Psychology
Viva Questions
Please note: These are only suggestive questions. The external examiner can ask questions other than those mentioned below.
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What is a psychometric test?
In which psychological attributes psychological assessment is possible?
What are the characteristics of a good psychological test?
What do you understand by standardization?
What is reliability? Mention and explain important types of reliability?
What is validity? Mention and explain important types of validity?
What are norms? Why do we convert the raw scores in percentiles or sten scores? Mention and explain important types of norms?
What is the importance of rapport formation in testing?
What is the importance of instructions in testing?
What are the ethical guidelines that should be kept in mind for administering psychological tests?
Tests
Please note: The examiner can
MPI
1. Revis
GAS
1. GA
SPM
1. Revise
IPAT- ASQ
1. Revise
DBDA
1. Revise
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Full form
Author
Which psychological attribute
is being measured?
Mention the factors that are
being assessed in these
psychometric tests
Explain
Explain
Explain
What do you
What do you
personality
adjustment
intelligence
understand by
understand by
anxiety
aptitude?
Explain the factors that are
being assessed in these
psychometric tests
Which norms are being used in
this test?
What are the possible uses of
this test?
Tests
Name other tests that measure
MPI
GAS
SPM
the same psychological
attribute
Age group on which this test
can be used
Advantages and Disadvantages
of this test?
Other questions
1. What is
Maudsley
in MPI?
2. What is a
long scale
and short
scale?
3. What are
the
limitations
of
1. Name other
verbal/nonverbal and
performance
intelligence
tests?
2. What are
culture fair
and culture
biased test?
3. How is
IPAT- ASQ
DBDA
personalit
y tests?
4. How are
projective
techniques
better than
paperpencil
personalit
y test?
5. What are
personalit
y tests?
What are
the
advantage
s and
disadvanta
ges?
Case Profile
1. Explain your case profile in short.
intelligence
different
from
aptitude and
interest?
Please note: you should thoroughly go through the psychological literature of your case profile. For instance if your case profile is on autism,
you should be able to mention the symptoms, causes and remediation for autistic children. If your case profile is on adolescence, you should
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be able to define and describe the chief characteristics of adolescence and relate them to your participant.
Mention to the examiner if your case is a referral case or a voluntary case.
Mention the methods that you have used to collect data on the participants life- Psychological Testing/Unstructured interview.
What is a case study? List any two advantages and two disadvantages.
How can you say that your case profile is not a subjective work?
What methods of enquiry have you used for the case profile?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of unstructured interviews and structured interviews? Which one have you used for your case profile?
What tests have you used for your case profile? What were the findings? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these tests?
