PSY 3307 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Walkability, Sat, Xm Satellite Radio
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Used for making important decisions: grades, placement in special programs in elementary and high school, admission to university or grad school, hiring, diagnosing educational or psychological problem. Measurement: assignment of numbers according to specific rules psych tests require test takers to answer questions or perform tasks (behaviour) to measure personal attributes, trait or characteristic that is thought to be important in describing or understanding behaviour such as intelligence one of many tools in psychological assessment process psych test can be considered a measurement when the sampled behaviour can be expressing in a derived score different from surveys b/c foxus on individual differences and often report one overall derived score (or scaled scores) 3307d lecture notes objects into diff categories: aka categorical, simply put into categories, classify events or, can"t compare magnitude of difference, e. g. count number of males and females in a movie.
