PSYC37H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychological Testing
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Typically a person"s understanding of a psychological test would be intelligence tests (iq), inkblots and true-false inventories like the mmpi. That is, they will think psychological test involve testing intelligence and personality, when in reality psychological testing has many different uses and implications. The consequence of testing is its results shape a person"s destiny; it essentially changes a person"s life. That is why we have positions like psychometricians a specialist in psychology or education who develops and evaluates psychological tests. A test is a standardized procedure for sampling behaviour and describing it with categories or scores. Norms or standards (by which the results can be used to predict other, more important behaviour) Prediction of non-test behaviour (using norms and standards) Normed referenced test tests that use a well-defined population of persons for their interpretive framework. Criterion referenced test tests that measure what a person can do rather than comparing results to the performance levels of others.
