Question

Psychological tests are commonly used to assist with decisions regarding:

	a.	Academic placement
	b.	Hiring
	c.	Psychiatric diagnosis
	d.	All of the above

Answer 1

Answer,

Option d is correct.

Psychometric tests are applied in diverse fields such as determining the intellectual abilities of students in schools and colleges using Ravens Standard Progresisve Matrices, Weschler’s Intelligence Scale for Children, assigning jobs in companies based on individual’s scores in intelligence tests, bperosnality inventories like the BIG FiVE, and in diagnosing mental illnesses and severe emotional problems such a study by using personality inventories like the Minnesota Multiphasic Perosnality Inventory to identify the individual’s proneness to bipolar disorders, psychosis, major depression,etc.