ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a survey of a variety of instruments that share a focus on underlying cognitive structures or states. This includes, first, a set of instruments for assessing attitudes, values, and beliefs. These represent more or less stable cognitions and affective states that orient the individual to objects or events. Second, there are instruments designed for accessing specific cognitions. There is considerable overlap between this and the previous category, but the cognitive measures are somewhat unique in that they have emerged directly from cognitive-behavioral interventions. The third group of instruments include vocational interest inventories specifically designed for assessing attitudes and values relating to vocational choices.
