Online Investigation: Psychological Tests

Activity 4.4

Please read the following questions and type your answer in the space provided. Click "Submit for Grade" to send the answer to your professor. Click the highlighted links to open in a separate window the passages or sites you'll use to answer the questions.

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Psychological tests for abnormal behavior can be divided into four types: objective personality tests, projective personality tests, intelligence tests, and neuropsychological tests. Intelligence examinations are usually effective and reliable to predict school performance, and can also be helpful for predicting performance in the real world. The Internet also offers various other tests.

Visit the following websites, and take some of the tests that are offered.

1) http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/psychology/IQ/index.html?
Intelligence testing is very common. What are some pros and cons of intelligence testing?

2) http://www.2h.com/Tests/iqalt.phtml
There are also "alternative" IQ tests. This page offers tests on one's wedding IQ, jewelry IQ, and garbage IQ.

3) http://www.2h.com/Tests/personality.phtml
For your amusement, this page offers other personality tests, such as a relationship attachment test and a Keirsey Temperament Sorter.

In conclusion, do you believe in the validity and worth of these tests? Why or why not? Do you think that intelligence tests accurately illustrate and predict someone's performance in school and the real world?


   

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