Psychological Assessment
Psychological Assessment
Psychological assessment refers to the process of gathering information and evaluating various aspects of an individual’s psychological functioning, including cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional states, and behavioral patterns. It involves the use of standardized tests, questionnaires, interviews, and observations to gather data and make inferences about an individual’s psychological characteristics.
Psychological assessments serve several purposes, including: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses, Evaluation of Intellectual Abilities, Personality Assessment, Assessment of Emotional Functioning, and Screening and selection.
Fields of Application
Neuropsychology
Reliable and valid neuropsychological assessments that are relevant to cognitive function.
Sport
Identify exceptional potential, nurture athletes’ growth, and explore the realm of sports psychology.
Human Resources
Psychological evaluations tailored for human resource purposes.
Assessment Dimensions
Attention
Attention is the central basic component for a variety of processes, such as perception, memory and problem-solving ability, and thus represents one of the most important prerequisites for all types of cognitive performance.
- Alertness
- Concentration
- Divided attention
- Focused attention
- Neglect
- Selective attention
- Spatial attention
- Sustained attention
- Vigilance
- Visual search
Psychological Dimensions
Psychological symptoms often occur in connection with and interact with organic damage, for example, depressive symptoms can occur in response to organic damage. Their recording is therefore an important part both for the diagnosis of disorders and for formulating rehabilitation measures.
- Aggression
- Mood and wellbeing
- Emotional stability & control
- Social self-concept
- Stress & burnout
- Reliability
- Risk avoidance
- Self-control
- Sense of responsibility
- Social conformity
Cognitive Abilities
The broad concept of cognitive abilities covers all higher performances of the brain, from information processing speed to spatial perception and logical reasoning. They are therefore essential for perceiving, understanding and evaluating road traffic situations and reacting to them correctly and in a timely manner.
- Anticipation of movement
- Complex problem-solving
- Critical thinking
- Interference
- Logical reasoning
- Global assessment of cognitive ability
- Multi-tasking
- Numerical ability
- Reading comprehension
- Spatial ability
- Technical comprehension
- Work-related cognitive skills
Executive Functions
Executive functions play a decisive role in steering action, i.e. in anticipating, planning, and executing an action in a targeted manner. In everyday life, executive functions are needed above all in complex situations, such as driving a car or doing sports.
- Cognitive flexibility
- Figural fluency
- Interference
- Logical reasoning
- Perseveration
- Planning ability
- Response inhibition
- Task switching
Memory
Memory skills serve to retain, organize and, if necessary, retrieve recorded information. Memory disorders often occur in a highly specific way, for example only in long-term memory or only when calling up verbal information.
- Long-term memory
- Short-term memory
- Working memory
Reactive Behavior & Visual Functions
In critical situations, such as when crossing an intersection, it is important to get a quick overview of potential dangers and to respond appropriately to them so as not to endanger oneself or others.
- Ability to react
- Arousal
- Obtaining an overview
- Peripheral perception
- Stress tolerance
Sensomotor Functions
Sensomotorics is the interplay of visual information and motor actions that enables targeted movements. This ability enables everyday activities such as cooking or sewing, and controlling heavy machines.
- Eye-hand coordination
- Fine motor skills
Social Cognition
Social cognition is the ability to understand their fellow human beings and to put ones self in their position. It develops in childhood, but can also be impaired in adulthood by various psychological disorders and after neurological diseases.
- Empathy
- Theory of Mind
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