April 2012 - Music Apperception Test

Announcements

Award for Research in Psychological Assessment: Closing Date is December 31st, 2016

The Psychodiagnostics Biennial Award for Research in Psychological Assessment emphasizes individual, performance-based measures of cognition of personality. Also known as idiographic instruments, such measures elicit individual responses, unique to the person, that link to implicit emotion, cognition, and motivation, often unavailable to consciousness. Representative tests include the Rorschach, the Music Read more…

By Leland van den Daele, 12 years8 years ago

Performance-based Personality Test Links

Psychodiagnostics seeks links to well validated, performance-based personality tests and measures which relate to basic emotional, motivational, and interpersonal dynamics or behavior. Use Psychodiagnostic’s Contact Us form to make your recommendations. [wp-blogroll]

By Leland van den Daele, 12 years8 years ago

Rorschach

Situational Tests, Free Association, and the Music Apperception Test

The “situational test” is generally viewed as the Gold Standard for psychological assessment. As a general rule, the closer a test to the actual behavior to be predicted, the more accurate is extrapolation from the test. As a general rule, these are “situational” tests. For example, to predict how an Read more…

By Leland van den Daele, 12 years8 years ago

Test Theory

The Slippery Slope of Self-Report Outcome Tests

Among the varieties of tests available for psychological diagnosis, treatment planning, and evaluation, changes in government, agency, and organizational policies favor the use of true-false, multiple choice, and rating scale “outcomes” tests. The shift toward forced-choice, self-report testing appears to have the blessing of research academicians, HMOs, and Federal Agencies. Read more…

By Leland van den Daele, 12 years8 years ago