PSYC 1002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sat, Intellectual Disability, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
15 Jan 2017
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Psychological test: a standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behaviour. Principal types of tests: mental ability tests. Intelligence test: measures general mental ability: intended to assess intellectual potential. Achievement test: gauges a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects: have a specific focus, designed to measure previous learning instead of potential, personality tests. Personality test: measures various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values & attitudes. Questions don"t have right and wrong answers. Standardization and norms: standardization: the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. Help interpret what test scores mean: percentile score: the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained, standardization group: the sample of people that the norms are based on. Correlation coefficient: a numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables. Two variables that must be correlated are the two sets of scores from the two administrations of the test.
