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 Functioning

Cindy Sanchez

June 19, 2018

University of Phoenix

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 Assessment

This 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 Assessment

Behavioral 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 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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