PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Robert Sternberg, Grey Matter, Haier

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

List and describe the principal categories of psychological tests: mental ability test. Intended to assess intellectual potential rather than previous learning or accumulated knowledge. Aptitude tests: assess specific types of mental abilities. Designed to measure potential more than knowledge but break mental ability into separate components. Achievement tests: gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects. Have a specific focus but are supposed to measure previous learning instead of potential: personality test: measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values and attitudes. Explain the three types of validity and how they are assessed: validity: refers to the ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure. Content validity: refers to the degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it"s supposed to cover. Criterion-related validity: is estimated by correlating subjects" scores on a test with their scores on an independent criterion (another measure) of the trait assessed by the test.