of language to answer the test items.
2. Non – Verbal Test Is about reasoning is problem-solving using pictures and diagrams. It tests the
ability to analyze visual information and solve problems based on visual reasoning.

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ASIGNMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

Muhammad Hamza Ashfaq 20562

Muhammad Faizan 20576

Muhammad Ali 20575

Muzamil Hussain 20560

BS (Hons) Applied Psychology

(Session 2020– 2024)

5th Semester (Evening)

Characteristics of Psychological Tests:

There are two types of psychological test:

Advantages and Disadvantages of individual tests:

Goal of Individual Assessment Methods:

I. The Binet- Simon Test

Advantages and Disadvantages of group tests:

I. The Army Alpha and Beta Test,

Among the group tests there are two types:

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