PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Job Performance, Phenylketonuria, Robert Sternberg
6 Dec 2016
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Psychological test: standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behaviour. Measurement instruments that measure the individual differences between people. Represent a sample of behaviour (may not be representative of characteristic behaviour) Aptitude tests: assess specific types of mental abilities. Achievement tests: gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects. Personality tests: measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. Standardization: refers to the 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 the test (help people understand meaning of test score) Percentile score: indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. Reliability: refers to the measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques) o o o. Test-retest reliability: estimated by comparing subjects" test scores on two administrations of a test.
