PSY 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chegg, Unobservable, Psy
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Foundations of psychological testing--miller and lovler--6th edition--inclusive access. A systematic procedure for observing behavior and escribing it with the aid of numerical scales or fixed categories. A measurement tool or technique that requires a person to perform one or more behaviors in order to make inferences about human attributes. Measurement allows us to use behavior to make inferences about psychological characteristics of people and express them in quantitative terms. A systematic procedure for observing behavior and describing it with the aid of. When we need to make decisions about people. This is done across a wide variety of contexts: An attribute, trait, or characteristic that is abstracted from observable behaviors. Observable things like lever presses or number of math questions answered correctly. We are often interested in variables in and of themselves. But we don"t need tests to measure variables. "how many times the pigeon pressed the lever" Both constructs and variables are attributes in which people vary.
