Psychology 2080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thematic Apperception Test, Visual Acuity, Health Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

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Lecture 1 part 1 introduction and history. Chapter 1 key terms: you should understand the following terms as they apply to psychological testing, test, measurement, scale, overt behavior, covert behavior, ability, achievement, aptitude, personality, structured test, projective test. Attitudes, thoughts and feelings towards something: tests might attempt to predict future behaviour, ex. Gre used to predict how people will perform in grad school. Example of a test: the assessment of sadistic personality, this is a test used to measure sadism in the general population, dark triad (narcissism, psychopathy, machiavellianism) dark tetrad (addition of sadism) Three types of ability tests: achievement, the result of previous learning, focuses on past learning, ex. Course final exams, spelling tests: aptitude, potential to learn or acquire a particular skill overtime, focus on the future, ex. job candidate"s potential abilities to perform tasks and react to situations.