PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rorschach Test, Chartered Management Institute, Personality Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Invented only a little over 100 years ago. These tests are measures of mental abilities: measures intellectual potential rather then previous learning, different then aptitude tests or achievement tests. Sir francis galton - nature vs nuture & correlation: alfred binet - mental age vs chronological age & intelligence quotient (iq, lewis terman - standford-binet intelligence scale, david wechsler - weschler adult intelligence scale (wais) Standford-binet intelligence scale: scoring theme - child"s mental age divided by their chronological age, multiplied by 100, allowed comparison of children of different ages. 40-54- moderately imparied or delayed: test works for intellectual abiliteis for young children to adults. Wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais: currently on 5th edition, most popular iq test, child version = wechsler intelligence test for children (wisc, high correlation between school and iq test, average iq score is 100. Scored below 70 are the lower extreme while score above 130 indicated exceptional intelligence: measure diverse aspects of intelligence.