PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Imperial Examination, Intelligence Quotient, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

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Psychological testing: why is it important to be cautious when interpreting test results, a psychological test is a sample of an individuals behavior: The individual differences in people"s abilities, aptitude, interest, and aspect of personality. Therefor, it should be taken with a grain of sand b/c this sample is subject to a variety of uncontrolled variables: what are the two main categories of psychological testing, mental ability test measures general mental ability. Aptitude test generally potential, assessing specific types of mental abilities. The norms from which the percentile is given is determine by the sample of: what is reliability and how can it be measured? people or standardized group, reliability the measurement consistency of a test (measuring device). Requires a computation of correlation coefficient (numerical index of cor. ) Content the degree to which the content of the test represents the domain it is intended to cover (exam, course tests)