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Psychological Testing Flashcards

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a set of items that are designed to measure characteristics of human beings that pertain to behavior

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Psychological Test

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an individual’s observable activity

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Overt behavior

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Types of Test

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  • Achievement Test
  • Aptitude Test
  • Ability Test
  • Personality Test
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refers to previous learning

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Achievement Test

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refers to the potential for learning or acquiring a specific skill.

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Aptitude Test

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refers to a person’s general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing circumstances, think abstractly, and profit from experience

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Intelligence

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referred to capacity and potential

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Ability Test

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related to the overt and covert dispositions of the individual and measure typical behavior.

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Personality Test

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Types of Personality Tests

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  • Structured Personality Test
  • Projective Personality Test
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A type of personality test in either the stimulus (test materials) or the required response—or both—is ambiguous.

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Projective Personality Test

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refers to all the possible uses, applications, and underlying concepts of psychological and educational tests

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Psychological Testing

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Main Use of Psychological Testing

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To evaluate individual differences or variations among individuals

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also determined a child’s mental age

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Binet-Simon Scale (1908)

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relatively enduring dispositions (tendencies to act, think, or feel in a certain manner in any given circumstance) that distinguish one individual from another.

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Traits

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tend to remain so regardless of whether or not things are going well.

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Optimistic People

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tends to look at the negative side of things

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Pessimistic People

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Proponents of Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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Henry Murray and Christina Morgan in 1935

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method of finding the minimum number of dimensions (characteristics, attributes), called factors, to account for a large number of variables.

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Factor Analysis

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early structured personality test that assumed that a test response can be taken at face value.

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Woodworth Personal Data Sheet

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highly controversial projective test that provided an ambiguous stimulus (an inkblot) and asked the subject what it might be.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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A projective test that provided ambiguous pictures and asked subjects to make up a story.

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The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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A structured personality test that made no assumptions about the meaning of a test response.

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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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A structured personality test developed according to the same principles as the MMPI.

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The California Psychological Inventory (CPI)

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A structured personality test based on the statistical procedure of factor analysis.

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The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF)

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methods used to provide a concise description of a collection of quantitative information

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Descriptive Statistics

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displays scores on a variable or a measure to reflect how frequently each value was obtained.

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Frequency Distribution

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used to sumarize data

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Mean Statistics

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a score that can have different values

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Variable

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arithmetic average score in a distribution

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Mean

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an approximation of the average deviation around the mean.

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Standard Deviation

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methods used to make inferences from observations of a small group of people known as a sample to a larger group of individuals known as a population

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Inferential Statistics

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Certain tests have different normative groups for particular age groups

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Age-Related Norms

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one of the most common uses of age-related norms is for growth charts used by pediatricians.

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Tracking

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describes the specific types of skills, tasks, or knowledge that the test taker can demonstrate

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Criterion-Referenced Test

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used to relate a score to a particular distribution for a subgroup of a population

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Norms

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