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DT

Author: G. Schuhfried
Determination Test

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Field of Application+

NEURO
TRAFFIC
SPORT
HR
Detailed Description+

Assesses reactive stress tolerance and ability to react under complex stimulus conditions.
The Determination Test is a complex multi-stimuli reaction test involving the presentation of both colored stimuli and acoustic signals to which the respondent reacts by pressing the appropriate buttons on the response panel and using the foot pedals. The stress element of the DT arises from the need to sustain continuous, rapid and varying responses to rapidly changing stimuli. Because test presentation is adaptive, any individual can be confronted with stimuli at a frequency sufficiently high to place him in a situation in which he is over-challenged and can no longer execute the necessary responses. The DT can therefore be used to investigate behavior under various levels of psychophysical stress. The test is used in recruitment for positions with safety-related requirements (safety assessments), in staff development, in clinical neuropsychology, in traffic psychology and in sports psychology.

Test forms+

S1: Adaptive standard form
S2: Adaptive long form
S3: Standard form with time limit (colors, sounds)
S4: Mixed standard form with time limit and time limit per item
S5: Standard form with time limit per item
S6: Standard form with time limit per item (colors)

Task+

Respondents react as quickly as they can to optical or acoustic stimuli by pressing the appropriate buttons on the response panel or using the foot pedals.

Dimensions+

Reactive behavior & visual functions

Languages+

Hungarian

Turkish

Dutch

English (USA)

Ukrainian

French

Chinese (Taiwan)

Italian

Portuguese

Swedish

Slovak

Spanish

Greek

German

Farsi

Polish

Romanian

Russian

Finnish

Chinese

Arabic

Serbian

Czech

Norwegian

Croatian

Hindi

Slovene

Portuguese (Brazil)

Duration+

approx. 6-15 minutes, depending on test form

Age+

Norms for ages 8+.

Test administration+

Controlled Mode


Scoring+

The following main variables are scored, depending on the test form:

  • S1 and S2 (adaptive mode):
    Measure of the respondent’s reactive stress tolerance and ability to react under stress conditions.
     
  • S3 (action mode):
    Measure of the ability to react (based on the speed and accuracy of the ability to react).
     
  • S4: Test form S4 (action and reaction mode):
    • Subtest 1 – Action mode: description and interpretation of the variables as for test form S3.
    • Subtest 2 – Reaction mode: description and interpretation of the variables as for test forms S5 and S6.
       
  • S5 and S6 (reaction mode):
    Measure of the ability to react and reactive stress tolerance.
Products specifications
LanguagesArabic, Chinese, Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English (USA), Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Test informationadaptive <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="In adaptive tests the item difficulty adapts during the test to the respondent's ability. In these tests the number of items presented may also vary in at least one subtest or test form."></i>, wide norm spectrum <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="In tests with a wide norm spectrum the norms cover a wide age range (wider than ages 16-84), or multiple norm samples (at least two) are available."></i>, language-free item material <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="A test that uses language-free item material is one that can be worked by a respondent with no linguistic knowledge, provided that the instructions have been understood (for example with support from the test administrator)."></i>, additional device required <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="A SCHUHFRIED peripheral device (e.g. a Response Panel) is needed for proper administration of the test."></i>, high level of test security <i class="fas fa-info-circle tooltips test-info" data-container="body" data-placement="top" data-toggle="tooltip" title="A test has a high level of test security if steps have been taken to prevent disclosure of the answers or answer scheme. Examples of such steps include prevention of unsupervised online testing, the provision of parallel test forms and the use of objective personality tests and adaptive tests."></i>
DimensionsReactive behavior & visual functions
Test typeSpecial Ability Tests