PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Divergent Thinking, Brain Size, Inductive Reasoning
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Psychological test: a standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behaviour. Psychological tests measure the individual differences that exist among people"s abilities, aptitudes, interests and aspects of personality. Test scores should be interpreted cautiously because its only a sample of you- not a characteristic. Intelligence tests: measure general mental ability- measure intellectual potential. Aptitude tests: asses specific types of mental abilities. Achievement tests: gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects. Measure various aspects of personality, including motive, interests, values and attitude. Standardization: the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. Test norms: provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. A percentile score: indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score on obtained. Standardization group- sample of people that the norms are based on. Correlation coefficient: a numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables.
