PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Factor Analysis, Heredity, Psychological Testing

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1020H
• Professor: Kateryna Keefer

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Psych chapter 9 intelligence and psychological testing. Intelligence tests measure general mental ability: assesses more intellectual potential rather than accumulated knowledge. Aptitude tests assess specific types of mental abilities: they measure accumulated knowledge rather than intellectual potential, ex/ the differential aptitude tests assess verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, perceptual speed and accuracy, mechanical reasoning. Achievement tests gauge a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:373)aster(cid:455) a(cid:374)d k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of (cid:448)arious su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (e(cid:454)/ readi(cid:374)g, 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. A percentile score indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. A correlation coefficient is a numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables: the closer the correlation comes to +1. 00, the more reliable it is.