INTELLIGENCE TESTS
Individual Tests
NAME AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION SCALES
Stanford-Binet Intelligence
Scale (SB5)
Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon
(first translated: Lewis Terman)
2-89 years old A norm-referenced instrument that
measures intellectual and cognitive ability
of an individual and their IQ
Useful for measuring individuals w/ both
giftedness & intellectual ability
Scales: Verbal, Nonverbal, Full Scale
5 Factors:
• Fluid Reasoning (FR)
• Knowledge (KN)
• Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
• Visual-Spatial Processing (VS)
• Working memory (WM)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for
Children (WISC-V)
David Wechsler
6-16 years old Measures child’s intellectual ability, general
thinking & reasoning skills
Composite Score:
• Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ)
Primary Index Scores:
• Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)
• Visual Spatial Index (VSI)
• Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI)
• Working Memory Index (WMI)
• Processing Speed Index (PSI)
Ancillary Index Scores:
• Quantitative Reasoning Index (QRI)
• Auditory Working Memory Index (AWMI)
• Nonverbal Index (NVI)
• General Ability Index (GAI)
• Cognitive Proficiency Index (CPI)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence
Scale (WAIS-V)
David Wechsler
16-90 years old Measures intelligence & cognitive ability
in adults and older adolescents
Assess cognitive functioning in people w/
psychiatric conditions & w/ brain injury
Index Scores:
• Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)
• Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI)
• Working Memory Index (WMI)
• Processing Speed Index (PSI)
Wechsler Pre-School and
Primary Scale of Intelligence
(WPPSI-IV)
David Wechsler
2.5-7.5 years old A norm-referenced instrument that
measures cognitive development for
preschoolers and young children
Overall Composite Score:
• Full Scale IQ
Primary Index Scores:
• Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI)
• Visual Spatial Index (VSI)
• Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI)
• Working Memory Index (WMI)
• Processing Speed Index (PSI)
Ancillary Index Scores:
• Vocabulary Acquisition
• Nonverbal
• General Ability (Ages 2:6 -3:11)
• Cognitive Proficiency
Group Tests (Non-Verbal)
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Raven’s Progressive
Matrices
RPM John Raven 4-90 years old Non-verbal test used to measure general human intelligence and
abstract reasoning and estimate fluid intelligence
Standard Progressive
Matrices
SPM John Raven 6-17 years old For children & teens w/ each item becoming progressively more
difficult
Advanced Progressive
Matrices
APM John Raven 12+ years old Measures advanced intelligence of adults & teens
Beta 4 Intelligence Test 0-99+ Nonverbal measure of adult cognitive abilities
Otis Lennon School
Ability Test
OLSAT Arthur Otis & Roger
Lennon
K-12 First group intelligence test used in schools which measures abstract
thinking & reasoning ability
Culture Fair
Intelligence Test
CFIT Raymond Cattell Scale 1: 4-8
Scale 2: 8-14
Scale 3: 14 above
Non-verbal instrument measuring analytical & reasoning ability in
the abstract & novel situations with reduced influence of culture
Purdue Non-Language
Test
PNLT Tiffin, Gruder & Inaba 13+ years old Self-administered measure of mental ability since it consists entirely
of geometric forms
Goodenough-Harris
Drawing Test
G-HDT Works best w/
children
One of the quickest, easiest & least expensive to administer
Subject is asked to draw a picture of a whole man
Panukat ng Katalinuhang
Pilipino
PKP Aurora R. Palacio 16+ years old Basis for screening, classifying & identifying needs that will enhance
the learning process
Short Forms
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Wechsler Abbreviated
Scale of Intelligence
WASI-II David Wechsler 6-89 years old To answer the need for a short instrument
to screen intellectual ability
CREATIVITY TESTS
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Torrance Test of Creative
Thinking
TTCT E. Paul Torrance 6-18+ years old Word-based, picture-based & sound-based test materials that measure
various characteristics important in creative thoughts
Remote Associates Test RAT Sarnoff Mednick Measure creative convergent thinking by presenting 3 words & the
task is to find a 4th
word associated w/ the other 3
APTITUDE TESTS
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Differential Aptitude Test DAT Bennet, Seashore &
Wesman
16+ years old
Grade 7+
Measure ability to acquire, through future training, some specific set
of skill
Flannagan Industrial Test FIT Flannagan Adults Use for personnel selection based on identified job elements
Philippine Aptitude
Classification Test
PACT Ma. Lourdes Franco 14-15 years old Measure student’s abilities & helps them decide what course they
will take on college
INFANT SCALES
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Brazelton Neonatal
Assessment Scale
BNAS Berry Brazelton 3days-4weeks Provides an index of a newborn’s competence
Gessell Developmental
Schedules
GDS Arnold Gessell 2-6 years old Provide an appraisal of the developmental status of children
Bayley Scales of Infant &
Toddler Development
BSID III Nancy Bayley 2-30 months Measure cognitive & motor functions
Predicts retarded infants
Does not predict future intelligence
Cattell Infant Intelligence
Scale
CIIS Psyche Cattell 2-30 months Measure infant intelligence
Downward extension of Binet Scale
MAJOR TESTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
McCarthy Scales of
Children’s Abilities
MSCA Dorothea McCarthy 2-8 years old Presents a carefully constructed individual test of human ability
Kaufman Assessment
Battery for Children
KABC II Alan & Nadeen
Kaufman
3-18 years old An individual psychological diagnostic test for assessing cognitive
development
INDIVIDUALABILITY TESTS FOR HANDICAPPED & SPECIAL POPULATIONS
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Columbia Mental
Maturity Scale
CMMS III Burgemeister, Blum &
Lorge
3-9 years old Assess ability in people w/ sensory, physical or language handicaps
Peabody Picture
Vocabulary Test
PPVT IV Lloyd & Leota Dunn 2-90 years old Measure hearing/receptive vocabulary, presumably providing a
nonverbal estimate of verbal intelligence
Not used with deaf because it is administered aloud
Leiter International
Performance Scale
LIPS-R Stoelting 2-18 years old Provide a nonverbal measure of general intelligence by sampling a
wide variety of functions from memory to nonverbal reasoning
Often used when assessing children w/ autism
Porteus Maze Test PMT Porteus 3+ years old Popular but poorly standardized nonverbal performance measure of
intelligence
12 mazes that increase in complexity across age levels
LEARNING DISABILITY TESTS
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Illinois Test of
Psycholinguistic Abilities
ITPA III Kirk 2-10 years old Assumes that failure to respond correctly to a stimulus can also result
from a defective input or information-processing system
Woodcock-Johnson III WJ III Richard Woodcock Individually administered test to be used in educational settings
VISIOGRAPHIC TEST
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Benton Visual Retention
Test
BVRT V Arthur Benton 8+ years old Assumes that brain damage easily impairs visual memory ability
Geometric designs briefly presented then removed & subjects need to
reproduce the designs from memory
Bender Visual Motor
Gestalt Test
BVMGT Lauretta Bender 3-85 years old Assessment of brain damage
Consists of 9 geometric figures that the subject is asked to copy
Memory for Design Test MFD Graham & Kendall 8-60 years old Simple drawing test that involves perceptual-motor coordination
Can also assess brain injury
GROUPACHIEVEMENT TEST
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Stanford Achievement Test SAT K-12 Evaluates achievement in: spelling, reading comprehension, word
skills, language, arts, social studies, math, science, etc.
Metropolitan Achievement
Test
MAT8 Harcourt Educ
Measurement
K-12 Measures reading & mathematics skills
PERSONALITY TESTS
OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TESTS
Logical-Content
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Woodworth Personal Data
Sheet
WPDS Robert Woodworth 25-44 years old First personality inventory (WWI)
Identify military recruits who would likely to break down in combat
Early Multidimensional Logical-Content Scale
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Bell Adjustment Inventory BAI Hugh Bell 16-20 years old Evaluate subject’s adjustment in a variety of areas (home, social)
Basic Personality
Inventory
BPI Douglas Jackson Adolescents-adults To identify sources of maladjustment & personal strengths
Mooney Problem Checklist MPC Mooney & Gordon Children-adults List of problems that recurred in clinical case history data
Panukat ng Ugali at
Pagkatao/Panukat ng
Pagkataong Pilipino
PUP Enriquez & Guanzon 12-18 years old Indigenous personality test that tap specific values, traits &
behavioral dimensions related to the study of Filipinos
Criterion-Group Strategy
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory
MMPI 2 Hathaway & McKinley 14-18 years old Aid to psychiatric diagnosis
California Psychological
Inventory
CPI III Harrison Gough 13+ years old Evaluate personality in normally adjusted individuals & finds more
use in counseling settings
Factor Analyric Strategy
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
16 Personality Factor
Questionnaire
16PF Raymond Cattell 16+ years old Self-report test that helps uncover central dimensions within the
normal personality sphere
Theoretical Strategy
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Edwards Personal
Preference Schedule
EPPS Allen Edwards 16-85 years old Used in counseling centers (Ipsative Scoring)
Theoretical basis: Need Systems by Murray
Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator
MBTI Myers & Briggs 13+ years old Self-report to identify personality type, strength & preferences
Theory: Carl Jung’s Theory of Psychological Types
Combination Strategy
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
NEO Personality
Inventory
NEO-PI-R Costa & McCrae 17+ years old A measure of the 5 factor model (OCEAN)
Widely used in clinical & research setting
Pictorial Self Concept
Scale for Children
PSC Jack Joseph 3-13 years old Measure self-concept and children w/ negative self-appraisal that
may put them at risk for academic/behavioral difficulties
PROJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Rorschach Inkblot Test RIT Hermann Rorschach 5+ years old Subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed
using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both
Holtzman Inkblot Test HIT Wayne Holtzman 5+ years old Alternative to Rorschach w/ 2 forms
Thematic Apperception
Test
TAT Murray & Morgan 5+ years old Subject explains what is happening in ambiguous scenes.
Children Apperception
Test
CAT Leopold & Sonya
Bellak
3-10 years old helps describes aspects of emotional disturbance in children
Word Association Test WAT Carl Jung 16-70 years old Presentation of a list of stimulus words which an assessee responds
verbally or in writing with whatever comes to mind first
Sacks Sentence
Completion Test
SSCT Sacks & Levy 12+ years old Respondents complete 60 questions with the first thing that comes to
mind in 4 areas: Family, Sex, Interpersonal rel, Self concept
Draw-a-Person Test DAP Florence Goodenough 3-15 years old Subject draws the picture of a person and asked to tell a story
House Tree Person Test HTP John Buck 3+ years old Draws a picture of a house, tree & person and makes a story about it
Kinetic Family Drawing
Test
KFDT Burns & Kaufman Subject draws a picture of his/her family
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Millon Clinical Multiaxial
Inventory
MCMI III Theodore Millon 18+ years old A 175 item true/false that yields scores related to enduring
personality features and acute symptoms
Can assist clinicians in making diagnoses based on multiaxial DSM
Beck Depression Inventory BDI II Aaron Beck 13-80 years old Self-report measure w/ 21 items each tapping a specific
symptom/attitude associated w/ depression
Beck Anxiety Inventory BAI Aaron Beck 7-14 years old Assess the intensity of physical and cognitive anxiety symptoms
during the past week.
Center for Epidemiological
Studies Depression Scale
CES-D Laurie Radloff 6-17 years old Self-report measure of depressive symptoms w/ 20 items
Has short versions for screening tool of depression
TESTS FOR ADDICTION
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
MacAndrew Alcoholism
Scale Revised
MAC-R MacAndrew Personality & attitude variable thought to underlie alcoholism
49 items
Addiction Potential Scale APS Svanum & McGrew Personality traits thought to underlie drug/alcohol abuse
Addiction
Acknowledgement Scale
AAS Svanum & McGrew Direct acknowledgment of substance abuse
Addiction Severity Index ASI McLellan Raters assess severity of addiction in 7 problem areas
Michigan Alcohol
Screening Test
MAST Selzer 18-60 years Lifetime alcohol-related problems
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
Tests of Ability to Abstract
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Wisconsin Card Sorting
Test – 64 Card Version
WCST Grant & Berg 6.5-89 years old Requires subject to sort a pack of 64 cards that contain different
geometric figures printed in different colors
Useful in screening for neurological impairment w/ or w/o injury
Tests of Executive Function
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Tower of Hanoi Hinz 7-9; 11-14 years Set up by stacking the rings on one of the pegs
Porteus Maze Test Porteus 3+ years old Subjects trace a series of increasingly difficult mazes without
entering any blind alleys.
Clock-drawing Test Henry Head Subject draws the face of the clock, with the hands of the clock
indicating a particular time
Assessing cognitive dysfunction (dementia, neuro disorders)
Trail Making Test Partington & Leiter 18-89 years old Subject connects the dots in a logical fashion
Field of Search Item After being shown a sample of stimulus, subject locates a match as
quickly as possible
Identification Task Subject is involved in confrontation naming (naming a stimulus)
Picture Absurdity Subject answers questions such as “What’s wrong w/ this picture?”
Tests of Perceptual, Motor & Perceptual-Motor Function
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Wepman Auditory
Discrimination Test
WAD Joseph Wepman 4-8 years old Measuring deficit in auditory functioning
Bruininks-Oseretsky Test
of Motor Proficiency
BOT 2 Bruininks 4.5-14.5 years old Includes substests that assess running speed & agility, balance,
strength, response speed & dexterity
Purdue Pegboard Test PPT Joseph Tiffin 2-11 years old Measures gross movement of the arm, hand and fingers & fingertip
dexterity.
Bender Visual-Motor
Gestalt Test
Lauretta Bender 3-85 years old Measures visual motor development
Ishihara Test Shinobu Ishihara 5-10 years old Conventional color blindness test
Tests of Verbal Functioning
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Controlled Word
Association Test
CWA Benton, Hamsher &
Sivan
16-70 years old Examiner says a letter and subject need to say as many words as he
can think of that begins with that letter
Reitan-Indiana Aphasia
Screening
AST Williams & Shane 5-8 years old Measure of aspects of aphasia
Tests of Memory
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
California Verbal
Learning Test
CVLT II Delis, Kramer, Kaplan
& Ober
5-16 years old Measure key constructs in cognitive psychology such as repetition
learning, serial position effects, semantic organization, intrusions
Wechsler Memory Scale WMS IV David Wechsler 16-90 years old Individually administered test of memory and working memory
Neuropsychological Test Batteries
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Halstead-Reitan
Neuropsychological
Inventory
HRNB Ward Halstead 15+ years old Assess the condition and functioning of the brain, including etiology,
type, localization and lateralization of brain injury.
Neurosensory Center
Comprehensive
Examination of Aphasia
NCCEA Spreen & Benton Focuses on communication deficit
Montreal Neurological
Institute Battery
MINB Useful to trained neuropsychologists in locating specific kinds of
lesions
Southern California
Sensory Integration Tests
SCSIT Anne Ayres 4-9 years old Assess sensory-integrative & motor functioning
Severe Impairment
Battery
SIB Saxton & Boller 51-91 years old Assess the skills of people with severe dementia
Cognitive Behavioral
Driver’s Inventory
CBDI Engum Test of the brain injured person's ability to operate a motor vehicle
safely
CAREER/BUSINESS TESTS
Measures of Interest
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Strong Interest Inventory SII Edward Strong 16+ years old Helps individuals identify their work personality by exploring their
interests in six broad areas: realistic, artistic, investigative, social,
enterprising, and conventional
Self Directed Search SDS John Holland 11-70 years old Matches your aspirations, activities, and talents to the career choices
and educational opportunities that fit you best
Strong Campbell Interest
Inventory Test
SCII Strong & Campbell 13+ years old 325 items w/ each referring to an activity
Classifies subjects to 6 general occupational themes based on the
theory of John Holland (RIASEC)
Kuder Occupational
Interest Survey
KOIS Frederic Kuder Self-report vocational interest test used for vocational guidance and
counseling
Presents subject with 100 triads of alternative activities and he must
select the most preferred & least preferred alternatives
Career Assessment
Inventory
CAI Jennifer Bodek 15+ years old Takes individual's workplace interests and compares them with other
individuals currently in one of the 111 careers in their database
Thurstone Interest
Schedule
TIS Thurstone Adults Checklist by which a subject can clarify his understanding of his
vocational interest
Measures of Ability
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Wonderlic Personnel Test WPT Eldon Wonderlic A brief 12 minute test measures mental ability & problem-solving
Thurstone Test of Mental
Alertness
TMA Louis Thurstone Adults Assess: Adjusting to new situations, learning new skills quickly,
understanding complex relationships, thinking flexibly
Bennett Mechanical
Comprehension Test
BMCT Owens Bennett Widely used paper-and-pencil measure of the ability to understand
relationship between physical forces & various tools
Watson Glaser Critical
Thinking Test
W-GCTA Watson & Glaser 20-64 years old Assess a person’s critical thinking
Measures of Motivation
NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION
Work Preference
Inventory
WPI Hill & Hennessey 14-65 years old 30 items rated on a 4-point scale based on how much the subject
believes the item to be self-descriptive
Taps intrinsic & extrinsic motivation
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS LIST for blepp review

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS LIST for blepp review

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    INTELLIGENCE TESTS Individual Tests NAMEAGE RANGE DESCRIPTION SCALES Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (SB5) Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon (first translated: Lewis Terman) 2-89 years old A norm-referenced instrument that measures intellectual and cognitive ability of an individual and their IQ Useful for measuring individuals w/ both giftedness & intellectual ability Scales: Verbal, Nonverbal, Full Scale 5 Factors: • Fluid Reasoning (FR) • Knowledge (KN) • Quantitative Reasoning (QR) • Visual-Spatial Processing (VS) • Working memory (WM) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V) David Wechsler 6-16 years old Measures child’s intellectual ability, general thinking & reasoning skills Composite Score: • Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ) Primary Index Scores: • Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) • Visual Spatial Index (VSI) • Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI) • Working Memory Index (WMI) • Processing Speed Index (PSI) Ancillary Index Scores: • Quantitative Reasoning Index (QRI) • Auditory Working Memory Index (AWMI) • Nonverbal Index (NVI) • General Ability Index (GAI) • Cognitive Proficiency Index (CPI) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-V) David Wechsler 16-90 years old Measures intelligence & cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents Assess cognitive functioning in people w/ psychiatric conditions & w/ brain injury Index Scores: • Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) • Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI) • Working Memory Index (WMI) • Processing Speed Index (PSI) Wechsler Pre-School and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-IV) David Wechsler 2.5-7.5 years old A norm-referenced instrument that measures cognitive development for preschoolers and young children Overall Composite Score: • Full Scale IQ Primary Index Scores: • Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI) • Visual Spatial Index (VSI) • Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI) • Working Memory Index (WMI) • Processing Speed Index (PSI)
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    Ancillary Index Scores: •Vocabulary Acquisition • Nonverbal • General Ability (Ages 2:6 -3:11) • Cognitive Proficiency Group Tests (Non-Verbal) NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Raven’s Progressive Matrices RPM John Raven 4-90 years old Non-verbal test used to measure general human intelligence and abstract reasoning and estimate fluid intelligence Standard Progressive Matrices SPM John Raven 6-17 years old For children & teens w/ each item becoming progressively more difficult Advanced Progressive Matrices APM John Raven 12+ years old Measures advanced intelligence of adults & teens Beta 4 Intelligence Test 0-99+ Nonverbal measure of adult cognitive abilities Otis Lennon School Ability Test OLSAT Arthur Otis & Roger Lennon K-12 First group intelligence test used in schools which measures abstract thinking & reasoning ability Culture Fair Intelligence Test CFIT Raymond Cattell Scale 1: 4-8 Scale 2: 8-14 Scale 3: 14 above Non-verbal instrument measuring analytical & reasoning ability in the abstract & novel situations with reduced influence of culture Purdue Non-Language Test PNLT Tiffin, Gruder & Inaba 13+ years old Self-administered measure of mental ability since it consists entirely of geometric forms Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test G-HDT Works best w/ children One of the quickest, easiest & least expensive to administer Subject is asked to draw a picture of a whole man Panukat ng Katalinuhang Pilipino PKP Aurora R. Palacio 16+ years old Basis for screening, classifying & identifying needs that will enhance the learning process Short Forms NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence WASI-II David Wechsler 6-89 years old To answer the need for a short instrument to screen intellectual ability
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    CREATIVITY TESTS NAME ABBAUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Torrance Test of Creative Thinking TTCT E. Paul Torrance 6-18+ years old Word-based, picture-based & sound-based test materials that measure various characteristics important in creative thoughts Remote Associates Test RAT Sarnoff Mednick Measure creative convergent thinking by presenting 3 words & the task is to find a 4th word associated w/ the other 3 APTITUDE TESTS NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Differential Aptitude Test DAT Bennet, Seashore & Wesman 16+ years old Grade 7+ Measure ability to acquire, through future training, some specific set of skill Flannagan Industrial Test FIT Flannagan Adults Use for personnel selection based on identified job elements Philippine Aptitude Classification Test PACT Ma. Lourdes Franco 14-15 years old Measure student’s abilities & helps them decide what course they will take on college INFANT SCALES NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale BNAS Berry Brazelton 3days-4weeks Provides an index of a newborn’s competence Gessell Developmental Schedules GDS Arnold Gessell 2-6 years old Provide an appraisal of the developmental status of children Bayley Scales of Infant & Toddler Development BSID III Nancy Bayley 2-30 months Measure cognitive & motor functions Predicts retarded infants Does not predict future intelligence Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale CIIS Psyche Cattell 2-30 months Measure infant intelligence Downward extension of Binet Scale MAJOR TESTS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities MSCA Dorothea McCarthy 2-8 years old Presents a carefully constructed individual test of human ability Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children KABC II Alan & Nadeen Kaufman 3-18 years old An individual psychological diagnostic test for assessing cognitive development
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    INDIVIDUALABILITY TESTS FORHANDICAPPED & SPECIAL POPULATIONS NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Columbia Mental Maturity Scale CMMS III Burgemeister, Blum & Lorge 3-9 years old Assess ability in people w/ sensory, physical or language handicaps Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test PPVT IV Lloyd & Leota Dunn 2-90 years old Measure hearing/receptive vocabulary, presumably providing a nonverbal estimate of verbal intelligence Not used with deaf because it is administered aloud Leiter International Performance Scale LIPS-R Stoelting 2-18 years old Provide a nonverbal measure of general intelligence by sampling a wide variety of functions from memory to nonverbal reasoning Often used when assessing children w/ autism Porteus Maze Test PMT Porteus 3+ years old Popular but poorly standardized nonverbal performance measure of intelligence 12 mazes that increase in complexity across age levels LEARNING DISABILITY TESTS NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities ITPA III Kirk 2-10 years old Assumes that failure to respond correctly to a stimulus can also result from a defective input or information-processing system Woodcock-Johnson III WJ III Richard Woodcock Individually administered test to be used in educational settings VISIOGRAPHIC TEST NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Benton Visual Retention Test BVRT V Arthur Benton 8+ years old Assumes that brain damage easily impairs visual memory ability Geometric designs briefly presented then removed & subjects need to reproduce the designs from memory Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test BVMGT Lauretta Bender 3-85 years old Assessment of brain damage Consists of 9 geometric figures that the subject is asked to copy Memory for Design Test MFD Graham & Kendall 8-60 years old Simple drawing test that involves perceptual-motor coordination Can also assess brain injury
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    GROUPACHIEVEMENT TEST NAME ABBAUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Stanford Achievement Test SAT K-12 Evaluates achievement in: spelling, reading comprehension, word skills, language, arts, social studies, math, science, etc. Metropolitan Achievement Test MAT8 Harcourt Educ Measurement K-12 Measures reading & mathematics skills PERSONALITY TESTS OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TESTS Logical-Content NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Woodworth Personal Data Sheet WPDS Robert Woodworth 25-44 years old First personality inventory (WWI) Identify military recruits who would likely to break down in combat Early Multidimensional Logical-Content Scale NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Bell Adjustment Inventory BAI Hugh Bell 16-20 years old Evaluate subject’s adjustment in a variety of areas (home, social) Basic Personality Inventory BPI Douglas Jackson Adolescents-adults To identify sources of maladjustment & personal strengths Mooney Problem Checklist MPC Mooney & Gordon Children-adults List of problems that recurred in clinical case history data Panukat ng Ugali at Pagkatao/Panukat ng Pagkataong Pilipino PUP Enriquez & Guanzon 12-18 years old Indigenous personality test that tap specific values, traits & behavioral dimensions related to the study of Filipinos Criterion-Group Strategy NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI 2 Hathaway & McKinley 14-18 years old Aid to psychiatric diagnosis California Psychological Inventory CPI III Harrison Gough 13+ years old Evaluate personality in normally adjusted individuals & finds more use in counseling settings
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    Factor Analyric Strategy NAMEABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire 16PF Raymond Cattell 16+ years old Self-report test that helps uncover central dimensions within the normal personality sphere Theoretical Strategy NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Edwards Personal Preference Schedule EPPS Allen Edwards 16-85 years old Used in counseling centers (Ipsative Scoring) Theoretical basis: Need Systems by Murray Myers-Briggs Type Indicator MBTI Myers & Briggs 13+ years old Self-report to identify personality type, strength & preferences Theory: Carl Jung’s Theory of Psychological Types Combination Strategy NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION NEO Personality Inventory NEO-PI-R Costa & McCrae 17+ years old A measure of the 5 factor model (OCEAN) Widely used in clinical & research setting Pictorial Self Concept Scale for Children PSC Jack Joseph 3-13 years old Measure self-concept and children w/ negative self-appraisal that may put them at risk for academic/behavioral difficulties PROJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Rorschach Inkblot Test RIT Hermann Rorschach 5+ years old Subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both Holtzman Inkblot Test HIT Wayne Holtzman 5+ years old Alternative to Rorschach w/ 2 forms Thematic Apperception Test TAT Murray & Morgan 5+ years old Subject explains what is happening in ambiguous scenes. Children Apperception Test CAT Leopold & Sonya Bellak 3-10 years old helps describes aspects of emotional disturbance in children Word Association Test WAT Carl Jung 16-70 years old Presentation of a list of stimulus words which an assessee responds verbally or in writing with whatever comes to mind first Sacks Sentence Completion Test SSCT Sacks & Levy 12+ years old Respondents complete 60 questions with the first thing that comes to mind in 4 areas: Family, Sex, Interpersonal rel, Self concept Draw-a-Person Test DAP Florence Goodenough 3-15 years old Subject draws the picture of a person and asked to tell a story House Tree Person Test HTP John Buck 3+ years old Draws a picture of a house, tree & person and makes a story about it Kinetic Family Drawing Test KFDT Burns & Kaufman Subject draws a picture of his/her family
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    PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS NAME ABBAUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory MCMI III Theodore Millon 18+ years old A 175 item true/false that yields scores related to enduring personality features and acute symptoms Can assist clinicians in making diagnoses based on multiaxial DSM Beck Depression Inventory BDI II Aaron Beck 13-80 years old Self-report measure w/ 21 items each tapping a specific symptom/attitude associated w/ depression Beck Anxiety Inventory BAI Aaron Beck 7-14 years old Assess the intensity of physical and cognitive anxiety symptoms during the past week. Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale CES-D Laurie Radloff 6-17 years old Self-report measure of depressive symptoms w/ 20 items Has short versions for screening tool of depression TESTS FOR ADDICTION NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale Revised MAC-R MacAndrew Personality & attitude variable thought to underlie alcoholism 49 items Addiction Potential Scale APS Svanum & McGrew Personality traits thought to underlie drug/alcohol abuse Addiction Acknowledgement Scale AAS Svanum & McGrew Direct acknowledgment of substance abuse Addiction Severity Index ASI McLellan Raters assess severity of addiction in 7 problem areas Michigan Alcohol Screening Test MAST Selzer 18-60 years Lifetime alcohol-related problems
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    NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS Tests ofAbility to Abstract NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Wisconsin Card Sorting Test – 64 Card Version WCST Grant & Berg 6.5-89 years old Requires subject to sort a pack of 64 cards that contain different geometric figures printed in different colors Useful in screening for neurological impairment w/ or w/o injury Tests of Executive Function NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Tower of Hanoi Hinz 7-9; 11-14 years Set up by stacking the rings on one of the pegs Porteus Maze Test Porteus 3+ years old Subjects trace a series of increasingly difficult mazes without entering any blind alleys. Clock-drawing Test Henry Head Subject draws the face of the clock, with the hands of the clock indicating a particular time Assessing cognitive dysfunction (dementia, neuro disorders) Trail Making Test Partington & Leiter 18-89 years old Subject connects the dots in a logical fashion Field of Search Item After being shown a sample of stimulus, subject locates a match as quickly as possible Identification Task Subject is involved in confrontation naming (naming a stimulus) Picture Absurdity Subject answers questions such as “What’s wrong w/ this picture?” Tests of Perceptual, Motor & Perceptual-Motor Function NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test WAD Joseph Wepman 4-8 years old Measuring deficit in auditory functioning Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency BOT 2 Bruininks 4.5-14.5 years old Includes substests that assess running speed & agility, balance, strength, response speed & dexterity Purdue Pegboard Test PPT Joseph Tiffin 2-11 years old Measures gross movement of the arm, hand and fingers & fingertip dexterity. Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test Lauretta Bender 3-85 years old Measures visual motor development Ishihara Test Shinobu Ishihara 5-10 years old Conventional color blindness test
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    Tests of VerbalFunctioning NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Controlled Word Association Test CWA Benton, Hamsher & Sivan 16-70 years old Examiner says a letter and subject need to say as many words as he can think of that begins with that letter Reitan-Indiana Aphasia Screening AST Williams & Shane 5-8 years old Measure of aspects of aphasia Tests of Memory NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION California Verbal Learning Test CVLT II Delis, Kramer, Kaplan & Ober 5-16 years old Measure key constructs in cognitive psychology such as repetition learning, serial position effects, semantic organization, intrusions Wechsler Memory Scale WMS IV David Wechsler 16-90 years old Individually administered test of memory and working memory Neuropsychological Test Batteries NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Inventory HRNB Ward Halstead 15+ years old Assess the condition and functioning of the brain, including etiology, type, localization and lateralization of brain injury. Neurosensory Center Comprehensive Examination of Aphasia NCCEA Spreen & Benton Focuses on communication deficit Montreal Neurological Institute Battery MINB Useful to trained neuropsychologists in locating specific kinds of lesions Southern California Sensory Integration Tests SCSIT Anne Ayres 4-9 years old Assess sensory-integrative & motor functioning Severe Impairment Battery SIB Saxton & Boller 51-91 years old Assess the skills of people with severe dementia Cognitive Behavioral Driver’s Inventory CBDI Engum Test of the brain injured person's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely
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    CAREER/BUSINESS TESTS Measures ofInterest NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Strong Interest Inventory SII Edward Strong 16+ years old Helps individuals identify their work personality by exploring their interests in six broad areas: realistic, artistic, investigative, social, enterprising, and conventional Self Directed Search SDS John Holland 11-70 years old Matches your aspirations, activities, and talents to the career choices and educational opportunities that fit you best Strong Campbell Interest Inventory Test SCII Strong & Campbell 13+ years old 325 items w/ each referring to an activity Classifies subjects to 6 general occupational themes based on the theory of John Holland (RIASEC) Kuder Occupational Interest Survey KOIS Frederic Kuder Self-report vocational interest test used for vocational guidance and counseling Presents subject with 100 triads of alternative activities and he must select the most preferred & least preferred alternatives Career Assessment Inventory CAI Jennifer Bodek 15+ years old Takes individual's workplace interests and compares them with other individuals currently in one of the 111 careers in their database Thurstone Interest Schedule TIS Thurstone Adults Checklist by which a subject can clarify his understanding of his vocational interest Measures of Ability NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Wonderlic Personnel Test WPT Eldon Wonderlic A brief 12 minute test measures mental ability & problem-solving Thurstone Test of Mental Alertness TMA Louis Thurstone Adults Assess: Adjusting to new situations, learning new skills quickly, understanding complex relationships, thinking flexibly Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test BMCT Owens Bennett Widely used paper-and-pencil measure of the ability to understand relationship between physical forces & various tools Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Test W-GCTA Watson & Glaser 20-64 years old Assess a person’s critical thinking Measures of Motivation NAME ABB AUTHOR AGE RANGE DESCRIPTION Work Preference Inventory WPI Hill & Hennessey 14-65 years old 30 items rated on a 4-point scale based on how much the subject believes the item to be self-descriptive Taps intrinsic & extrinsic motivation