PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Content Validity, Construct Validity
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Psychological test: a standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behaviour. Aptitude tests: assess speci c types of mental abilities. Achievement tests: gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects. Personality test: measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. Standardization: refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. Test norms: provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. Percentile score: indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. Reliability: refers to the measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques) One widely used approach is to check test retest reliability, which is estimated by comparing subjects" scores on two administrations of a test. Correlation coef cient: is a numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables.
