PSYC 1002 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Flynn Effect, Heritability, Intelligence Quotient
23 Mar 2016
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Psychological test: a standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behaviour. They"re used to measure the individual diferences that exist among people in abiliies, apitudes, interests, and aspects of personality. They"re intended to assess intellectual potenial rather than previous learning or accumulated knowledge. Apitude tests: assess speciic types of mental abiliies. They"re designed to measure potenial more than knowledge, but they break mental ability into separate components. Diferenial apitude tests: assess verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, perceptual speed and accuracy, mechanical reasoning, space relaionships, spelling, and language usage. Achievement tests: gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects. Personality tests: measure various aspects of personality, including moives, interests, values, and aitudes. Standardizaion: refers to the uniform procedures used in the administraion and scoring of a test. Test norms: provide informaion about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relaion to other scores.
