Question: Do you do any type of test to see how and why a person is acting in a certain way?

Lowri Evans answered on 17 Mar 2016:

Hello Jess,

Yes! There are lots of different tests that psychologists use to see how and why a person is acting in a certain way. In an area of psychology called cognitive psychology, all behaviour is broken down into little parts, that we call “constructs” which literally “build” our behaviour. We can test certain constructs easily by asking people questions, but a really cool way is to track things like their eye movements or brain activity 🙂