Intelligence Testing What is intelligence Testing?What first comes to mind, when people hear the word Intelligence testing is the idea of IQ testing. The intelligence normally will define the intellectual potential that a person was born with. According to Matsumoto and Juang (2013) “In contemporary America psychology. Intelligence has generally been considered a conglomeration of numerous intellectual abilities centering around verbal and analytic tasks (p.144)Types of Psychological Testing*Personality Assessment*Behavioral Assessment*Clinical interview*Assessment of Intellectual FunctioningCindy SanchezJune 19, 2018University of Phoenix These types of psychological assessment, are available for different areas, for example for areas such as aptitude, work or careers counseling, management skills, achievement in school, and career planning. The Clinical Interview Clinical interviews usually last up to 1 to 2 hours. Clinical interviews are mostly conducted by mental health professionals for example psychologist, psychiatrists, and social workers can use this method. Using clinical interview, it allows the interviewer to gather information and family data as well as the individual’s life and personal history. Mostly this interview process will allow the interviewer to appropriately diagnose the individual. Assessment of intellectual Functioning According to (Framingham, J. 2016) It’s important to note that IQ tests do not measure actual intelligence, they measure what we believe might be important components of intelligence. The two primary component used to test a person’s intellectual functions are, intelligence test, and Neuropsychological assessment. Intelligence tests are the more common types administer and include Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler scales. Neuropsychological assessment can take up to 2 days to administer and much more extensive form.Personality AssessmentThis assessment gives a better understanding for the professional to understand the individual’s personality. According to (Framingham, J. 2016) Personality is a complex combination of factors that has been developed over a person’s entire childhood and young adulthood. Personality test gives a better understanding of complexity and rich texture.Behavioral AssessmentBehavioral assessment is defined as observation, or measuring a person’s behavior. This gives a professional a better understanding of the behavior and the thoughts behind the individual, which determine what reinforcing components or what triggers the individual to act a certain way, this will help change them and help them out with their behavioral issues, statistics show that an individual with behavioral issues most likely had a traumatic childhood experience that led them to act a certain way. Theories Overview British psychologist named Spearman came up with a theory of intelligence that focused on general intelligence. It focused on mental ability and viewed it as a single, general ability (mat.

1. Intelligence Testing
What is intelligence Testing?What first comes to mind, when
people hear the word Intelligence testing is the idea of IQ
testing. The intelligence normally will define the intellectual
potential that a person was born with. According to Matsumoto
and Juang (2013) “In contemporary America psychology.
Intelligence has generally been considered a conglomeration of
numerous intellectual abilities centering around verbal and
analytic tasks (p.144)Types of Psychological
Testing*Personality Assessment*Behavioral
Assessment*Clinical interview*Assessment of Intellectual
FunctioningCindy SanchezJune 19, 2018University of Phoenix
These types of psychological assessment, are available for
different areas, for example for areas such as aptitude, work or
careers counseling, management skills, achievement in school,
and career planning.
The Clinical Interview
Clinical interviews usually last up to 1 to 2 hours. Clinical
interviews are mostly conducted by mental health professionals
for example psychologist, psychiatrists, and social workers can
use this method. Using clinical interview, it allows the
interviewer to gather information and family data as well as the
individual’s life and personal history. Mostly this interview
process will allow the interviewer to appropriately diagnose the
individual.
Assessment of intellectual Functioning
According to (Framingham, J. 2016) It’s important to note that
IQ tests do not measure actual intelligence, they measure what

2. we believe might be important components of intelligence.
The two primary component used to test a person’s intellectual
functions are, intelligence test, and Neuropsychological
assessment.
Intelligence tests are the more common types administer and
include Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler scales.
Neuropsychological assessment can take up to 2 days to
administer and much more extensive form.Personality
AssessmentThis assessment gives a better understanding for the
professional to understand the individual’s personality.
According to (Framingham, J. 2016) Personality is a complex
combination of factors that has been developed over a person’s
entire childhood and young adulthood. Personality test gives a
better understanding of complexity and rich texture.Behavioral
AssessmentBehavioral assessment is defined as observation, or
measuring a person’s behavior. This gives a professional a
better understanding of the behavior and the thoughts behind the
individual, which determine what reinforcing components or
what triggers the individual to act a certain way, this will help
change them and help them out with their behavioral issues,
statistics show that an individual with behavioral issues most
likely had a traumatic childhood experience that led them to act
a certain way.
Theories Overview
British psychologist named Spearman came up with a theory of
intelligence that focused on general intelligence. It focused on
mental ability and viewed it as a single, general ability
(matsumoto &Juang, 2013). He labeled it as the G factor, this
factors were then measured through combing and summarizing
components scores of a multi-factorial intelligence test
(Matsumoto & Juang 2013)
The other psychologist was Louis Thurstone which offered a
much more different theory, it focused more on seven primary

3. abilities. The abilities included verbal comprehension,
reasoning perceptual, speed, numerical ability, word fluency,
associative memory and spatial visualization (matsumoto
&Juang, 2013)
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References
Framingham, J. (2016). What is psychological
Assessment? Psych Central. Retrieved on
June 14, 2018 from http://psychcentral.com/
Lib/what-is-psychological-assessment/
Matsumoto, D., &Juang, L. (2013). Culture
And psychology (5th ed.). Beltmont,
Wadsworth