Background of personality testing
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Can someone please provide me with a brief background on personality testing, psychodiagnosis testing, and social/adaptive/problem behavior testing?
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This solution discusses personality, behavior, and psycho-diagnostic testing. The discussion goes into the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, the Halstead-Reitan Battery and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. It also explains why these different tests are conducted. The explanation is provided in 298 words with four references.
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test is commonly used to ascertain personality type. The Halstead-Reitan Battery, consists of a series of 8 tests used to evaluate a person's brain and nervous system function. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) uses tools like puzzles, questions, patterns involving math, reading, and comprehension skills and is usually used with assessing the IQ of a person over the age of 16 (1) .
There are many different things that assessments can be used for. Assessments can be used ...
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