Psychology 2080A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Psychological Testing, Human Behavior, Takers

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Sarah Mackrell

Document Summary

Chapter 21 ethics and the future of psychological tesing. Three major professional issues coninually play an especially important role in the current status and the future of psychological tesing. One of the most important consideraions underlying tests is its reliability/dependability of the results. Reliability places an upper limit on validity. According to the standards for educaional and psychological tesing a test that is totally unreliable has no meaning. Whatever is being measured must itself have stability. Saying that a test has reliability implies that test results are atributable to a systemaic source of variance, which is stable itself. Most tests assume the source of variance is due to the person rather than some external factor: we know that this is not enirely true since social environments afect behavior. Human behavior may be the result of long-term stable behavioral tendencies, the external or internal environments, or some other factor (e. g. the interacion between the traits and environment)