PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Intelligence Quotient, Fragile X Syndrome, Content Validity
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Psychological test: is a standardized measure of a person"s behaviour. A sample of your behaviour use caution, as this sample may not be representative of you and your abilities as a whole. -- look for intellectual potential, not for previous/past learning. Aptitude tests: assess specific types of mental ability. -- like an intelligence test, but will be specific to a component of intelligence (eg. reasoning) Achievement tests: gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects (eg. reading, english) Personality tests: measure various aspects of personality motives, interests, values, and attitudes. Assess traits of a personality (more than 500) Are scales because they do not have a right or wrong answer they are measures of traits in a personality. Standardization: refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. Scores are compared to one another to bring meaning to the scores.
