PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, David Wechsler, Intelligence Quotient

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Kim Hellemans

Document Summary

Aptitude (measure your potential in specific areas) Achievement tests (specific skills, your current knowledge. Psychological tests are standardized measures of behaviour. Most psychological tests fall under two broad categories: mental ability tests and personality scales. Mental ability tests include intelligence tests, which are designed to measure general mental ability, and aptitude tests, which measure more specific mental abilities. Personality measures are usually called scales, rather than tests, as there are no right or wrong answers. Personality tests measure a variety of motives, interests, values, and attitudes. Example: being tested on course content, instead of content not taught in class) Standardization refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. Test norms provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. These allow a psychologist to determine how a person scores relative to other people.