Research Paper on:
Psychological Testing and its Counseling Role

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define intelligence has been going on for decades (Shobris, 1996). In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the work of Sir Francis Galton began the frenzy of research into  this perplexing subject (1996). It continued with Alfred Binet, at the start of the twentieth century, and while tremendous strides have been made in this area, a universally recognizable understanding  of intelligence has never been accomplished (1996). The reason is because of the success of intelligence testing, intelligence has been defined as what the tests can measure (1996). Similarly,  in testing personality, it is sometimes difficult to label and compartmentalize people by their personality types. What is personality anyway? The study of personality addresses questions of shared human nature  as well as individual differences to determine unique patterns presented by individuals ("The Personality," 2002). Obviously, personality is ambiguous and not easy to measure. Thus, while personality testing may be  useful in clinical situations, they are often abused by potential employers and school officials who want to weed out and place individuals based on such categorization. Also, some people use  these as a pastime, or something to do on the Internet as there are many tests posted and psychologists even conduct experiments in this fashion. Ethical questions are raised by  such experimentation as well as the mere availability of such things to the lay person. Buchanan & Smith (1999) explain that at this juncture in time, the majority of Internet-mediated  studies seem to be questionnaire-based, inclusive of personality tests and surveys of various kinds. The development of Internet -based personality testing is actually an extension of the rise of psychometric  tests which are administered with the use of stand-alone computers (1999). Also, almost any modern text in respect to psychological assessment will include a section on computerized testing and