PSYCHOLOGICAL

TESTING MOVEMENT
PRESENTATION
CREATED BY ALISA JONES, BRITTANY JOHNSON,
SIOBHAN BURKE, KAITLYN HOLMLUND

WHAT IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST?

What is it?
Why have psychological tests?
How do people get an psychological test or
evaluation?

MENTAL TESTING
What is mental testing?
Examples of mental testing?
Specific tests?

TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTS
Psychological testing is the foundation of how
psychologists better understand a person
and their behavior

Types are :

Clinical interview- an opportunity for a professional

to gather information about the patient.
Assessment of Intellectual Functioning- an IQ test
of the individual.

TYPES OF TESTS CONT.

- Personality assessment- designed to better
help a professional understand an individuals
personality.
- Behavioral assessment- the process of
observing or measuring the individuals
behavior to better understand them.

CATEGORIES OF TESTS
Achievement tests
Clinical Psychology tests
Cognitive tests
Intelligence tests
Memory tests
Neuropsychology tests
Personality tests
Psychometrics

CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN
TO TESTING MOVEMENT
Through out history women have been a driving force behind
psychology, however, Gender discrimination had long
prevented women from making any acknowledged
contributions to psychological research. The discrimination
discouraged women from become psychologist. However, a
man named James Mckeen Cattell fought to urge the
acceptance of women in psychology.

James was instrumental in facilitating the graduate

education of Mary Whiton Calkins and helping her overcome
barriers of prejudice and discrimination.

Calkins later went on to Calkins later developed the pairedassociate technique used in the study of memory and made
significant and lasting contributions to psychology (Madigan
& OHara, 1992).

FLORENCE GOODENOUGH
Born in 1886, Florence Goodenough
developed a test called Draw-A-Man. This
test, was mostly geared towards preschoolers
and adults.

The test challenged subjects to draw a

picture of males or females. When done, the
pictures were analyzed for various
dimensions.

Examples of this included the size of the

head, placement of the arms and so forth.
This test helped to assess maturity in young

 Because of this test, many psychologist

thought of measures of differences in
personalities.

Another test that was developed by

Goodenough was called the Minnesota
Preschool Scale. This scale helped design the
learning ability of children 18 months through
6 years of age.

ANNE ANASTASI
"Intelligence is not a single, unitary
ability, but rather a composite of
several functions. The term denotes
that combination of abilities
required for survival and
advancement within a particular
culture (Anastasi, 1992, p. 613).

Anne Anastasi's research focused on understanding and

measuring the factors underlying the development of
individual differences in psychological traits (Anastasi,
1972, 1989). She argued against the strictly hereditarian
position, emphasizing the role of experiential and
environmental influences on intelligence test scores and
psychological development. She stressed that intelligence
test scores are not pure measures of innate ability.

RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN TESTING

INTELLIGENCE- BIASED TESTS?
The concept of racial differences in intelligence had
been advanced in the United States as early as the
1880s, and many calls had been made for quotas on
immigration from Mediterranean and Latin American
countries. The allegedly inferior intelligence of
American blacks had also been widely accepted,
even before the development of intelligence tests.

Horace Man Bond African-American scholar and

president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
argued that argued that any recorded differences in
the IQ scores between blacks and whites were
attributable to environmental rather than inherited
factors.

REFERENCE PAGE
Understanding psychological
testing.(2014).Retrieved from
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/assessment.aspx
Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. A History of
Modern Psychology(9th ed.)
http://www.intelltheory.com/anastasi.shtml
http://psychcentral.com/lib/types-ofpsychological-testing/0005924