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Title Encyclopedia of psychological assessment / edited by Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (1164 pages) : illustrations
Contents Achievement Motivation -- Achievement Testing -- Adaptive and Tailored Testing (Includes IRT and Non IRT Application) -- Ambulatory Assessment -- Analogue Methods -- Anger, Hostility and Aggression Assessment -- Antisocial Disorders Assessment -- Anxiety Assessment -- Anxiety Disorders Assessment -- Applied Behavioural Analysis -- Applied Fields, Clinical -- Applied Fields, Education -- Applied Fields, Forensic -- Applied Fields, Gerontology -- Applied Fields, Health -- Applied Fields, Neuropsychology -- Applied Fields, Organisations -- Applied Fields, Psychophysiology -- Applied Fields, Work and Industry -- Assessment Process -- Assessor's Bias -- Attachment -- Attention -- Attitudes -- Attribution Styles -- Autobiography -- Automated Test Assembly Systems -- Behavioural Assessment Techniques -- Behavioural Settings and Behaviour Mapping -- Big Five Model Assessment -- Brain Activity Measurement -- Burn Out Assessment -- Career and Personnel Development -- Caregiver Burden -- Case Formulation -- Centres (Assessment Centres) -- Child and Adolescent Assessment in Clinical Settings -- Children Custody -- Children with Disabilities -- Classical and Modern Item Analysis -- Classical Test Theory -- Classification (General, Including Diagnosis) -- Clinical Judgement -- Coaching Candidates to Score Higher on Tests -- Cognitive Ability: g Factor -- Cognitive Abilities: Multiple Cognitive Abilities -- Cognitive decline//Impairment -- Cognitive Maps -- Cognitive//Mental Abilities in Work and Organizational Settings -- Cognitive Plasticity -- Cognitive Processes: Current Status, Historical Perspective -- Cognitive Psychology and Assessment Practices -- Cognitive Styles -- Communicative Language Abilities -- Computer-Based Testing
Copying Styles -- Counselling, Assessment in -- Couple Assessment in Clinical Settings -- Creativity -- Criterion-Referenced Testing: Methods and Procedures -- Cross-Cultural Assessment -- Dangerous//Violence Potential Behaviour -- Decision (Including Decision Theory) -- Dementia -- Development (General) -- Development: Intelligence//Cognitive, Language, Psychomotor, Socio-Emotional -- Diagnosis of Mental and Behavioural Disorders -- Diagnostic Testing in Educational Settings -- Dynamic Assessment (Learning Potential Testing, Testing-the-Limits) -- Eating Disorders -- Emotional Intelligence -- Emotions -- Empowerment -- Environmental Attitudes and Values -- Equipment for Assessing Basic Processes -- Ethics -- Evaluability Assessment -- Evaluation -- Program Evaluation (General) -- Evaluation in Higher Education -- Executive Functions Disorders -- Explanation -- Factor Analysis -- Confirmatory -- Factor Analysis -- Exploratory -- Family -- Field Survey -- Protocols Development -- Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence -- Formats for Assessment -- Generalizability Theory -- Giftedness -- Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) -- Health -- History of Psychological Assessment -- Identity Disorders -- Idiographic Methods -- Instructional Strategies -- Intelligence Assessment (General) -- Intelligence Assessment through Cohort and Time -- Interest -- Interview -- Interview in Behavioural and Health Settings -- Interview in Child and Family Assessment -- Interview in Work and Organizational Settings -- Irrational Beliefs -- Item Banking -- Item Bias -- Item Response Theory -- Models and Features -- Job Characteristics -- Job stress -- Landscapes and Natural Environments -- Language (General) -- Latent Class analysis -- Leadership in Organizational settings
Leadership personality -- Learning disabilities -- Learning strategies -- Life events -- Locus of control -- Memory (general) -- Memory disorders -- Mental retardation -- Mood disorders -- Motivation -- Motor skills in work settings -- Multidimensional item response theory -- Multidimensional scaling methods -- Multimodal assessment (including triangulation) -- Multitrait-multimethod matrices -- Needs assessment -- Neuropsychological test batteries -- Norm-referenced testing: methods and procedures -- Objectivity -- Observational methods(general) -- Observational techniques in clinical settings -- Observational techniques in work and organizational settings -- Optimism -- Organizational culture -- Organizational structure, assessment of -- Outcome assessment treatment assessment -- Outcome evaluation in neuropsychological rehabilitation -- Palliative care -- Perceived environmental quality -- Performance -- Performance standards: constructed response item formats -- Performance standards: selected response item formats -- Person situation (environment) assessment -- Personal constructs -- Personality assessment (general) -- Personality assessment through longitudinal designs -- Personnel selection, assessment in -- Physical abilities in work settings -- Planning -- Planning classroom tests -- Post occupancy evaluation for the built environment -- Practical intelligence: conceptual aspects -- Practical intelligence: its measurement -- Prediction (general) -- Prediction: clinical vs. statistical -- Pre school children -- Problem solving -- Projective techniques -- Prosocial behaviour -- Psychoeducational test batteries -- Psychoneuroimmunology -- Psychophysiological equipment and measurements -- Qualitative methods -- Quality of life -- Reliability -- Report (general) -- Reporting test results in education
Residential and treatment facilities -- Risk and prevention in work and organizational settings -- The self (general), Self control -- Self efficacy -- Self observation (self monitoring) -- Self presentation measurement -- Self-report distortions (including faking, lying, malingering, social desirability) -- Self report questionnaires -- Self reports -- Self reports in behavioural (behavioral) clinical settings -- Self reports in work and organizational settings -- Sensation seeking -- Social climate -- Social competence (including social skills, assertion), Social networks -- Social resources -- Socio-demographic conditions -- Sociometric methods -- Standard for educational and psychological testing -- Stress -- Stressors: physical -- Stressors: social -- Subjective methods -- Substance abuse -- Temperament -- Test accommodations for disabilities -- Test adaptation translation methods -- Test anxiety -- Test designs: developments -- Test directions and scoring -- Test user competence responsible test use -- Testing in the second language in minorities -- Testing through the Internet -- Theoretical perspective: behavioural -- Theoretical perspective: cognitive
Theoretical perspective: cognitive behavioural -- Theoretical perspective: constructivism -- Theoretical perspective: psychoanalytic -- Theoretical perspective: psychological behavioursm -- Theoretical perspective: psychometrics -- Theoretical perspective: systemic -- Thinking disorders assessment -- Time orientation -- Total quality management -- Trait state models -- Triarchic intelligence components -- Type A: a proposed psychosocial risk factor for cardiovascular diseases -- Type C: a proposed psychosocial risk factor for cancer -- Unobtrusive measures -- Utility -- Validity (general) -- Validity: construct -- Validity: content -- Validity: criterion related -- Values -- Visuo-perceptual impairments -- Voluntary movement -- Well being (including life satisfaction) -- Wisdom -- Work performance
Summary Once you let a clinical psychologist lay hands on this book, it is quite difficult to get it back again'. - Martin Guha, Librarian, Institute of Psychiatry, London. The Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment is a landmark reference work and constitutes a definitive resource for academics, practitioners and students working in any field of applied psychological science. Psychological assessment is a key component of psychological work. Devices of scientific assessment are necessary for adequate describing, diagnosis, predicting, explaining or changing the behaviour of all subjects under exami
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Psychometrics -- Encyclopedias
Psychological tests.
Psychological Tests
PSYCHOLOGY -- Assessment, Testing & Measurement.
Psychological tests
Psychometrics
Psychodiagnostiek.
Psykologiska mätmetoder -- uppslagsverk.
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Fernández Ballesteros, Rocío
LC no. 2002104967
ISBN 9781847877178
1847877176
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9781282559967
9786612559969
6612559969
1849725861
9781849725866
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9781412950633
Other Titles Encyclopaedia of psychological assessment