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Name and describe four psychological tests commonly used when assessing children.
 
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Why is it important to use tests?
 
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Developmental tests are used to assess infants and young children, and are generally carried out for the purposes of screening, diagnosis, and evaluation of early development. Evaluating a child's intellectual and educational functioning is a key ingredient in clinical assessments for a wide range of childhood disorders. Projective tests present the child with ambiguous stimuli such as inkblots or pictures of people, and the child is asked to describe what she or he sees. Personality is usually considered an enduring trait or pattern of traits that characterize the individual and determine how he or she interacts with the environment (Roberts & DelVecchio, 2000). In the clinical context, neuropsychological assessment attempts to link brain functioning with objective measures of behavior known to depend on an intact central nervous system.

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A test is a task or set of tasks given under standard conditions with the purpose of assessing some aspect of the child's knowledge, skill, or personality. Most tests are standardized on a clearly defined reference groupfor example, children of a certain age, sex, or SES, referred to as a norm group.. An individual child's scores can then be compared with the scores of a comparable group of children to determine the extent to which that child's scores deviate from the norm.





 

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