psychology tests. tell me what these mean?
I’ve already taken these psychology tests, and I am VERY confused. Can anyone tell me what the purposes of these test were, and what they were testing me for?
For one of them, I had to copy down patterns. There would be these connected shapes on cards and I had to copy them down. I wondered if it was for OCD or something.
For another, I had to connect the dots as fast as I could. There were two parts. For the first part, it just went 1-2-3-4-5…and for the second it went 1-a-2-b-3-c-4-d-5-e-6-f…
Then there was one where I had headphones in and I had to repeat words and sentences a guy says in one ear, while hearing loud noises or static in another ear. Sometimes there would be no sound at all in the other ear, but the one that I heard the sentence in was muffled. Another component of this test was a part where there were two DIFFERENT sentences in each ear and I had to say the one in the previously indicated ear.
i’m not done but I guess I’ll add details.
there was a tedious ink blot test (not at all like in the movies) where we spent like five minutes analyzing why i saw what I saw in the ink blot and what was it about the ink blot that made me see this and where did i see each detail and what was it that reminded me of this and dnafdnafnskaur’”;.
then there was a spelling test and a timed reading thing and math problems, which i supposed were components of an IQ test or something, but might have also been relevant to the attention deficit testing.
i can’t remember the rest
privatebiscuit said,
Wrote on October 4, 2010 @ 3:41 am
The first test sounds like a simple memory test. People can remember about 7+/- 2 pieces of information in their working memory. If the info is associated with something else or chucked together like 2, 9, 5 becomes two hundred ninety-five, then people can remember more.
The connect the dots test used to is to see if the participant can recognize the pattern. Often the odd numbers are on one side of the page while the even are on the other, the same goes for the 1-a-2-b-3-c….
The other headphone tests examined attention in various ways.
It sounds to me without knowing anything else, they were testing intelligence and attentive ability. In studies of intelligence when the factors of what intelligence is are reduced to the most important factor (called factor analysis) memory is the most important factor in intelligence.
The ink blot or Rorschach test is supposed to measure personality by tapping into the unconscious of a person and is considered to be little more than pallor game by psychologists. Studies have shown it to be invalid and have low reliability.