INTELLIGENCE TEST

• Intelligence –It is a general mental capability that involves the

ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly,
comprehend ideas and language. intellectual ability involves
comprehension, understanding, and learning form experience.
• Intelligence tests are aimed at assessing a person’s underlying
intellectual ability.
• Intelligence tests – measure the IQ or intelligence quotient of an
individual as Genius, Very Superior, High Average, Average, Low
Average, Borderline or Mentally Defective.
 INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ)

• IQ, a concept first suggested by German psychologist William

Stern and adopted by Lewis Terman in the Stanford-Binet Scale.
• The IQ was originally computed as the ratio of a person’s mental
age to his chronological (physical) age, multiplied by 100.
• Lewis Terman (1916) developed the original notion of IQ and
proposed this scale for classifying IQ scores:
LEVELS CLASSIFICATION
OVER 140 GENIUS OR NEAR GENIUS
120 – 140 VERY SUPERIOR
INTELLIGENCE
110 – 119 SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE
90 – 109 NORMAL OR AVERAGE
INTELLIGENCE
80 – 89 DULLNESS
70 – 79 BORDERLINE DEFICIENCY
UNDER 70 DEFINITE FEEBLE
MINDEDNESS
 TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE (GARDNER)

1. Verbal/Linguistic
E.g. lexical skills, formal speech, verbal debate, creative writing.
2. Body Kinesthetic (movement)
E.g. body language, physical gestures, creative dance, physical exercise,
drama.
3. Musical/rhythmic
E.g. music performance, singing, musical composition, rhythmic patterns
4. Logic/mathematic
E.g. numerical aptitude, problem solving, deciphering codes, abstract symbols and
formulae.
5. Visual/spatial
E.g. patterns and designs, painting, drawing, active, imagination, sculpture, color
schemes.
6. Interpersonal (relationship with others)
E.g. Person-to-person communication, empathy practices, group projects, collaboration
skills, receiving and giving feedback.
7. Intrapersonal (self-understanding and insight)
E.g. thinking strategies, emotional processing, knowing yourself, higher order
reasoning, focusing/concentration.
 EXAMPLE

Which of the following is the most similar to 1313323

A. ACACCBCC. ABABBCA
B. CACAABCD. ACACCDC
Jenny has some chocolates. She eats two and gives half of the
remainder to Lisa. If Lisa has six chocolates, how many does
Jenny have in the beginning?
A. 6 C. 14
B. 12 D. 18
Which of the following items is not like the others in the list?
duck, raft, canoe, stone, rubber ball
A.Duck B. Canoe C. Stone D. Rubber ball

What do steam and ice have in common.

A. They can both harm skin.
B. They are both made from water.
C. They are both found in the kitchen.
D. They are both the products of water at extreme temperatures.
 PERSONALITY TEST

• The term “personality” has been derived from the latin root ‘persona’,
meaning “mask”.
• It refers to the “totality of what a person is “which includes all traits
(physical, psychological as well as variety of acquired habitual traits)
blended or organized within him in a characteristically unique manner that
determines his modes of behavior and his adjustments to the environment.
• There are three fundamental terms related to personality – Traits, States and
types.
• Traits are “dimensions” of individual differences in
tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts,
feelings and actions (characteristics or qualities
possessed by the individual).
• Personality States refer to a temporary behavioral
tendency.
• Personality Types are regarded as a general
description of a person.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONALITY

• Personality is self-consciousness
• One of the most important characteristics of personality is that it is a
product of hereditary and environment.
• Personality includes the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor
behaviors and covers all the conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious
also.
• It is not static but dynamic in nature.
• It is specific and unique for each and every individual.
 ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY

• Interview method Projective Method

1. Structured 1. Rorscharch Inkblots Test
2. Unstructured 2. Thematic Apperception Test
3. Stress Interview 3. Sentence Completion Test
• Inventory method
1. MMPI 4. MBTI
2. CPI 5. BFI
3. BAI
 QUALITATIVE MEASURES FOR ASSESSMENT
AND MEASUREMENTS OF PERSONALITY
•Observational Techniques* Sociometric
1. checklist 1. guess who
2. rating scale2. nominating
3. score card 3. social distance
•Projective techniques 4. sociogram
•Self Report * Personal Inventories
1. anecdotal 4. Diaries Interview
2. attitude scale 5. Inventories
3. auto-biography 6. Questionnaires
 PERSONALITY TEST
• Test that consists task designed to determine various aspects
of the personality state.
• Sample Questions are:
How would you describe a person?
* talkative and sociable
* seem to think while speaking
* would rather listen than speak
* dislike being alone
Would they rather:
*focus on practical matters, facts and what is in front of them?
* execute the plan or oversee its exercution?
* focus on the future?
*think about the past or the present?
How do they make decisions?
*compassionate and sensitive?
*dislike criticism, are like to react emotionally?
*composed, focus on rational and objective arguments?
*able to put personal feelings aside if a task requires it?
 APTITUDE TEST

• Predictive measure of a person’s likelihood of benefit from instruction

or experience.
• It refers to a specific ability (Berk 2000,319), such as carrying out
arithmetical calculations or recalling facts from information that has
been read.
• If a person displays an aptitude for a type of activity by currently
showing high specific ability in that field, one may predict that his or
her performance will increase significantly with additional training in
that area.
 TYPES OF APTITUDE

General learning: learning and understanding, reasoning and making judgements.

E.g. How well we achieve at school.
Verbal Aptitude: general lexical skills – understanding words and using them
effectively.
Numerical Aptitude: general mathematical skills – working with numbers quickly
and accurately.
Spatial aptitude: understanding geometric forms, and the understanding and
identification of patterns and their meaning.
E.g. understanding how to construct a flat pack piece of furniture from a set of
instructions.
From Perception: inspecting and perceiving details in objects, and
making visual comparisons between shapes.
E.g. studying an object under a microscope, and quality inspection of
goods.
Clerical perception: reading, analyzing and obtaining details from
written data or tabulated material. Example: proofreading, analyzing
reports and understanding graphs.
Finger dexterity: manipulating small objects quickly and
accurately.
E.g. playing a musical instrument and sewing.
Manual dexterity: skill of being able to work with your hands.
E.g. painting and decorating, building things and operating
machinery.
Motor Coordination: eye and hand coordination, and making
quick and accurate rapid movement responses.
Eg. Actually being able to assemble the flat-pack piece of
furniture once you have understood how it should be done, being
able to operate a computer keyboard quickly and accurately, and
sporting skills.
 VERBAL APTITUDE TEST

• It is the capacity for general lexical skills – the understanding of

words and the ability to use them effectively.
• Verbal reasoning tests are designed to measure basic verbal
aptitude?
• Typically such tests include spelling, grammar, word meanings,
completing sentences, synonyms (words that are the same or
similar in meaning to each other) and antonyms (words that are
opposite in meaning to each other).
 SPATIAL APTITUDE

• ‘Spatial’ is pertaining to space, and spatial abilities mean the

perceptual and cognitive abilities that enable a person to deal with
spatial relations.
• The questions within such tests typically take the form of a series of
shapes or diagrams from which you have to pick the odd one out,
identify which should come next in a sequence from a set of
alternatives, choose from a set of alternatives the diagram that will
complete an analogy or find the missing element in a matrix of figures.
 NUMERICAL APTITUDE

• Mathematical intelligence tests generally explore your ability

to reason and to perform basic arithmetic functions.
• Tests of numerical aptitude are frequently designed to test
powers of logic and ability to deal with problems in a
structured and analytical way.