PSY100Y5 Chapter 9: ch 9 intelligence and psychological testing
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A psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behaviour. Used to measure individual differences among people in their abilities, aptittudes, interests and personality. Mental tests: intelligence tests: measure general mental ability. Assess intellectual potential more than previous learning: aptitude tests: assess specific types of mental abilities. For example: verbal reasoning, numericals, etc: 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 acoring 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 refers to the measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques).
