PSYCHOLOGY AND TESTING

Psychology and Testing: Measurements and Assessments

Test and Assessment Development Analysis: Test One

WAIS-IV

The value 102 for FSIQ is 102. FSIQ signifies the full-scale IQ level of the patient, which is average for the selected patient. It is said that 130 and above is considered superior FSIQ, while 90 to 109 is average (Washington Center for Cognitive Therapy, n.d.). The value below 69 for FSIQ is claimed as intellectually deficient.

VCI indicates a verbal comprehension index for a persons ability to comprehend and understand the spoken language. The ability of the patient to think and make meaning of the language she hears and speaks is demonstrated by this measure. The value of 105 is an average depiction of the patients comprehension of the language.

PRI is the measure that shows the perceptual reasoning index. It is the individuals skills for appropriately thinking and interpreting the given visual information. It is more related to nonverbal thinking patterns and the preceptory analysis of the patient. The given score of 107 is considered average for the 35-year-old African American woman.

WMI is the denotation of the working memory index. The very name suggests that the individual can hold information after taking it in with alert mental capabilities to perform accordingly. It could be related to mental operations on numbers like addition, subtraction, etc. A score of 92 for the selected patient implies an average classification for her memory condition.

PSI is the processing speed index for an individual who would be evaluated for processing simple information and the time taken to process it. The quickness and efficiency with which he can determine the facts and give a monitor or visual speed for it would be measured by this index. A score of 100 is an average category within which the current patient falls.

The cultural concerns about her impact on the effectiveness of the test administration could be uncertainty that they might feel with healthcare professionals. Research has suggested that African Americans are more comfortable with doctors of the same ethnicity as racism fears linger in their minds, and people of the same color are perceived as support by them (Guffey & Yang, 2012). Ethical issues include nonmaleficence, autonomy, justice, and beneficence (Peters, 2014).

Test and Assessment Development Analysis: Test Two

MMPI-2 Clinical

MMPI-2 contains ten clinical scales that show certain mental health indexes leading to the condition that might or might not need intervention. The first scale for the patient is Hypochondriasis (HS), a mental disorder in which the patient suffers from health anxiety that they might get ill. A score of 86 for the African American woman suggests that she needs intervention since the scores are based on T-scores. A T-score above 65 means intervention is needed, a T-score between 45 and 54 indicates average results, and no interpretation might be needed. In contrast, a T-score below 45 is extremely low, needing no interpretation (University of Minnesota Press, n.d.).

The second scale is for depression (D), for which the patient scored 112, which is quite high and needs intervention. The next scale is hysteria (HY), for which the patient scored 87, again suggesting a need for interpretation as a result is higher than...

…to her depression, catering to the need for an intervention. Moreover, since she is an introvert, as depicted by a previous score, SOD is the social discomfort she usually experiences when she is among people. Her social avoidance score is 84, which is high and needs an intervention.

The patient does not show any family problems, and this is said based on the results of her score for FAM (family problems). The score is 42, which is utterly low than the cut score of 65, so no interpretation is needed. Work interferences (WRK) are the difficulties that the patient might undergo as she would have trouble communicating with others or might show negative attitudes towards them. Her score of 73 is a sign that an intervention is essential for her in this case. Lastly, TRT (negative treatment indicator) is about her discomfort or confusion towards the healthcare professionals as she is already paranoid, which was evident from her previous score. Her TRT score is 79, indicating that she needs an intervention to change her beliefs.

Clinical Formation

Although the above sections of the paper have demonstrated the individual scales and their scores for depicting an analysis of the selected industry-standard tools, they also suggest the areas where medical intervention is needed for the African American woman. Based on the data provided, the patient might suffer from major depression or suicidal depression, where mood swings and suicidal thoughts are the primary symptoms of the condition (Lindberg, 2021). It is said that the psychometric data for the two previously discussed tests and assessment scores how key indications where interventions…