PSYC 1010 Chapter 9: INTELLIGENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

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

Document Summary

Psychological test: a standardized nit of 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 prodecures used in the administration and scoring of a test: test should have the same scoring systems, instructions, type of questions, and 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 upon. Percentile score: the percentage of people who score at the same or below the score that you have. Reliability: repeated measurements based upon the test should have similar results. You can check the reliability of a test by: 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.