PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Joseph Renzulli, Flynn Effect, Convergent Thinking

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

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A psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of a person s behaviour. They are used to measure the individual differences that exist among people in abilities, interests, and aspects of personality. Responses to a psychological test represent a sample of your behaviour. Psychological tests are used extensively in research, but most of them were developed to serve a practical purpose outside of the laboratory. Most tests can be placed in one of two broad categories: mental ability tests and personality tests. They re intended to assess intellectual potential rather than previous learning or accumulated knowledge. Aptitude tests are also designed to measure potential more than knowledge, but they break mental ability into separate components. Thus, aptitude tests assess specific types of mental abilities. For example, the differential aptitude tests assess verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, perceptual speed, space relationships, spelling and language usage. reasoning, and accuracy, mechanical.