PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Meritocracy, World Trade Organization, Flynn Effect

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Ability to think, understand, reason, and cognitively adapt to & overcome obstacles. Measure knowledge & thinking skills at an individual has acquired (college quiz, tests) Designed to measure an individual"s potential to perform well on a spec. range of tasks (job) Measurement of psychological traits & abilities, incl. personality, attitudes, intelligence. Concept of psychometrics; degree to which a test actually measures the trait/ability it is intended to measure. Concept of psychometrics; degree to which a test predicts future performance. Measurement of the degree to which a test produces consistent results. & scored in a uniform ( standardized ) way across large #s of individuals. Statistics; allow individuals to be evaluated relative to a typical/standard score. Tests: typical # points b/w an individual"s score. Percentage of scores below a certain point e. g. score of 100"s percentile rank of . 50, 50% of pop. scores below this level. Avg. /typ. test score for a spec. chronological age.