PSYC 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Job Performance, Summative Assessment, Takers
16 Oct 2012
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Earliest documented use of tests usually attributed to the chinese who tested public officials to. During han dynasty written exams were included for the first time and covered five major areas: agriculture, civil law, geography military affairs, and revenue. German mathematician who made important contributions in astronomy and the study of magnetism different locations. In the course of tracking star movements he found that his colleagues often came up with slightly. He plotted the frequency of the observed locations systematically and found the observations to take the slope of a curve- normal distribution. He determined that th best estimate of the precise location of a star was the mean of the observations and that each independent observation contained some degree of error. In the 19th century physicians and psychiatrists in england and the u. s developed classification systems to help classify individuals with mental retardation and other mental problems.
