PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Phenylketonuria, Heritability, Dsm-5

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

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Psychological & i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)ce tests, heredity & e(cid:374)viro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)ce. It is a standardized measure of a sample (potentially not representative) of a person"s behaviour. These tests are measurement instruments that measure the individual differences that exist among people in abilities, aptitudes, interests & aspects of personality. What are the 2 principal types of tests: mental ability tests: measure general mental ability. Intelligence tests: measure general mental ability and intellectual potential: aptitude tests: assess specific types of potential mental ability. Both personality scales & mental ability tests are standardized measures of behaviour. Refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration & scoring of a test. Same instructions, same questions, same time limits so scores can be compared meaningfully. Test norms provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. They"re needed because in psychological tests, everything is relative.