PSY 3307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Takers, Lewis Terman, Bench Press
1 Nov 2016
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The results of psychological tests can effect our immediate environment (ie. criteria for diagnosing mental disorders, acceptance into graduate schools) Consequences of low-quality decisions can be significant. American psychological association (apa) defines a psychological test as a device or procedure in which a sample of an examinee"s behaviour in a specified domain is obtained and subsequently evaluated and scored using a standardized process. Robert j. gregory (2010) defined a test as a standardized procedure for sampling behaviour and describing it with categories . Psychological tests make inferences about human attributes, traits, or characteristics. Inferences using evidence to reach a conclusion. Psychological tests require that you perform some behaviour to make inferences about human attributes, traits, characteristics, or to predict future outcomes. Tests can differ in various ways: in the behaviour you perform, what they measure, their content, how they are administered and how they are formatted, and their psychometric quality.
