PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Content Validity, Criterion Validity

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Focuses on the process of i. q rather than on the amount. Consists of the ability to perceive and express emotion, to assimilate emotion in though, to understand and reason with emotion and to regulate emotion. Standardization- a standardized or uniform procedure whereby the original test questions are administered to a large group in order to: A. ) produce questions that can discriminate among people. B. ) to provide a set of standards or norms by which to judge what individual scores mean. Validity- refers to whether the test is measuring what it"s designed to measure. Criterion validity- if scores on a test are correlated with another independent measure (criterion) then the test has criterion validity.