PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Psychological Testing, Content Validity, Personality Test
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A psychological test is a standardized measure of a sample of a person"s behavior. Your responses to a psychological test represent a sample of your behavior. Because of the limitations of the sampling process, test scores should always be interpreted cautiously. Most tests can be placed in one of two broad categories: mental ability and personality tests. Intelligence tests, aptitude test, and achievement tests. Aptitude tests asses specific types of mental abilities. Achievement tests gauge a person"s mastery and knowledge of various subjects. Personality tests measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. Do not have right and wrong answers. 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. A percentile score indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained.
