PSYC 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lexical Hypothesis, Multiple Choice, Physiognomy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 406
• Professor: David Vachon

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Module 1. 1: history: testing, all fields of human behaviour use some kind of measurement, any assessment of human performance, thinking, behaviours, examples, olympics, polygraph, exams in school, measurements come in many different forms. Iq tests: multiple choice tests, rorschach inkblot tests, projective & personality tests. The big five traits the five-factor model of personality. Pulled out every adjective in the dictionary and conducted a factory analysis and came up with 5 adjectives. Any tendency that we have, anything important, will be embedded into language. No matter where you were raised, it will be the same lexical hypothesis (same five adjectives) to describe human behaviours: however, first recorded form of testing occurs more than 4,000 years ago, emperor shun, 2200 b. c. Xiaq dynasty shun first emperor of china: had his officials examined every 3 years to determine fitness for office, no details, officials were at sometimes but then not at others. Test batteries: 2 or more tests in conjunction, combining tests.