This PPt contains aptitude and its test

1. APTITUDE
Prepared By
Mrs.AKILA.A, M.Sc (N), M.Sc(psy)
Associate Professor

2. INTRODUCTION
Some people can paint beautifully, but
cannot sing, Some are good at oral
communication, but find it difficult to
handle any mechanical device. This basic
differences bring satisfaction to the
individual, The reason for the differences
is mainly due to aptitude.

3. APTITUDE
• Aptitude means quickness in learning and
understanding. It may be an natural talent or
an acquired ability.
• It is the special aptness or fitness for a
special ability, such as mechanical, musical,
artistic, Scholastic or Religious.

4. DEFINITION
• Aptitude refers to those qualities characterizing a
person’s way of behaviour, which serve to indicate
how well he can learn to meet and solve a certain
specified kinds of problem.(Bingham-1937).
• It is a combination of characteristics indicative of
an individual’s capacity to acquire (with training)
some specific knowledge, skill, or set of organised
responses, such as the ability to speak a
language, to become a musician, to do
mechanical work.(Freeman-1971).

5. CHARECTERISTICS / CONCEPTS OF
APTITUDE
• Certain aspects of many aptitudes maybe
inborn.
• It depends upon heredity and
environment.
• Attitude differs from ability and
achievement, Ability is present oriented
whereas achievement is past oriented. But
aptitude is future oriented.
• Aptitude measures the specific abilities.

6. • Aptitude is an innate component of a
competency to do a certain kind of work at
certain level.
• Aptitudes are learnt potentialities.
• Aptitude is derived from general mental ability
and it predicts one’s possible success or failure in
a vocation.
• Aptitude helps an individual to learn faster and
achieve success.
• Aptitude is very helpful in choosing any kind of
activity, in which we wish to be successful or
enjoy.

7. • Aptitude is different from skill and proficiency.
Skill is the ability to perform a given act with
ease and precision, is skill is a psychomotor
activity, but proficiency has the same
meaning, except that it is more
comprehensive.

8. TYPES OF ATTITUDE
1.SENSORY APTITUE
2.MECHANICAL APTITUDE
3.ARTISTIC APTITUDE
4.PROFESSIONAL APTITUDE
5.SCHOLSATIC APTITUDE

9. SENSORY APTITUDE
• All those aptitudes which are related to the
sensory capacities and abilities of a
children.
• Aptitude differs with each sense organ,
some may have aptitude in sense of sight,
others may have either sense of smell or
sense of taste.
• It is purely based on sensory capacity.
• Sensory aptitudes are related to the
sensory abilities of the children.

10. MECHANICAL APTITUDE
• Some persons have a specific bent of mind for
the tasks related to the use of mechanical
abilities.
• This aptitude involves the ability to
understand and solve problems involving
mechanical relationships and arrangements
such as those, which occur in the adjustment,
repair and assembly of machinery.

11. ARTISTIC APTITUDE
• It is related to the expression of artistic
abilities and capacities are included in this
category.
• Here, the activities are related to affective
domain.
• The aesthetic sense is exhibited in
activities.

12. ARTISTIC APTITUDES
• Musical Aptitude
• Aptitude for dance
• Aptitude for graphic art
• Aptitude for Photography
• Aptitude for acting
• Aptitude for designing
• Debating Aptitude
• Writing Aptitude
• Poetic Aptitude

13. PROFESSIONAL APTITUDE
• The aptitudes are related to the activities
of various professions and occupations
are included in this category.
• It helps to predict the future success of an
individual in the field.
Examples:
1.Clerical aptitude
2. Legal aptitude
3.Teaching aptitude
4.Banking aptitude

14. SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE
• The aptitudes of the scholastic and academic
nature included in this category.
• These aptitudes demonstrate and predict the
future success of an individual in the learning
of a particular subject.
Example:
1.Scientific Aptitude
2.Engineering aptitude
3.Medical aptitude
4.Linguistic aptitude

15. APTITUDE TEST
• Aptitude measurements are used to
predict success or failure in an activity.
Aptitude tests measures the degree or
level of one’s special flair.
• They are chiefly used to estimate the
extent to which an individual would profit
from a specific course or training or to
predict the quality of his or her
achievement in a given situation.

16. • Aptitude Test:
1. Verbal reasoning
2.Numerial reasoning
3.Abstract / inductive/ diagrammatic reasoning
4.Logical reasoning
5. Speciality/ technical aptitude Test
- Mechanical Aptitude tests
- Musical Aptitude tests
- Art Judgement Aptitude tests
- Professional Aptitude tests
- Legal, Engineering, research Aptitude tests
- Scholastic Aptitude tests

17. Verbal Reasoning
• This test measures the ability to comprehend
complex written materials and deduct
relevant information and conclusions.
• Verbal reasoning tests also include,
- Spelling
- Grammar
- Logic
- Vocabulary Tests

18. Numerical Reasoning
Numerical reasoning test includes a
wide range of aptitude tests varying from
‘ basic arithmetic tests’ through ‘estimation
tests’ that measure speed in making
educated mathematical estimations to
‘ advanced numerical reasoning tests’ that
measure ability to interpret complex data
presented in various graphic forms and to
deduce information and conclusions.

19. Abstract / Inductive /
Diagrammatic Reasoning
• These aptitude tests measure logical
reasoning and Perceptual reasoning skills.
• These aptitude tests do not rely on acquired
linguistic or numeric abilities.
• But on innate abilities and are thus called
non verbal reasoning tests.

20. Logical Reasoning
• The logical reasoning test is an aptitude test
meant to assess the ability to understand and
make comprehensive conclusions from the
provided data.
• It is one of the most common aptitude tests
and although it may seem as one of the most
difficult, with practice it becomes much
simpler than it seems to be first.

21. Mechanical Aptitude Test
• Sensory, motor capacities and perception of
spatial relations, the capacity to acquire
information about mechanical matters and the
capacity to comprehend mechanical relationship.
• Tests include:
-Minnesota Mechanical assembly test
- Minnesota Spatial relations Test
- Revised Minnesota paper form board.
- Stenquest Mechanical Aptitude test
- Bennet test of mechanical aptitude test

22. Clerical Aptitude test
Clerical Aptitudes test consists of
• Perceptual ability of words and numbers with speed
and accuracy.
• Intellectual ability to grasp the meaning of words and
symbols
• Motor abilities to use various types of machines and
tools.
Examples:
1. Detroit clerical Aptitude test
2. Minnesota Vocational Test for clerical workers
3. The clerical ability test prepared by university of
Mysore.
4. Clerical Aptitude test Battery

23. Musical Aptitude Tests
• The musical Talents
• The components includes,
- Discrimination of pitch
- Discrimination of intensity of loudness
- Discrimination of time interval
- Judgement of rhythm
Test items in this battery are presented on
phonograph records.

24. Aptitude for Graphic Art
• The Meier art judgement test
• Horne Art Aptitude Inventory
• The Meier Art judgement test, there are 100
pairs of representational pictures in black and
white.

25. Tests for Scholastic and
Professional Aptitudes
• Stand ford scientific Aptitude test by D. L.
Zyne
• Science Aptitude test( after higher
secondary stage)
• Moss Scholastic Aptitude test for medical
students
• Tale legal Aptitude test
• Shah’s Teaching test

26. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN
INTELLIGENCE AND APTITUDE
• Individual differences stand for the variation
or deviations among individuals in regard to a
single characteristic or a number of
characteristics.
• Classifications:
1.Physical differences
2.Psychological differences

27. SUB TYPES
• Differences related to
(i) Physical growth and development
(ii) Mental growth and development
(iii)Motor skills and abilities
(iv)Emotional make up
(v) Socialisation
(vi)Morality
(vii)Aesthetic sense

28. (viii) Interest
(ix) attitudes, beliefs, values
(x) self concept
(xi) Psychomotor skills
(xii)Study habits
(xiii) Achievements
CAUSES FOR THE DIFFERENCES:
1.Heredity
2.Environment

29. • Individual differences in performance on
cognitive tasks are due to differences in
working memory capacity, information
Processing speed, the breadth of procedural
knowledge.
• Factors like age, sex, environment effect the
level of aptitude.

30. NURSING IMPLICATIONS OF
APTITUDE
• The knowledge of the aptitude will also
give optimism in nurses future success.
• Knowledge of the aptitude will be helpful to
the nurse to develop proper attitude for the
profession.
• If nurse has an aptitude for her profession
she is bound to be a successful nurse,
whatever the impediments she might meet
in her path.

31. CONCLUSION
• Aptitude refers to those qualities or
characteristics a person’s way of
behaviour which serve to indicate how well
he can learn to meet and solve certain
kind of problems.