PSYC 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Xia Dynasty, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Lexical Hypothesis
31 Oct 2017
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Testing: all fields of human behavior use some kind of measurement, the olympics performance test, lie detector test, personality tests, projected tests, different formats. How did testing get started: observation of individual differences is prehumen, know there are differences because language, adjectives and lexical hypothesis, 5 factor model: ocean. First test: emperor shun: xia dynasty, officials examined every 3 years to determine fitness for office, modified for 2000 years. 1900s: binet-simon intelligence test, seguin form board test for mentally disabled, kraepelin test for emotionally impaired, wwi army alpha & beta (group tests, standford-binet. 1920s: standard achievement tests (sats, projective tests (ink blot, personality inventories, factor analysis. 1940s: birth of clinical psychology, clinical psychologist only allowed to test, not give therapy, psychiatric measures (mmpi, cpi, abnormal personality (16pf, vocation interest measures, aptitude tests (gres) 1960s: item response theory: neuropsychology testing, physiology testing.
