PSYC 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Fear, Standardized Test, The Technique

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3090
• Professor: Krista Trobst

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Scrutiny of the protocol may suggest an irregularity of some sort: objective personality tests share many advantages w/ objective tests of ability, the items can be answered quickly. If the items on an objective test are well-written, then they require little explanation. Scoring was dispassionate and objective: unlike objective ability tests, objective personality tests contain no one correct answer. Objective personality tests are objective in the sense that they employ a short-answer format, one that provides little room for discretion in terms of scoring. The rorschach: hermann rorschach developed a form interpretation test" using inkblots as the forms to be interpreted. To fill the need for a test manual. His system is the single system most used and most taught today: prior to the development of exner"s system, evaluations of the rorschach"s psychometric soundness tended to be mixed at best. ex.