PSYC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychoeducation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 106
• Professor: Martin Davidson

Document Summary

Psychoeducational assessment: intelligence and achievement testing, areas of strength and weakness. Personality assessment: determining personality characteristics, habitual ways of functioning in the world. Physical sciences: classical concept of measurement: variable must possess a quantitative structure independent of measurement, variations in magnitude; different magnitudes can be related by ratios that are real numbers. Measurement is a criterion of scientific activity. Psychology: we want to be science too: we can be rigorous, precise, standardized, and objective. The need for quantification in order to be considered a science. Lots of pressure on early psychologists to develop ways to measure psychological phenomena. Early psychologists trained in natural sciences: superimposed natural sciences approach onto psychology. The view/belief that psychological phenomena can be measured. Psychological phenomena are not quantitative and cannot be measured nonsensical to measure. Progressively ignored into the 20th century: were producing numerical data, therefore these attributes are quantitative.