PSYC37H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: World War I
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Standardized tests tend to disadvantage women and ethnic minorities. Tests such as the lsat and gre are the most difficult modern psychological tests. Item: is a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly. this response can be scored or evaluated. the data they produce are explicit and subject to scientific inquiry. are specific questions that make up the test. Psychological test: is a set of items that are designed to measure characteristics of human begins that pertain to behaviour. Some attempt to measure the extent to which someone might engage in a particular overt (observable behaviour: covert behaviour takes place within an individual, thus cannot be observed, measures past or current behaviour or predicts future behaviour. The meanings of scores can change dramatically, depending on how a well-defined sample of individuals www. notesolution. com scores on a test. Scales: relate raw scores on test items to some defined theoretical or empirical distribution.
