How can you differentiate between verbal and performance tests of intelligence?
Answers
Individual Test:
(i) Administered to one individual at a time.
(ii) Requires the administrator to establish a rapport with the subject and be sensitive to his/her feelings, mood and expressions during the testing sessions which provides understanding of other aspects of subjects personality.
(iii) Allows people to answer orally or in written form or manipulate the objects as per the tester’s instructions.
• Example: Stanford Binet intelligence scale, WAIS, WISSC, Alexander Pass along test.
Group Test:
(i) Administered to several individuals at a time simultaneously.
(ii) Do not allow an opportunity to be familiar with the subjects’ feelings.
(iii) Seek answers in a Multiple-choice format.
(iv) It is relatively economical and less time consuming.
Difference between verbal and performance test of intelligence are
• Verbal test
* Requires subject to give verbal
response either orally or in written
form.
* Example: Verbal group test, Stanfort
Binet intelligence scale.
• Performance test
* Requires the subject to manipulate
objects to perform the test.
* Example: Kohs Block design test,
draw a men test by pramila Pathak.