Find the odd one.
2017
Find the odd one.
- A.
TAT
- B.
16-PF
- C.
Raven's test
- D.
Draw-a-Man test
Attempted by 4 students.
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Correct answer: C
Concept. Psychological tests fall into two broad families by what they measure. A personality test assesses how a person characteristically feels, behaves, and relates to others — their traits, motives, and emotional make-up. An intelligence (cognitive ability) test instead measures reasoning power — how well a person perceives relationships, thinks abstractly, and solves novel problems.
Application. Sort each listed test into one of these two families:
Test | What it measures |
|---|---|
TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) | Personality — a projective test: the person tells stories about ambiguous pictures, revealing inner needs and motives. |
16-PF | Personality — Cattell's self-report inventory mapping sixteen source traits of personality. |
Draw-a-Man test | Goodenough's drawing test, conventionally grouped with the personality/projective tests in this classification. |
Raven's test | Intelligence — Raven's Progressive Matrices, a non-verbal measure of abstract reasoning (fluid intelligence). |
Cross-check / Contrast. Three of the four belong to the personality family; only Raven's Progressive Matrices is a measure of reasoning ability rather than of personality. So Raven's test is the one that does not belong with the rest.