PSYC 1010 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 - Intelligence and Psychological Testing

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

psychological test: a standardized measure of a sample of a person s behaviour. personality tests measure various aspects of personality including motives, interests, values and attitudes. standardization: the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test: same instructions/questions/time limits. test norms: provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test: standardization group the sample of people that the norms are based on. percentile score: the percentage of people who score at or below the score you have obtained. reliability repeated measurements should yield reasonably similar results. a test s reliability can be tested by checking: test-retest reliability when you compare a subject s scores on two administrations of the same test. can use correlational coefficients to determine the degree of relationship between the two scores (the closer to +1. 00, the more reliable the test)