PSYC37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Test Data, Brass Instrument, Robert Yerkes
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Test: a measurement device that quantifies behavior. Psychological test: a device for measuring characteristics of human beings that pertain to overt and covert behavior. Item: a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and that can be scored or evaluated. Scale: tools that relate raw scores on test items to some defined theoretical or empirical distribution: note: the word scale has some different uses in the area of testing. Individual test: a test that can only be given to one person at a time. Group test: a test that a single test administrator can give to more than one person at a time: e. g. , wonderlick test. Ability tests: achievement: captures previous learning, aptitude: focus on potential for learning a specific skill. Two main types of personality tests: structured (or objective): stimuli are unambiguous, projective tests: stimuli are ambiguous. Origins in china, over 4,000 years ago: examination of civil servant"s fitness for office.
