Tests for special mental abilities and disability

Tests for special mental abilities and disability.: 

Tests for special mental abilities and disability .

Definition- psychological tests: 

Definition- psychological tests Psychological tests are specialized assessment procedures for determining such characteristics of an individual as intellectual capacity, motive pattern, self-concept, perception of environment, anxiety or depression, coping pattern and general personality integration.

Cognitive function: 

Cognitive function Memory: W echsler memory test. Assesses recent, immediate and remote recall. 2. Attention and concentration: Color cancellation test: cancel the color dots Knox cube test: fine cubes are kept, patient should mimic the examiner. 3. Intellegence : IQ mental age = X 10 Binet Kamat test for age group of 3-22 yrs. Bhatia’s performance battery of intelligence. Wechslers adult intelligence scales.

Personality tests: 

Personality tests QUESTIONNAIRES Eysenck personality inventory (EPI) Minnesota multi phasic personality inventory (MMIP) 16-personality factor test PROJECTIVE Rorschach ink-blot test TAT

Inter personal relations test: 

Inter personal relations test Bell’s adjustment inventory, rorschach test and TAT

Diagnostic clarification: 

Diagnostic clarification Rorschach test, TAT, 16- personality factor test, MMPI, sentence completion test is used to clarify psychiatric diagnosis Sentence completion test (SCT) Draw-a-person test (DAP) Bender-Gestalt test

List of psychological tests: 

List of psychological tests Test type Assesses Age Method Administration Alexander’s performance scale Intelligence and motor Cognitive function Below 10 yrs Performance on 3 subtests Individual Bayley scales of infant development Infant development Cognitive and motor function 1-30 months Performance on subtests measuring Individual Beck depression inventory Personality Measures depression Adult Performance on self report Individual Bender visual -motor gestalt test Visual motor development Organic brain damage, ego functions 5 - adult Reproduction of geometric figures Individual

Cont……: 

Cont …… Test Type Assesses Age Method Administration Bhatia’s performance scale Intelligence Cognitive and motor development Boys 11-16 yrs Performance on 5 subjects Individual Brief psychiatric rating scale symptomatology Symtomatology adult and global pathology adult 18-dimensions Individual Catells infant intelligence scale Infant development General motor and cognitive 1-18 months 17 scales Individual Catell’s 16 PF Personality inventory Personality conflicts Adults Self-reports Individual CAT Projective Personality conflicts child Makes up stories after viewing pictures Individual

Cont…: 

Cont … Test Type Assesses Age Method administration DAP Projective Personality conflicts 2-adult Patient drawing on blank sheet of paper Individual DAF projective Family perception 2-adult Patient drawing on blank sheet of paper Individual

Aids to psychiatry: 

Aids to psychiatry Eysenck personality questionnaire Gesell develoment schedules Global assessment scale Goldstein’s test of organicity Hamilton anxiety rating scale Hamilton depression rating scale Holzman inkblot technique MMPI Rorschach

Cont……: 

Cont …… 9 . Sack’s sentence completion test 10. SAT 11. S tanford- binet 12. TAT 13. Vineland social maturity scale 14. Weschler adult intelligence scale (WAIS) 15. WISC 16. WPPSI