psy290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Intelligence Quotient, Content Validity
18 Jan 2018
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Describe and provide examples, where available, of the principal broad categories and subcategories of psychological tests. Mental ability tests intelligence tests: aptitude tests, achievement tests. Personality tests: personality tests or also known as personality scales. Explain the concepts of standardization and test norms. Standardization refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. Meaning all subjects get the same instructions, the same questions and same time limit so that scores can be compared meaningfully. Test norms provides information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. It tells you how you score relative to other people. Explain the meaning of test reliability and validity, and discuss how these qualities are estimated. Test reliability the measurement consistency of a test reliability can be estimated in several ways. One widely used approach is to check test retest reliability. Reliability estimates require the comparison of correlation coefficient.
