Abstract

NORONHA, Ana Paula Porto; BERALDO, Flávia Nunes de Moraes  and  OLIVEIRA, Katya Luciane de. Well-know psychological instruments used by psychology students and professional. Psicol. esc. educ. [online]. 2003, vol.7, n.1, pp. 47-56. ISSN 1413-8557.

This study aimed to identify well-know psychology instruments used by psychology students and professionals and list used instruments in the sample. 82 senior students in a private university of São Paulo countryside participated in the study along with 52 professionals. The material used in this study comprised a setoff psychological assessment instruments and the task assigned to subjects was to check know, used and unknown tools. The task was performed during class hours, authorized by teachers and coordination. To collect data from majored professional, questionnaires were sent by mail because it is a self-applied questionnaire. Results indicated a difference between the 2 groups concerning well-know and used instruments by students and professionals. Studies show that some well-known instruments are also the most frequent in psychology courses. New researches on this topic should be done to gather further data.

Keywords : Psychological assessment; Psychological instruments; Psychological tests.