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UGC NET Psycology Psychological testing Flashcards
55 question-and-answer cards covering Psychological testing as it is examined in UGC NET Psycology. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the Psychological testing deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
What does the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) measure?
Executive functions—abstract reasoning, cognitive flexibility, and the ability to shift cognitive sets—often sensitive to frontal-lobe dysfunction.
What is the Bender-Gestalt Test used for?
A visuomotor test in which the examinee copies geometric designs; used to screen for perceptual-motor difficulties and possible organic brain impairment.
Define aptitude and how it differs from achievement.
Aptitude is the potential or capacity to learn or acquire a skill given training (future-oriented); achievement measures knowledge or skill already acquired (past learning).
What is the difference between an aptitude test and an intelligence test?
Aptitude tests measure potential for a specific area or skill (e.g., mechanical, clerical); intelligence tests measure general cognitive ability across broad domains.
Name a widely used multiple aptitude battery.
The Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT) or the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB); the ASVAB is used for military selection.
What is personality assessment?
The measurement of relatively stable patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors (traits) using objective inventories and projective techniques.
Distinguish objective from projective personality tests.
Objective tests use structured, standardized items with fixed responses scored objectively (e.g., MMPI, 16PF); projective tests present ambiguous stimuli to elicit unstructured responses revealing unconscious dynamics (e.g., Rorschach, TAT).
What is the MMPI and what type of test is it?
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—an objective, empirically-keyed self-report inventory of clinical (psychopathology) and validity scales.
Name two major projective techniques and their stimuli.
The Rorschach Inkblot Test (ambiguous inkblots) and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT, ambiguous pictures about which the person tells stories).
What are the Big Five personality traits measured by inventories like the NEO-PI?
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (the OCEAN model).
What are interest inventories used for?
To assess an individual's preferences for activities, occupations, and topics—mainly for career counseling and vocational guidance.
Name two classic interest inventories.
The Strong Interest Inventory (Strong Vocational Interest Blank) and the Kuder Preference Record/Kuder Occupational Interest Survey.
On which theory is the Strong Interest Inventory's modern scoring based?
Holland's RIASEC theory of vocational personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
What is the semantic differential technique?
An attitude-measurement scale developed by Osgood in which a concept is rated on a series of bipolar adjective pairs (e.g., good–bad) along a 7-point continuum.
What are the three main dimensions of meaning identified by Osgood's semantic differential?
Evaluation (good–bad), Potency (strong–weak), and Activity (active–passive)—the E-P-A dimensions.
What is a Stapel scale and how does it differ from the semantic differential?
A Stapel scale measures attitude toward a single adjective (no bipolar opposite) using a vertical scale typically ranging from −5 to +5 with no neutral zero shown; unlike the semantic differential it uses one adjective rather than bipolar pairs and needs no pretested bipolar opposites.
What is a Likert scale?
A summated-rating attitude scale where respondents indicate agreement with statements on an ordered continuum (e.g., 5 points: Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree); item scores are summed to give a total attitude score.
How is a Likert scale constructed and scored?
Generate favorable/unfavorable statements, administer with agreement response categories, score each item (e.g., 1–5, reverse-scoring negative items), retain items via item analysis (item-total correlation), and sum item scores for a total.
What is clinical assessment/testing primarily used for?
Diagnosis of mental disorders, treatment planning, and monitoring of psychopathology and personality functioning in clinical and counseling settings (e.g., MMPI, Rorschach, intelligence/neuropsychological tests).
What is the role of psychological testing in organizational/business settings?
Personnel selection, placement, promotion, training-needs assessment, and performance/leadership appraisal—using aptitude, personality, integrity, and assessment-center methods to predict job performance.
How is psychological testing applied in education?
For achievement and aptitude assessment, ability grouping, diagnosis of learning difficulties, evaluation of instruction, and educational/vocational guidance of students.
What is the focus of testing in counseling settings?
To help individuals with self-understanding and decision-making—assessing interests, aptitudes, values, and personality to guide educational, vocational, and personal-adjustment choices.
Why is military psychology historically important for testing, and name an early group test?
Mass selection and classification of recruits drove development of group intelligence testing—Army Alpha (literate recruits) and Army Beta (non-English-speaking/illiterate recruits) in World War I.
What is the role of testing in career guidance?
To match an individual's measured interests, aptitudes, abilities, values, and personality with suitable occupations, supporting informed vocational choice and career development (e.g., using interest inventories and aptitude batteries).
What this deck covers
The Psychological testing deck follows the UGC NET Psycology Psychological testing syllabus — 7 chapters and 20 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 7.9 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 173 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
Psychological testing flashcards FAQ
How many Psychological testing flashcards are in this UGC NET Psycology deck?
55 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
Are these UGC NET Psycology flashcards free?
Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 55-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the Psychological testing cards cover?
They follow the UGC NET Psycology Psychological testing syllabus — 7 chapters and 20 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
How should I use these flashcards?
Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then drill the deck. Examius schedules each card with spaced repetition, so cards you keep missing come back sooner and ones you know drift further apart.