PSY100Y5 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 Intelligence
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They are intended to assess intellectual potential rather than previous learning or accumulated knowledge: aptitude tests assess specific types of mental abilities. For instance, all subjects get the same instructions, the same questions, and the same time limits so that their scores can be compared meaningfully. This means, for instance, that a person taking the differentia aptitude tests (dat) in madoc, ontario, in. 2011, another taking it in 2014 in bedford, nova scotia, all confront exactly the same test-taking task: test norms provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. Because in psychological testing, everything is relative to other people: percentile score indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. For example, imagine that you take a 40-item assertiveness scale and obtain a raw score of 26.
