PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Block Design, Twin Study, Psychological Testing

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Carver Charles

Document Summary

Fit is better if intrinsic interest matches what goes on in the job. Vocational interest tests assess concrete preferences, aversions- also on abilities. Individual responses are mapped against profiles of people satisfied in various jobs. Psychological assessment: (personality assessment, interest tests (practical, applied kind of assessment, ability and achievement tests (contrasted with each other, intelligence tests. Achievement tests should measure present level of performance. In principle, they should be distinct, but in practice they are not. Intelligence is sometimes defined as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge. Thus ability and performance are especially entangled in intelligence tests. Binet, trying to predict school success, used school-type items: binet had a focus on school type problems. Binet and terman also mixed various types of skills: terman expanded the terms. If we think we are comparing a capacity, we need to equate people"s opportunity to practice using it: origins of intelligence tests: initially, not about ability but a practical matter.