PSY3041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mental Age, Frequency Distribution, James Mckeen Cattell

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY3041
• Professor: jake hoskin

Document Summary

Have norms and standards (reference points that make the test results meaningful) Made up of items (specific stimuli or questions) Items are the specific questions or problems that make up a test. Psychological testing: evaluate individual differences or variations among individuals. A set of items that are designed to measure characteristics of human beings that pertain to behaviour. Overt behaviour: an i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)a(cid:271)le a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) (some psychological tests attempt to (cid:373)easu(cid:396)e the e(cid:454)te(cid:374)t to (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:373)ight e(cid:374)gage i(cid:374) o(cid:396) (cid:858)e(cid:373)it(cid:859) a pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396) o(cid:448)e(cid:396)t behaviour. Covert behaviour: takes place within an individual and cannot be directly observed (your feelings and thoughts are types of covert behaviour) Measure individual differences in ability and personality and assume that the differences shown on the test reflect actual differences among individuals. E. g. , individuals who score high on an iq test are assumed to have a higher degree of intelligence than those who obtain low scores.