CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCH ASSESSMENT Flashcards
Introduction to Psych Assessment
What is Test?
Measurement device used to quantify behavior or aid in understandinh behavior.
What is Item?
Questions that make up a test
What is psychological test?
Set of items that measure human characteristics
What is overt behavior?
Directly observed behavior
What is covert behavior?
Indirectly observed behavior
What is Individual test?
Administer to a one person only
What is group test?
Administer to one or two more people
What is achievement test?
Refers to previous learning
What is aptitude test?
Refers to specific skill
What is intelligence test?
Refers to a person ability in solving problem
What is ability test?
Refers to speed and accuracy or both.
What is personality test?
Overt and overt dispositions
Measures typical behavior like traits, temparaments and dispositions
What is objective personality test?
Structured test
With choices like true or false
What is projective test?
Unstructured test
Ambiguous stimulus
Example:
Rorscach inkblot test and TAT
Who started the psychological test?
Chinese people
In what dynasty did they use battery test?
Hans Dynasty
In what dynasty did they improve test?
Ming Dynasty
Who wrote the book “The origin of species?”
Charles Darwin
Who wrote the book “Heredity Genius?”
Sir Francis Galtaon
Who coined the word mental test?
James Mckeen Cattell
Who used the mathematical models of the mind?
J. E Herbart
John Friedrich Herbart
Who demonstrated psychological threshold?
E. H Weber
Ernst Heinrich Weber
Who devised the law that strength of a sensation grow as algorithm of stimulus intensity?
G. T Fechner
Gustav Theodor Feshner