PSYC 3250 Chapter Notes -Neuropsychological Test, Psychopathology, American Psychological Association
10 Oct 2012
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Psychological test represent systematic applications of a few relatively simple principles in an attempt to measure personal attributes thought to be important in describing or understanding individual behaviour. Tests are used to make important decisions about individuals. Psychological tests are used to measure a wide variety of attributes - intelligence, motivation, vocational preferences, anxiety. One feature that all psychological tests share in common is their limited precision. They rarely provide exact de nitive measures of variables that are believed to have important effects on human behaviour. Psychological tests do not provide a basis for making completely accurate decisions about individuals. It is also a highly specialized and somewhat technical enterprise. Psychological tests are manifest only in the behaviour of individuals and behaviour rarely re ects any one psychological attribute but rather a variety of physical, psychological and social forces. The subject s behaviour is used to measure some speci c attribute or to predict some speci c outcome.
