Intelligent people, please come in.

[spitforspat]

I shouldn't have come in here.

[papie]

I have no idea. Short term memory? I would fail that test.

[papie]

Feb 27, 2013 13:50:00 GMT -5 spitforspat said:

I shouldn't have come in here.

LOL, see my "full of myself" reaction is "That is such a BS intelligence test".  ;-)

[SKP82]

I don't know, either, and do not think I would have been good at it.

[Deleted]

If you're too stupid to figure it out you don't deserve me telling you what it is for.































I really don't know what it's for.

[thebamker]

I don't know what it was testing you for, but I've been surprised to see the answer to that question at times. It always seems the results do not indicate what you assume would be the reasoning for the test.

Like when the police have you touch your nose in a DUI test. I heard they are looking to see if you tilt your head back... not if you can actually touch your nose.

[Bonita]

I didnt see your previous post, but my guess is something about how detail oriented you are maybe - that you notice details/characteristics rather than "it was a 5 and that was a 5, they're the same"

ETA: what kind of job is it for?

[coribelle26]

I don't know this for a fact but it sounds like it's testing working memory.

[chalupabatman]

They're trying to figure out if you cry or throw things easily?

[Deleted]

My assessment yesterday was like that too.

It had a series of Numbers and I had to guess which was next in the pattern.

Then there was a series of pictures and had to guess which one was next.

Then impossible word problems

I felt so fucking dumb when I took it. I'm taking another one and so far its Strongly Agree, Agree, Somewhat. etc.

[peanut2202]

As I mentioned yesterday, I think you probably took the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test...The two main "fields" it measures are Verbal IQ and Performance IQ

Please understand that many of the questions do not have "right" or "wrong" answer....many of the test sections (including the ones you are mentioning) focus on your problem solving capabilities, your reasoning capabilities, attention, concentration, and your ability to think abstractly.

[luckyval]

Feb 27, 2013 13:55:24 GMT -5 thebamker said:

I don't know what it was testing you for, but I've been surprised to see the answer to that question at times. It always seems the results do not indicate what you assume would be the reasoning for the test.

Like when the police have you touch your nose in a DUI test. I heard they are looking to see if you tilt your head back... not if you can actually touch your nose.

So, is the idea that drunk people will tilt their heads back?

I also heard the point of asking you to recite the alphabet backwards is to get people to say, "c'mon, I couldn't do that sober"

[Deleted]

Feb 27, 2013 14:17:32 GMT -5 TR said:

Skipping - there were sections like that too! And those I feel more confident in. But this...hoo boy.

I hope you did good on yours! I did the best I could. I was the best at the pictures and patterns but it still sucked. Then they had one where It had two sets of numbers and you had to see if they were the same. I'm dyslexic when it comes to numbers I took the full 15 minutes to do that one and STILL didn't answer all of them.

[peanut2202]

Feb 27, 2013 14:19:25 GMT -5 skippingstones said:

Feb 27, 2013 14:17:32 GMT -5 TR said:

Skipping - there were sections like that too! And those I feel more confident in. But this...hoo boy.

I hope you did good on yours! I did the best I could. I was the best at the pictures and patterns but it still sucked. Then they had one where It had two sets of numbers and you had to see if they were the same. I'm dyslexic when it comes to numbers I took the full 15 minutes to do that one and STILL didn't answer all of them.

Most people are not able to answer them all in the allotted time. 

[gretchenindisguise]

Feb 27, 2013 14:16:39 GMT -5 peanut2202 said:

As I mentioned yesterday, I think you probably took the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test...The two main "fields" it measures are Verbal IQ and Performance IQ

Please understand that many of the questions do not have "right" or "wrong" answer....many of the test sections (including the ones you are mentioning) focus on your problem solving capabilities, your reasoning capabilities, attention, concentration, and your ability to think abstractly.

What she described is not from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

[Deleted]

Feb 27, 2013 14:25:30 GMT -5 peanut2202 said:

Feb 27, 2013 14:19:25 GMT -5 skippingstones said:

I hope you did good on yours! I did the best I could. I was the best at the pictures and patterns but it still sucked. Then they had one where It had two sets of numbers and you had to see if they were the same. I'm dyslexic when it comes to numbers I took the full 15 minutes to do that one and STILL didn't answer all of them.

Most people are not able to answer them all in the allotted time. 

This makes me feel better. I was beating myself up over that assessment. I hated it

[peanut2202]

Feb 27, 2013 14:27:35 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Feb 27, 2013 14:16:39 GMT -5 peanut2202 said:

As I mentioned yesterday, I think you probably took the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test...The two main "fields" it measures are Verbal IQ and Performance IQ

Please understand that many of the questions do not have "right" or "wrong" answer....many of the test sections (including the ones you are mentioning) focus on your problem solving capabilities, your reasoning capabilities, attention, concentration, and your ability to think abstractly.

What she described is not from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Any suggestions as to what test you think it was?  Some of what she was describing yesterday sounded like the WAIS to me.....
Where I work several different tests are given to prospect employees including the Myers-Briggs, but obviously the types of questions she is discussing aren't the ones on the personality tests.

[gretchenindisguise]

Feb 27, 2013 14:37:14 GMT -5 peanut2202 said:

Feb 27, 2013 14:27:35 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

What she described is not from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Any suggestions as to what test you think it was?  Some of what she was describing yesterday sounded like the WAIS to me.....
Where I work several different tests are given to prospect employees including the Myers-Briggs, but obviously the types of questions she is discussing aren't the ones on the personality tests.

I don't know my computer based tests as much because we always did in person/paper pencil tests. It sounds like working memory to me, but I know it's not from the Wechsler family (WAIS, WMS, D-KEFS).

[peanut2202]

Feb 27, 2013 14:41:42 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Feb 27, 2013 14:37:14 GMT -5 peanut2202 said:

Any suggestions as to what test you think it was?  Some of what she was describing yesterday sounded like the WAIS to me.....
Where I work several different tests are given to prospect employees including the Myers-Briggs, but obviously the types of questions she is discussing aren't the ones on the personality tests.

I don't know my computer based tests as much because we always did in person/paper pencil tests. It sounds like working memory to me, but I know it's not from the Wechsler family (WAIS, WMS, D-KEFS).

my bad....I'm not as good with the computer based either as all I have learned about are face-to-face testing and paper much like you just mentioned. 

[open24hours]

The first computer task seems like they were looking at visual sequential and working memory. You have to be able to recall a visual sequence (the sequential part) and then mentally scan (the working memory) that sequence to identify if your target matched a specific part of that sequence. The second task added a visual-spatial memory component by changing the target location.

I have no idea what battery they are from as I am not familiar with computer based intelligence tests. The 'traditional' IQ tests, Wechsler Scales, Stanford-Binet aren't administered by the computer. If you have ever had to recreate designs with blocks or identify the relationship between two words, that was likely part of one of those scales.

[mamasaurus]

Well, I THOUGHT I was intelligent until I came into this thread.

[open24hours]

Feb 27, 2013 23:24:29 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Feb 27, 2013 23:03:05 GMT -5 @gracie6414 said:

And/Or testing ability to follow instructions.

Random side note, the assessment I have to administer to test "Understanding Directions" is the worst. 
I feel sorry for my test subjects. 

If you're talking about the WJ-III, I would totally fail that subtest. I feel bad for some of my students when I give certain executive functioning tests. Some of them are really hard.

[gretchenindisguise]

Feb 27, 2013 23:24:29 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Feb 27, 2013 23:03:05 GMT -5 @gracie6414 said:

And/Or testing ability to follow instructions.

Random side note, the assessment I have to administer to test "Understanding Directions" is the worst. 
I feel sorry for my test subjects. 

The old WMS with the blue number board thing was my least favorite - omg, so horrific. 

[jaybird]

Like others have mentioned, they're working memory tasks. They're both N-back tests, the first is verbal working memory and the second is spatial working memory.