1. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING chapter 9
June 10, 2008

2. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
Is one of the major contributions that the field of Psychology has made in the study of explaining and predicting human behaviour

3. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
The people who do this regularly are called PSYCHOMETRISTS
Hospitals
Clinics
Agencies
Private practice
Schools

4. MENTAL ABILITY TESTS INTELLIGENCE TESTS APTITUDE TESTS
Measure general mental ability
APTITUDE TESTS
Assess specific types of mental abilities
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS
Gauge mastery and knowledge in various subjects

5. TESTS OF PERSONALITY
Assess various aspects of a person’s personality such as:
Motives
Interests
Values
Attitudes
Styles of problem solving
Emotional makeup
Clinical scales

6. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
All tests [mental abilities and personality] are:
Standardized
Reliable
Valid
Restricted
BIG HINT: KNOW THESE TERMS

7. INTELLIGENCE TESTING Verbal Intelligence Practical Intelligence
Social Intelligence [emotional intelligence
Intelligence tests are CULTURE-SPECIFIC

8. Fig 9. 7 – The normal distribution
Fig 9.7 – The normal distribution. Many characteristics are distributed in a pattern represented by this bell-shaped curve. The horizontal axis shows how far above or below the mean a score is (measured in plus or minus standard deviations). The vertical axis is used to graph the number of cases obtaining each score. In a normal distribution, the cases are distributed in a fixed pattern. For instance, 68.26% of the cases fall between +1 and –1 standard deviation. Modern IQ scores indicate where a person’s measured intelligence falls in the normal distribution. On most IQ tests, the mean is set at an IQ of 100 and the standard deviation at 15. Thus, an IQ of 130 means that a person scored 2 standard deviations above the mean. Any deviation IQ score can be converted into a percentile score, which indicates the percentage of cases obtaining a lower score. The mental classifications at the bottom of the figure are descriptive labels that roughly correspond to ranges of IQ scores.

9. SUMMARY Models of Memory – Chapter 7 Learning Theory – Chapter 6
STM
LTM
Learning Theory – Chapter 6
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
Observational Learning
Psychological Testing – Chapter 9