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General thoughts on brain training:
Lumosity is a commercial tool that aims to improve brain functioning. In general, I am sceptical of the potential for "brain training programs" to improve cognitive functioning in a generalised way (e.g., see this Nature discussion). Practice is powerful, but tends to be domain specific. So if you want to become skilled ...
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Many single item measures of mood can be found in the literature. Those two are based on the idea that affect is bidimensional and that one's current state can be reported using a grid:
Russell, J.A., Weiss, A., & Mendelsohn, G.A. (1989). Affect Grid: A Single-Item Scale of Pleasure and Arousal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57 (3), ...
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PEBL is a free open source programming language to help construct psychological experiments. A wiki and developer community provide some documentation and support.
PEBL has a Psychological Test Battery of many common or simple psychological tests so you may be able to use it out of the box without constructing your own test. PEBL includes free versions of ...
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The Hare Psychopathology Checklist is considered the current gold standard for measuring potential psychopathy. If you're interested in psychopathology, the book Without Conscience by Robert Hare, Ph.D., is a fascinating read. He has a second book called Snakes In Suits, which I have not yet read, so I cannot recommend or not recommend it. Dr. Hare has a ...
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FingerFriendlySoft has created an app for all iOS devices (that is, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad) that is called N-back Suite. This is, as the name suggests, an app which lets you take the n-back test.
Included are both the single and the dual n-back test and you can chose different amounts of n (from 1 to 10), five different speeds, and different type of ...
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This is an experiment testing the Stroop effect, named after John Ridley Stroop who studied it in 1935, and often called a Stroop experiment. It is a classic and well understood experiment and has now become a neuropsychological test for use in clinical settings, usually called the Stroop test.
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I was alerted to your post here and would like to respond to a non-technical side of the question. I'm an Intellectual Property Assistant for CPP, Inc., publisher of the MBTI® assessment tool. I help protect the instrument's trademarks and copyrights, and ensure ethical use of the instrument.
The names MBTI®, Myers-Briggs®, and Myers-Briggs Type ...
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The IPIP may provide what you are looking for.
This IPIP Website is intended to provide rapid access to measures of
individual differences, all in the public domain, to be developed
conjointly among scientists worldwide.
In general, the scientific literature tends to focus more on a dimensional approach based on the Big 5 model of personality than ...
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The task sounds like a match-to-sample task which is indeed used in working memory studies. In this test participants are presented with a sample stimulus and have to judge whether or not following stimuli resemble this particular stimulus. Depending on the time span between the presentation of the sample stimulus and the following stimuli this task is ...
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I would say there are no such tests/toolboxes, that would allow you to properly conduct any cognitive testing on iPhone, iPad or even using web-based applications. There are some games that attempt to do it, like the one suggested by @Speldosa, but nothing really serious.
At the moment there seem to be no way to control and record different variables (like ...
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The Hare Psychopathy Checklist is often used to assess psychopathy in clinical settings. NPR has a good, but unscientific read that ponders the validity of the Hare test and its reliability in predicting criminal recidivism.
The online Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale is a test of psychopathy for research situations.
References
Hare, R. D. ...
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General literature on training and educational program evaluation
In general, you would want to read up about program evaluation in general, and educational program evaluation, and training evaluation in particular.
With regards to the educational context I found this article online.
With regards to training evaluation, you could check out Kraiger et al ...
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There are a wide variety of memory tests available for different purposes (sometimes clinical, sometimes for research). Also as Ben Brocka mentions, they can be more targeted as well.
One test I can think of at the top of my head that is available for free online is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) that you might be interested in. It serves as a ...
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@Jeromy Anglim: I'm actually creating a serial response time task (a widely used learning task) for the iPad now. We hope to get it up in the appstore soon but I'm using it along with a few others for my master's thesis. We're almost done putting the finishing touches on the task and hope to post a youtube video soon of the task. We're not intending to make ...
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Paper IQ Test:
EDIT: There is a list of printable tests including an IQ test at http://personality-testing.info/printable_tests.htm , it looks to be of standard internet IQ test quality...
Here is a printable version of an IQ test developed on this website.
It is no where near the quality of a professional IQ test but may be
interesting and its ...
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PEBL has two main problems,
It isn't normed, which means the external validity is going to be very weak.
Standard computer hardware introduces random lag in timing measurements. Perceptual tests that measure raw neural speed and rely on millisecond measurements are meaningless.
That being said, I love the idea of PEBL and I have been thinking of some ...
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In the standard version of the task there are "good" decks (overall positive payoff) and "bad" decks (overall negative payoff), so the optimal strategy is to figure out which ones are the good decks and stick with those. In principle, which deck is which should be randomized, but I don't know if your version implements that. There are also many variations ...
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There are at least two problems with measuring high intelligence:
(1) Any IQ test has a maximum difficulty. That means that all subjects above a certain intelligence answer all questions correctly and get the same maximum score. This is called the "ceiling effect".
Now you might say, that we simply need to construct a test that is difficult enough for even ...
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Harvill mentions an estimate by Lord (1959). Lord (1959) presents some data for the standard error of measurement for some moderately difficult cognitive measures. While there are many caveats (e.g., the estimate of the standard error is most accurate for scores around 50% and the estimates are based on tests that are neither particularly easy or ...
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The APA has a general tutorial on finding psychological tests with a range of tips.
Finding measures
PsychTESTS is a new product by the APA that aims to make it easier to find psychological tests. It is a subscription service. Thus, you would probably have to pay for it yourself or get it through a university or other body that subscribes to it
Read the ...
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Yes -- I would look into the literature of attitude change. I think this research would be relevant to your hypotheses. Here's the Wikipedia article for attitude change, and here's a representative paper from that literature that might be useful. At any rate, I don't think the phrase "norm adoption" is the right wording for what you're studying in English. ...
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From an article entitled Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? in the New York Times Magazine (May 11, 2012):
Currently, there is no standard test for psychopathy in children...
The article also lists some assessments used by some practitioners for predicting adult psychopathy:
Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits
Child Psychopathy Scale
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To me the most natural solution is to just use item response theory (IRT). IRT has been around for a few decades, so it is well established, implemented in a variety of software packages and provides a sensible, extensible framework for this type of problem.
Essentially, one assumes an underlying latent construct of interest, values of which should drive ...
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I would say no, there's no reason not to, and in fact it might be better, based on the following rather speculative reasoning.
In general, despite the general benefits of testing for learning, multiple choice testing can also lead to subsequent memory for incorrect responses, i.e. it can cause students to learn false responses.
Marsh, Roediger, Bjork, ...
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What you are asking for does not really exist, no serious IQ test would ever give a score of 160.
IQ scores get swamped with noise more than ~30 points from the mean.
For example, an IQ of 160 means you are are more intelligent than 99.996% percent of people while an IQ of 150 means you are more intelligent than 99.957% of people. No test could claim to ...
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Raven (2000) provides norms for raven matrices for different age groups.
Here is how you interpret it.
Burke (1985) provide different groups norms.
You can use different scales like IQ (which is very old term used in Piaget DeVries, 1974 has more about it). Also there are other measures: percentiles,DQI, z scores etc... you have formulas to recalculate, ...
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Okay. I think I finally get what you are saying. You have constructed a form of partially ipsative or forced choice scale.
In my words, I would say that you have 100 items in total. The 100 items are grouped into sets of 4 items, and you have 25 sets. Each item is rated on a 0 to 6 scale, and within each set participants need to give different responses ...
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I assume you are talking about a difference in neural activity?
The difference in processing of targets and distracters does not come from their relative frequency, but from their task-relevance: you are paying attention to the targets, thus increasing gain. In auditory MMN, this attention component becomes evident slightly later than the prediction ...
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As stated above, everything related to MBTI is trademarked, but the theory behind it, based on Jung's personality types, have no such limitations as far as I know.
There are a few differences between the two (having to do with the functions I believe), but for a "quick and dirty" version like the one it sounds like you need for your site, it should do fine.
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If you have spent hours and hours trying to find a scale, that may or may not exist, I think you need to move forward and think different. You have access to some of the worlds collected knowledge as a student, but can't find anything useful. Either the scale your looking for is not present or it is not enough recognized by the research community to bubble ...
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