PSY 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hermann Rorschach, Nonverbal Communication, David Wechsler
8 Mar 2016
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Helps us understand present tests and practices that may otherwise seem arbitrary. Learn from past mistakes or ind tests that have been misused. Mistakes often are seen at a distance. Testing is pervasive: can have signiicant impact on an individuals life. Psychophysical properties - ability to detect or discriminate. Inluenced by darwins teaching, created irst psychophysical measurement lab to understand central nervous systems processing, reaction times, etc. Main method of gathering data was through introspection. Psychophysical functions more or less related to educational pursuits. No correlation between psychophysical characteristics at entry and gpa at graduation. Applied t and a practices for pragmatic intervention based reasons. Irst in us history to connecting assessment to educational. Renewed interest in trying to deine and understand intelligence and personality. Wanted to use t & a to do this. Combining iq and personality and how they inluence each other. Opportunity, ses, personal characteristics afect test scores.
