PSYC37H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: David Wechsler, Insanity Defense, Thematic Apperception Test
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Standardized tests tend to disadvantage women, test takers whose parents have lower incomes and levels of education, and ethnic minorities. Intelligence: a person"s general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing circumstances, think abstractly, and profit from experience. Structured personality tests: provides a statement, usually of the self-report variety, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative responses (e. g. true or. Projective personality tests: unstructured; the stimulus or the required response or both are ambiguous (e. g. rorschach test) Assume that a person"s interpretation of an ambiguous stimulus will reflect his or her unique characteristics. Psychological testing: all the possible uses, applications, and underlying concepts of psychological and educational tests: evaluate individual difference or variations among individuals. The basic concepts and fundamental ideas that underlie all psychological and educational tests. Reliability: the degree to which a certain inference or interpretation based on a test is appropriate: the accuracy, dependability, consistency, or repeatability of test results.
