PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychological Testing, Personality Test, Psy
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A test is a measurement device or tech- unique used to quantify behavior or aid in the understanding and prediction of behavior. Psychological test or educational test is a set of items that are designed to measure characteristics of human beings that pertain to behavior. Overt behavior is an individual"s observable activity. Some psy- chological (cid:498)emit(cid:499) a particular overt behavior. Covert that is, it takes place within an individual and cannot be directly observed (for example, your feelings and thoughts are types of covert behavior) tests attempt to measure the extent to which someone might engage in or. Psychological and educational tests thus measure past or cur- rent behavior. Scales, which relate raw scores on test items to some defined theoretical or empirical distribution. Those that can be given to only one person at a time are known as individual tests.
