PSYC 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychological Testing, Intellectual Disability, Projective Test

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: Grace Ewles

Document Summary

Psychological testing developed in response to practical demands (ex. Individuals were screened out to see who was suitable or not. The first successful systematic tests of intelligence were developed by simon and binet: designed to assess and classify mentally retarded students. A procedure for obtaining meaningful samples of behaviour and attaching numerical scores to those samples that reflect characteristics of the individual being assessed. Represents systematic attempts to measure personal attributes, which are deemed important contributors to individual behaviour. Measure behaviour in attempt to study a specific psychological construct: ex. intelligence. Behaviour performance on a math test. A psychological test is a measurement instrument that has three defining characteristics. Is obtained under standardized conditions: has established rules for scoring or obtaining numeric info from the sample of behaviour. Process designed to minimize error in both test development and administration (they promote fairness and accuracy: so there is not variability between who is administering the test, where it is taken, etc.