PSYC 406 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Malingering, Florence Goodenough, Figure Drawing
3 Feb 2017
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Widely used as measures of emotional adjustments. Does not fit the non-language requirement as the test giver needs to convey information in english at some point. Purpose measure intellectual maturity: now very outdated. Has a very thorough scoring system that was well normed. Validity not good, do not identify children with specific disabilities: hiskey nebraska test of learning aptitude. Can be entirely administered through pantomime and requires no verbal instructions. Consist of 12 subtest: bead patterns, color memory, picture identification, picture association etc. Parallel norms an interesting feature of this test, but does not have adequate norms. Validity correlated quite robustly with achievement scales for grade 2 through 12 as well as the. Measure of cognitive ability for disabled and language impaired populations. Well suited for deaf, language impaired and physically limited people. Highly regarded as a brief, reliable, valid and culture reduced form of testing intelligence.
