Why do we take personality tests?
Many people enjoy taking personality tests during their free time, including myself. However, it is interesting to me why…
In the early 1990s, fewer than 5% of children were thought to have Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (3). Over the past few decades, rates of the disorder have…
Personality testing in the workplace (the Myers-Briggs Test)
The Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI), although not officially recognized as scientifically…
TITLE: Psychological tests in my Christmas stocking
Most people receive clothes, gift cards or other traditional gifts for Christmas. I didn’t. My mother, maybe tired of seeing me worry about what I should do after the end of my degree, decided to give me an “orientation package”: a counselling session with a guidance…
In the Rorschach Inkblot Test, subjects look at a series of ten inkblots, and their perceptions of each are interpreted to examine their personality, functioning, or underlying disorder. It was the most used projective test in the 1960s, and at one point, it was the eighth…
I think it’s pretty self-evident that more and more things are being digitized these days. With our advances in technology the production and use of computers has sky-rocketed (old news, I know).
Personality drawing tests: Do they Hold Up?
When I was about ten years old a psychologist asked me to draw a sun, a house, a river, a tree and a snake. I remember being puzzled as to why this very official looking lady who had been asking me questions for the last hour or so suddenly wanted me to draw a picture…and why so…
Is Academic Testing Truly Valid?
As a 3rd year McGill student, I have had my fair share of academic tests. Doing so, I have encountered the good, the bad…
Say My Name
I remember back in grade 9 we walked into our science class and on the projection screen was a long list of words, colors, that had been written in various inks. As we settled down, the teacher divided us into small groups and told us that our task was to go through the list and say the color of the word, not the…
About a year ago, I participated in the preliminary testing trial for a study being conducted by a master’s student at McGill. This was my first experience with psychological testing in a research setting. While going through the battery of tests, the primary…