Chapter 2 Flashcards
When was it believed that tests and testing programs first came into being in China?
As early as 2200 B.C.E.
Beginning in what year was the former system of selecting government officials mostly by heredity was replaced by a system of recommendation and
investigation.
196 B.C.E.
Who created the imperial examination system in the 7th century.
Emperors of the Sui dynasty
Every how many years do examinees who had passed local and provincial exams from all over the empire arrived at the capital to undergo rigorous testing about a wide variety of subjects.
Every 3 years
Example of some tests were directly related to the knowledge a civil servant would need in ancient China
Examinees needed to demonstrate they could:
Read
Write
Keep records
Perform the kinds of arithmetic calculations needed to collect taxes.
Example of some test subjects that may seem surprising to modern sensibility a civil servant would need. in ancient China
Archery
Horsemanship
Religious rites
Classical literature
Poetry writing
State-sponsored examinations for official positions in dynasties
Imperial examination
Indicative of attempts to categorize people in terms of personality types.
Ancient Greco-Roman writings
Psychological assessment in the modern sense began to emerge.
The Renaissance
Had anticipated psychology as a science and
psychological measurement as a specialty within that science in 18th century
Christian von Wolff
