PSYC 3020 Study Guide - Personality Test
Document Summary
Critiquing psychological tests: the history of psychological testing, may have 1st been used in ancient china, serious research in psychological testing began in early 1900s. Wilhelm wundt (germany)- focused on universal principles, more focused on how people are alike (reaction time, etc) Later psychologists began to study individual differences: intelligence tests. 1905 binet and simon published 1st intelligence test (binet-simon scale) 1916 lewis terman revised to create stanford-binet intelligence scales use with wide age range. 1939 weschler-bellevue intelligence scale (wbis) gave list of strengths and weaknesses; now called wais-iv: personality tests. Wwi robert woodworth developed the pds to identify soldiers psychologically unfit for combat; later revised for civilian use (woodworth. 1930s rorschach inkblot test and thematic apperception test (tat: rorschach is a series of inkblots that the test taker is to interpret. The interpretation is to tell us something about their personality: controversy over whether or not the tests are actually useful, vocational tests.
