O uso de técnicas e instrumentos psicológicos: reflexões pertinentes

Abstract

This essay discusses the psychological tests as useful instruments in the professional performance of the psychologist, therefore they supply precise data and, that many times, are not observed by means of other techniques of collection of data. They are diagnosis instruments, however the instruments do not have par excellence to be considered. The use of tests is important, but it does not substitute the observation and the interview. In another aspect, the valid interpretation of the results of a test depends on the complementation in the data collected through the interview and on the observation.