Psychology 2080A/B Chapter 1,2,4,5: Textbook Notes Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Psychological test: or educationl test is set of items designed to measure characteristic of humans beings that pertain to behaviour. Covert takes place within person ad cant be directly observed (thoughts) Scales: used to deal with problems of knowing percentage of correc items a person obtained. Achievement: previous learning, and test measure how much you learn. Intelligence: persons general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing circumstances, think abstractly, and profit from experience: attempts to separate prior learning from potential for learning have not succeeded. Human ability: encompassment of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence. Structure personality test: provide statement, susually self-reportedd, and require subject to choose between two or more responses like true or false. Projective personality test: either the stimulus or the required responses or both are ambiguous (rorschach inkblot) Reliability: accuracy, depdendability, consistency, repeatability of test results: also degree to which test scores are free of measurement errors.