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Items are grouped into 5 sets. Each set has 12 items. So, total number of items are 60.

It is coping with expectations of significant people.

There are 48 MPI.

Frustration is a feeling of failure or obstacle in attainment of goal.

The ‘cause’ or event or situation manipulated by the experimenter to see if it will have predicted effect on some other event or situation.

The effect or the factor that is measured in an experiment. It changes because of manifestation of independent variable.

According to Thorndike- 

Concrete—ability to deal with objects. 

Abstract—ability to deal with symbols and numbers. 

Social—ability to deal with people and their activities.

It is totality of conscious experiences which is a cognitive structure and starts developing at the age of two.

Standard or value based on measurements of a large group of people. It is also be named as typical score or criteria. There are various types of norms like age norms, sex norms, class norms, regional norms.

Any variable other than independent variable which influences dependent variable is known as intervening variable.

The test items cover all aspects of anxiety, e.g. subjective and objective.

• Physical 

• Social

• Temperamental 

• Educational

• Moral 

• Intellectual

Psychological attributes can not be reduced to zero.

Ability to adjust is a faculty of intelligence. High intelligence facilitates adjustment.

It is psychological process of coping with the demands of the self and the environment

Emotional area Educational area and Social area.

Adaptation is structural or functional change that enhances the organism survival value.

It is a biological mechanism. Adjustment is a psychological process of coping with the demands.

Psychometric tests are standardized and objective measuring instrument used to assess an individual’s standing relative to others on some mental or behavioural characteristics.

• Global Adjustment scale developed by Sanjay Vohra, uses sten scores, covers six dimensions—emotional, family, health, social environment, sex and school.

• Bell’s Adjustment Inventory.

A test that does not discriminate examinees on the basis of their cultural experiences e.g., RSPM.

To get the score in %percentage and to avoid decimals.

The tests which are scored only on the basis of accuracy, are known as power tests. Here time is not the variable, e.g., RSPM.

The tests, which are scored on the basis of speed and accuracy are known as speed tests. e.g. Stanford Binet Test or Wais.

Mental age/chronological age x 100.

(i) IQ is relatively constant. It is not increasing with the age.

(ii)  Average IQ is always 100.

Battery is a collection of tests.

Wechsler’s Adult intelligence scale (WAIS).

• It is the ratio between MA and CA. 

• It is not intelligence. It is simply a measure of intelligence. 

• William Stem gave the concept of IQ.

Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale.

A test in which the role of language is minimized. The task requiring overt motor responses other than verbal, e.g., Bhatia’s Battery of intelligence test.

General Mental Ability Test (GMAT) by Dr. Mohsin.

Mental age is a measure of intellectual functioning expressed in terms of age. The concept was given by Alfred Binet.

SPM is non-verbal test of intelligence.

Percentage refers to a score attained out of hundred. Percentile is position of the individual among hundred.

It measures general intelligence (g-factor), Test particularly suitable for comparing VIVA -VOCE QUESTIONS people with their immediate capacity of power of observation and clear thinking. The test measures eductive component of ‘g’ factor.

Eductive component is the ability to develop/forge new insights, ability to see meaning and relationships.

• Answers to all the items are checked with the help of scoring key. 

• Total number of correct answers are added for each part. 

• Scores for all the parts are added to get a total score. 

• Scatter of scores are checked from expected score table to find out discrepancies. 

• Corresponding percentiles and grades are calculated with the help of manual.