PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Sexual Orientation, Electrodermal Activity, Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

The vast enterprise of modern testing evolved from psychologists pioneering efforts to measure general intelligence. A psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of a person s behaviour (measurement instruments). They are used to measure the individual differences that exist among people in abilities, aptitudes, interests, and aspects of personality. Sample: responses to a psychological test represent a sample of your behaviour (one of the key limitations of psychological test and show always be interpreted cautiously). Aptitude tests assess specific types of mental abilities. They are also designed to measure potential more than knowledge, but they break mental ability into separate components. Differential aptitude tests assess verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, perceptual speed and accuracy, mechanical reasoning, space relationships, spelling, and language usage. Achievement tests: gauge a person s mastery and knowledge of various subjects such as reading,