Lecture 2 Flashcards

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battery of tests which are selected and organized to elicit responses, which will reveal certain psychological characteristics consistently and systematically

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psychological testing

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types of psychological tests

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  • intelligence or IQ test
  • aptitude tests
  • achievement tests
  • interest tests
  • personality tests
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measures composite of general and specific abilities such as verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, short-term memory and abstract/logical reasoning

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intelligence of IQ test

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predict an individual’s ability to learn a skill or what the individual can accomplish with training

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aptitude tests

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designed to measure how much a child has learned or how much he or she knows about a particular subject area

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achievement tests

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reveal an individual’s talents or preferences for certain activities

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interest tests

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provides specific aspects of personality, such as needs, values, attitudes, typical ways of responding to situations and mental disorders

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personality tests

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types of personality tests:

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  • self-reports
  • projective tests
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  • objective
  • limited
  • standardized questionnaires/inventories
  • multiple choice
  • true-false items
  • scales on which people are asked to rate themselves
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self-report (standardized) personality test

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  • unstructured
  • based on the psychodynamic assumption
  • unconscious conflicts and motivation onto an ambiguous stimulus
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projective tests

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assessment settings

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  • educational settings
  • counseling settings
  • clinical settings
  • business settings
  • other settings
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