PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Flynn Effect, Sandra Scarr, Heritability
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Chapter 9: intelligence & psychological testing: key concepts in psychological testing, psychological test standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behavior, used to measure individual differences, types of tests, mental ability tests. Intelligence tests measure general mental ability: aptitude tests measure specific types of mental abilities, verbal reasoning, perceptual speed, accuracy, etc, achievement test measure a person"s mastery and knowledge of. Various subjects: personality tests measure various aspects of personality, including motives, reading english, history, etc. Interests, values, and attitudes: standardizing & norms, standardization uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test, test norms provide information about where a score on a psychological test. Ranks in relation to other scores on that test: percentile score indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the. Score one has obtained: reliability measurement of consistency of a test (or to other kinds of measurement.
