PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Intellectual Disability, Intelligence Quotient, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Psychological test- standardized measure of a sample of person"s behavior (used to measure individual differences) Assess intellectual potential rather than previous learning or accumulated knowledge. Aptitude tests- assess specific types of mental ability. Designed to measure potential more than knowledge, but they break mental ability into separate components. Achievement tests- gauge a person"s mastery + knowledge of various subjects. Personality tests- measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, attitudes. Standardization- uniform procedures used in administration + scoring of test. Test norms- information about where a score on psychological test ranks in relation to their scores on a test. Percentile score- percentage of ppl who scores at or below the score one has obtained. Standardization group- sample of ppl that the norms are based on. Reliability- measurement consistency of a test (or other kinds of measurement techniques) Psychological tests are not perfectly reliable (requires computation of correlation coefficient)