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Culture Fair Intelligence Test

The Culture Fair Intelligence Test is designed to measure individual intelligence in a way that reduces the influence of verbal fluency, culture, and education level. It contains 4 subscales and is appropriate for individuals ages 4 to adults. The test administrator should choose the appropriate scale based on their evaluation of the examinee's potential ability level to avoid ceiling effects. The Basic Personality Inventory is a 240-item true-false personality inventory that measures 12 scales of psychopathology organized into 6 broad categories. It can be used for both normal and psychiatric populations to help select appropriate treatment programs.

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Culture Fair Intelligence Test

The Culture Fair Intelligence Test is designed to measure individual intelligence in a way that reduces the influence of verbal fluency, culture, and education level. It contains 4 subscales and is appropriate for individuals ages 4 to adults. The test administrator should choose the appropriate scale based on their evaluation of the examinee's potential ability level to avoid ceiling effects. The Basic Personality Inventory is a 240-item true-false personality inventory that measures 12 scales of psychopathology organized into 6 broad categories. It can be used for both normal and psychiatric populations to help select appropriate treatment programs.

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Culture Fair Intelligence Test

-measure individual intelligence in a manner designed to reduce, as much as possible, the influence
of verbal fluency, cultural climate, and educational level.

- each scale contains 4 subtests

-started by cattel, precise scientific research of Charles spear

Scale 1- 4-8 years old, may also be used for handicapped individuals, not exclusively group
administrable

Scale 2and 3- wholly group administrable, can be one-on-one

-can appropriately be used with children as young as eight years and equally appropriate with older
children and most adults.

Scale 3- age 13 or 14 onward either scale 2 or 3 can be employed

-has greater refinement in the higher intelligence ranges is obtained in scale 3.

-higher difficulty level of items in this scale.

- can be administered to college students or with individuals with higher ability level.

 Choice of scales, the test administrator should be guided by his own evaluation of potential
ability level to be tested. When he reasonably anticipates ceiling effects with scale 2 he
would use scale 3 *

Basic Personality Inventory

BPI is designed to identify areas of personal maladjustment or psychopathology.

12 scale, 240 item true-false personality inventory measuring relatively differentiated


psychopathology.

Scales can be organized into 6 broad categories:

A. Measures of Inadequate or Deviant Socialization and Impulse Control


Interpersonal Problems
Alienation
Impulse Expression
B. Measures of mood and personal/emotional adjustment
Depression
Anxiety
Hypochondriasis
C. Measures of Cognitive Functioning
Persecutory Ideas
Thinking Disorder
D. Measures of Self Perception and Sociability
Self Depreciation
Social Introversion
E. Measure of Critical Deviant Behaviors
Deviation
F. Measure of Test Taking Style
Denial

-can be used both for normal and psychiatric populations for the selection of appropriate
treatment programs
-can be used in clinical setting, personnel selection,
-used extensively in the classification of young offenders.
-useful in determining the progress of individuals undergoing treatment for alcohol and
drug dependency, chronic renal failure, pain perception and fibrositis, eating disorders.

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