History and Basics Flashcards
Designed a test to help Paris school children in appropriate classes
Binet (1905)
Responsible for the early beginnings of testing
Chinese civilization
First purpose of testing
Selecting applicants for government jobs
Results posted on the wall
Releasing the roll
State-sponsored examinations; exemption to taxes if pass
Imperial examinations
First psychologist to teach statistical analysis of experimental results
James Mckeen Cattell
First truly psychological test of mental ability developer
Alfred Binet
Research on trends in psychological testing in educational, training and research institutions in the the PH
Carlota
Created the PUP (Panukat ng Ugali’t Pagkatao)
Virgilio Enriquez
An PH act to regulate the practice of psychology
Article 3, section 3, RA 10029
Psychology as a science and psychological measurement as a specialty
Christian Von Wolff
Classify people accdg. to their natural gifts
Francis Galton
Pioneered the use of a statistical concept central to psychological experimentation and testing; started coefficient of correlation
Francis Galton
Focused on how people were similar; in contrast to Galton
Wilhelm Wundt
Researched on the individual differences in reaction time
James Catell
Originated the concept of test reliability and factor analysis
Charles Spearman
Word association technique das a formal test
Emil Kraepelin
Little-known founder of clinical psychology
Lightner Witmer
Created Cattel Infant Intelligence Scale (CIIS)
Psyche Catell
Defined intelligence as the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment
David Wechsler
Former name of WAIS
Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale (WBIS)
The change made from WBIS to WAIS
Revise and extended range fron young children to senior adulthood
First group intelligence test
Army beta and alpha
First widely used self-report personality test
Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory
Limitations of the Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory
- respondents have poor insights of themselves
- testakers unwilling to reveal about themselves
Used interpreters in test administration
Henry Goddard
Tests that deal with the impact of language and culture mental ability tests
Culture-specific tests
Test users are sensitive to legal and ethical mandates cincerning the use of tests with regard to hiring, firing, and related decision making. This means that scores on a test job ability should only be influenced by job-related variables
Vocational assessment
Voluntary and mandatory efforts undertaken by federal, state, local governments to combat discrimnation and to promote equal opportunity ine education and employment for all
Affirmative action
How to change (affirmative action) on testing
Alter test scoring procedures accdg. to set guidelines
Most tenacious in updating and revising info for testing and tests
Oscar Buros
Provide testakers with a means of learning the criteria by which they are being judged
Truth-in testing legislation
Legal disputes and resolution of criminal and administrative matters by the court
Litigation (judge-made law)
Require some technical knowledge of test construction and ise and support psych field
Level b tests
Require substantial understanding of testing and supporting psychological fields together with supervised experience in ise of these devices
level c tests
Freedom of individual to pick and chose for himself the time, circumstances, extent to which he wishes to share or withhold from others his attitudes, beliefs, behavior and opinions
Privacy
Info that is protected by law from diclosure in a legal proceeding (e.g. doctor-client relationship)
Priveleged info (not absolute)
Matters of communication outside the courtroom, privelege protects clients from disclosure in judicial proceedings
Confidentiality
Process of Assessment
- Referral for assessment from a source
- Identify reason for referral
- Tool selection
- Report making of findings to the answer of referral question
Assessor and assessee as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback
Collaborative assessment
Therapeutic self-discovery and new understandings are encouraged throughout the assessment process
Therapeutic assessment
A form of collaborative assessment wherein the assessor conducts an assessment and then give an intervention and then conducts an assessment again to the assessee
Dynamic assessment
Computer-assisted psychological assessment
Computer adaptive testing
- test content and length is tailored accdg. to the test taker’s ability
- no skipping/going back feature
Psychophysical and signal detection procedures
the application of psychophysical and signal detention procedures, where a signal is presented and the subject is required to report whether he saw it
