Psychological Testing & Assessment in the Digital World

Dr. Thomas Parsons believes that

• Traditional neuropsychology tests are flawed because they incorporate unnatural elements into their administration, such as pencils and paper
  

• Virtual environments can add real-world elements to traditional tests

• Test-re-test reliability is higher in traditional testing, but validity is superior in virtual reality

  assessments

• All of these

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In the last few years, virtual reality systems have

• Largely been discontinued.

• Become dramatically less expensive.

• Gained FDA approval as rivals to psychotropics, in treatments of most forms of mental illness

• All of these

Dr. Parsons has created a

• Virtual airline

• Virtual bathroom

• Virtual amphitheater

• Virtual grocery store

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Dr. Gazzaley’s ACE stands for

• Automated Choice Evaluation

• Attenuated Cognitive Enlightenment

• Adaptive Cognitive Evaluation

• Ancillary Cognitive Entropy

Australia-based Reyellen and NY-based Pymetrics use high tech assessments to evaluate job applicants’

• Truthfulness

• Capacity for creativity

• Cognitive, social, and personality traits

• Security and liability risks to the company

Patrick Bordnick from Tulane University Studies VR in relation to its use in assessing and treating

• Eating Disorders

• PTSD

• Substance Use Disorders
  

• ADHD

Technology-based assessments still must address issues of

• Validity

• Reliability

• Security

• All of these

Gazzaley’ dream is that technology-based assessments

• Will replace current, conventional tests
  

• Will lead to new types of assessments that have not even been imagined yet
  

• Will do away with current notions of reliability and validity
  

• All of these

This article discusses the use of virtual reality tools to reverse aging.

• True

• False

High-tech assessments may help level the playing field among applicants in the hiring process.

• True

• False