Psychological Assessment: Get to Know Yourself Better 🔗

Introduction

Assessment and testing is an important pillar in the measurement of behaviour and attitudes. Special tests, inventories and measurement techniques have been developed to assess all sorts of behavioural variables such as intelligence, personality, achievement, motivation and attitudes. Since the attainment of a full professional understanding of psychological testing is beyond the requirements of this module, the course will be limited to a general understanding of the subject with some practical applications to a few simple and culture-free tests. Without methods and techniques of assessment, we cannot understand the individual differences between people, and hence we cannot properly help them to achieve their objectives in life nor can we help them to overcome their psychological disorders or to change their negative beliefs and attitudes. Some of these issues have been around a long time, whereas others have come on the scene more recently. The main aim of this module is to help the learners understand the determinants of human behaviour that lead to individual differences and the contributions of modern psychological assessment in developing tests that measure these differences. Another objective is to learn the skills of applying some of these tests.