History and Basics Flashcards

1
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Designed a test to help Paris school children in appropriate classes

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Binet (1905)

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2
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Responsible for the early beginnings of testing

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Chinese civilization

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3
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First purpose of testing

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Selecting applicants for government jobs

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4
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Results posted on the wall

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Releasing the roll

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5
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State-sponsored examinations; exemption to taxes if pass

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Imperial examinations

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6
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First psychologist to teach statistical analysis of experimental results

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James Mckeen Cattell

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7
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First truly psychological test of mental ability developer

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Alfred Binet

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8
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Research on trends in psychological testing in educational, training and research institutions in the the PH

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Carlota

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9
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Created the PUP (Panukat ng Ugali’t Pagkatao)

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Virgilio Enriquez

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10
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An PH act to regulate the practice of psychology

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Article 3, section 3, RA 10029

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11
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Psychology as a science and psychological measurement as a specialty

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Christian Von Wolff

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12
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Classify people accdg. to their natural gifts

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Francis Galton

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13
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Pioneered the use of a statistical concept central to psychological experimentation and testing; started coefficient of correlation

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Francis Galton

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14
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Focused on how people were similar; in contrast to Galton

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Wilhelm Wundt

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15
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Researched on the individual differences in reaction time

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James Catell

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16
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Originated the concept of test reliability and factor analysis

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Charles Spearman

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17
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Word association technique das a formal test

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Emil Kraepelin

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18
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Little-known founder of clinical psychology

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Lightner Witmer

19
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Created Cattel Infant Intelligence Scale (CIIS)

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Psyche Catell

20
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Defined intelligence as the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment

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David Wechsler

21
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Former name of WAIS

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Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale (WBIS)

22
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The change made from WBIS to WAIS

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Revise and extended range fron young children to senior adulthood

23
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First group intelligence test

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Army beta and alpha

24
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First widely used self-report personality test

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Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory

25
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Limitations of the Woodworth Psychoneurotic Inventory

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  • respondents have poor insights of themselves

- testakers unwilling to reveal about themselves

26
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Used interpreters in test administration

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Henry Goddard

27
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Tests that deal with the impact of language and culture mental ability tests

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Culture-specific tests

28
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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

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Vocational assessment

29
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Voluntary and mandatory efforts undertaken by federal, state, local governments to combat discrimnation and to promote equal opportunity ine education and employment for all

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Affirmative action

30
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How to change (affirmative action) on testing

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Alter test scoring procedures accdg. to set guidelines

31
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Most tenacious in updating and revising info for testing and tests

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Oscar Buros

32
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Provide testakers with a means of learning the criteria by which they are being judged

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Truth-in testing legislation

33
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Legal disputes and resolution of criminal and administrative matters by the court

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Litigation (judge-made law)

34
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Require some technical knowledge of test construction and ise and support psych field

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Level b tests

35
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Require substantial understanding of testing and supporting psychological fields together with supervised experience in ise of these devices

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level c tests

36
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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

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Privacy

37
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Info that is protected by law from diclosure in a legal proceeding (e.g. doctor-client relationship)

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Priveleged info (not absolute)

38
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Matters of communication outside the courtroom, privelege protects clients from disclosure in judicial proceedings

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Confidentiality

39
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Process of Assessment

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  1. Referral for assessment from a source
  2. Identify reason for referral
  3. Tool selection
  4. Report making of findings to the answer of referral question
40
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Assessor and assessee as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback

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Collaborative assessment

41
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Therapeutic self-discovery and new understandings are encouraged throughout the assessment process

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Therapeutic assessment

42
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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

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Dynamic assessment

43
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Computer-assisted psychological assessment

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Computer adaptive testing

  • test content and length is tailored accdg. to the test taker’s ability
  • no skipping/going back feature
44
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Psychophysical and signal detection procedures

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the application of psychophysical and signal detention procedures, where a signal is presented and the subject is required to report whether he saw it