Chapter 1: Psychological Testing and Assessment Flashcards
How do psychological assessments help understand people?
Psychological assessments apply scientific rigor to the art of understanding people.
What do psychological assessments help with?
Psychological assessments help us understand people.
Where can the roots of contemporary psychological testing and assessment be found?
Early twentieth century France.
In what year did Albert Binet and his colleague (Simon) publish a test designed to help place Parisian students in appropriate classrooms?
1905
What did the Binet-Simon test become known as?
The intelligence test.
How were psychological testing and assessments introduced in the US?
The military used psychological testing to test intellectuality and emotional problems in 1917.
Who developed a refined method to score Binet’s test known as Intelligence Quotient (IQ)?
William Stern
