Psychological Assessment II

Recommended Prerequisites

Psychological Evaluation I, Statistics, Research Methods, Differential Psychology.

Teaching Methods

Lectures: expository method supported by slides; interrogative methods; oral or written reflection based on the presentation of audio-visual materials.

Practical classes: active methods, such as the presentation of testing materials and personality inventories; video presentation of real cases; scoring and interpretation exercises in small groups; field works – administration, scoring and interpretation of tests and personality inventories.

Learning Outcomes

To acquire theoretical knowledge concerning the use of intelligence and personality assessment instruments, including its psychometric basis.

- To train competences in administrating, scoring and interpreting results gathered from intelligence and personality assessment instruments.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Lectures:

1. Intelligence assessment: Using tests to assess intelligence, pros and cons. The evaluation process based on tests. New trends in intelligence assessment: dynamic assessment, assessment using a computer; assessment of "new" forms of intelligence - the example of Emotional Intelligence.

2. Personality assessment: History of personality assessment. The process of personality assessment. Construction and validation of personality inventories. Introduction to projective techniques.

Practical courses:

1. Study of intelligence tests and scales standardized in Portugal, such as: the Wechsler Intelligence Scales – WPPSI-R; WISC-III and WAIS-III; Raven Progressive Colored Matrix; Reasoning Battery of Tests.

2. Examples of instruments for the assessment of personality and psychopathology: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire; Brief Symptom Inventory. Brief introduction to some projective techniques.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria João Rama Seabra Santos

Assessment Methods

Periodic
Theoretical component - The classification of the theoretical component is based on a written an exam (type A test): 50.0%
Practical component - The classification of the practical component corresponds to the results of evaluations carried out throughout the semester, namely: one type C work, two type B field works, and questions answered in the classroom: 50.0%

Final
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Aiken, L. R. (1999). Personality assessment: Methods and practices (3rd ed). Gottingen: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.

Aiken, L. R. (2004). Assessment of intellectual functioning (2nd ed.). New York: Plenum Press.

Almeida, L. S., Simões, M. R., Machado C. & Gonçalves M. M. (Coords.) (2004). Avaliação psicológica: Instrumentos validados para a população portuguesa (Vol. 2). Coimbra: Quarteto.

Fernández-Ballesteros R. (Ed.) (2003). Encyclopedia of psychological assessment (Vols. 1-2). London: Sage Publications.

Gonçalves, M. M., Simões, M. R., Almeida, L. S. & Machado, C. (Coords.) (2003). Avaliação psicológica: Instrumentos validados para a população portuguesa (Vol. 1). Coimbra: Quarteto.

Weiner, I. B. & Greene, R. L. (2008). Handbook of personality assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. [Cap. 1: “History of personality assessment”; Cap. 2: “The personality assessment process”].