There are many kinds of psychological tests. According to 196 1 American psychologists, there were almost 3000 psychological test scales at that time. For your convenience, we subjectively divide it into the following categories.
1. According to the test content, psychological test can be divided into mental health test, personality tendency test and personality test. Mental health test is to test the mental health of the subjects.
Generally speaking, MMPI· Minnesota Multiple Personality Test is used. Personality orientation test is also called sexual orientation test. The purpose is to discover the potential talents of the subjects and deeply understand their advantages and development trends. Generally speaking, aptitude test can be divided into general aptitude test and special aptitude tests. Universal orientation test is to test a person's special potential in many aspects.
Special aptitude test is to test a person's single potential ability, such as musical ability or mechanical operation ability. Personality test is also called personality test: it tests psychological indicators such as mood, need, motivation, interest, attitude, personality and temperament.
2. According to the test media, testing can be divided into language testing and non-language testing. A language or writing test is a test conducted by asking questions or answering in writing. This is the main way of psychological test, which is relatively easy to write and implement. Some advanced human mental abilities can only be tested by language.
The post-analysis of this test method is more standardized and the variables are smaller, so this method is often used in group testing. However, this method is not suitable for people who have difficulty in language or character recognition, and it is also difficult to compare subjects with different language and cultural backgrounds. Non-verbal tests or operational tests.
Including all kinds of tests with pictures, instruments, models, tools and objects as test media, the testee reflects psychological images to the tester through real-time use, identification, interpretation or operation of the test media, and the tester evaluates the psychological characteristics and psychological state reflected by these images according to certain interpretation rules or patterns.
Non-verbal writing test is suitable for people with language expression disorders and for comparing subjects with different language and cultural backgrounds. Some special ability tests, such as psychological tests of visual perception, association and graphic judgment, must rely on non-verbal testing media.