PSYC 1010 Quiz: Chpt 8/9 Emotional Intelligence, Test construction

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Focuses on the process of intelligence rather than on the amount of intelligence. Consists of the ability to perceive and express emotion. To assimilate or incorporate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion and regulate emotion (realize how emotions can influence behavior) High emotional intelligence will do better in life than low emotional intelligence. Test construction: standardization: a uniform procedure whereby the original test questions are administered to a large group in order to produce questions that can discriminate among people. In order to provide a set of standards or norms by which to judge what an individual score means: reliability- refers to where there is a consistency in test score. Types of reliability: test-retest reliability, test-retest with alternate forms, split-test reliability-determine internal reliability, how much reliability is in the test itself, validity-refers to whether the test is really measuring what it is designed to measure.