PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thematic Apperception Test, Wonderlic Test, Brass Instrument
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The past and future of psychological testing and ethics of testing. Psychological test: measures characteristics of human beings that pertain to overt and covert behaviour. Item: specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and can be scored or evaluated. Individual test: a test that can be given to one person at a time. Group test: test that a single test administrator can give to more than one person at a time (e. g. Three types of: achievement: captures previous learning, aptitude: focus on potential for learning a specific skill, intelligence: general potential independent of previous learning. Personality tests: structured (objective): unambiguous interpretation and stimuli (e. g. Mmpi: projective: ambiguous interpretation and stimuli (e. g. Round 1: spend one day and night in a small isolated booth composing essays on assigned topics and writing a poem. Round 2: three separate sessions of three days and three nights.
