PSYC 1020H Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sat, Content Validity, Construct Validity
28 Nov 2017
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Key concepts in psychological testing psychological test standardized measure of individual differences (ie. abilities, aptitudes, interests: responses to a test represent a sample of one"s behaviour; not a representative of characteristic of behaviour. Personality tests: personality tests determines various aspects of personality (ie. motives, interests, values) Validity validity a test"s ability to measure what it was meant to measure: ie. test for assertiveness; must provide evidence that it measures assertiveness. Content validity: content validity refers to the extent a test is representative of the content ie. psych exam that covers more material than covered in class and text would have low content validity. Stern developed the intelligence quotient (iq) iq = mental age/chronological age x100: equation made it possible to compare children of different ages. Guilford divided intelligence into 150 abilities; did not have g factor. Do intelligence tests have adequate reliability? correlational coefficient of most iq tests is in the 0. 90"s reliable.
