PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psychological Testing, Achievement Test, Intelligence Quotient

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A psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of a persons behaviour. They are used to measure individual difference that exist among people in abilities , aptitudes, interests and aspect of personality. Your response to a sample represent your behaviour. Sample is a key limitation of psychological tests. A particular sample may not be representative of persons characteristic behaviour. Personality tests: they measure aspects of personality including motives , interests and attitudes. Standardization refers to uniform procedures used in administration and scoring of tests. Test norms provide information about where score on a test table in relation to other scores on that test. Percentile score indicates percentage people who score below or at the score one has obtained. Reliability is measurement consistency of a test. Validity is ability of test to measure what it is designed to measure.

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