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Psychological Testing and Assessment: Types, Limitations, and Ethical Issues

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This article discusses the different types of psychological tests, their limitations, and ethical issues surrounding their use. Topics covered include clinical interviews, intellectual functioning assessment, personality tests, and cultural bias.

Psychological Testing and Assessment: Types, Limitations, and Ethical Issues

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The testing of the psychology is known as the assessment of psychology which is the foundation of how the psychologist understands the individual along with its traits of the behavior. The psychological tests differ depending on the aspects of the psychology of a person. For example, some tests are being used to determine the personality, IQ, etc. Whereas, some tests show the strong base of evidence as compared to some other tests. The different type of tests are Dupuis, (M., Meier, E., Capel, R., & Gendre, F. 2015)-Clinical interview- this interview is conducted by the professionals of the health in orderto gather the family and the personal information of an individual. This type of test is used by the social workers of the clinic, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, etc. The duration of the test is 1-2 hours. The test is simply used by interacting with the individual in order to gather the information.Intellectual functioning assessment- the test is conducted to measure the intellectual functions of an individual. This can be done by the assessment of neuropsychology and the tests of intelligence. This helps in determining the deficits and the strengths of the cognitive. This test is done for the persons who have suffered the brain damage, an organic problem of a brain and the dysfunction. The tests are being used by the professionals.Personality test- the test is conducted to test the personality traits of an individual. The test includes projective, and the objective but the objective type is being commonly used. The test is being used by the professionals, and the tests are used to measure the traits of the personality like hypomania, paranoia, femininity, introversion, etc. The 16 basic traitsof the personality are given to the person in order to see in which trait he lies and helps the professional to measure their actual traits of the personality.
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