Alternative to Psychological Testing

Anima Sen
Additional contact information
Anima Sen: University of Delhi, Delhi

Psychology and Developing Societies, 1991, vol. 3, issue 2, 203-220

Abstract: Mental tests have come in for a volley of criticisms ever since their inception at the beginning of the present century. Such criticisms came from many quarters, the promi nent among them being that the successful performance on such tests was primarily dependent upon acquired knowledge which was not equitably available to all indivi duals. The problem of bias (resulting from cultural, socio-economic and racial) has been experienced as discriminative against certain social and ethnic groups. Recent developments in psychology have mobilised efforts in the quest of alternatives to psychological testing technology. This paper examines the suitability of various attempts for measuring intelligence in terms of information processing speed (RT), inspection time (IT), STM, iconic image duration. It also reviews attempts made to diagnose functional psychosis in terms of memory processes in the form of Trace Inaccessibility (TI) of memory and assessment of personality in terms of signal detection parameters.

Date: 1991
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097133369100300205 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:psydev:v:3:y:1991:i:2:p:203-220

DOI: 10.1177/097133369100300205

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Psychology and Developing Societies
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().