PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

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systematic use of tests to quantify and to make predictions about psychological performance

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Psychological Testing

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measurement of psychological construct through instrument

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Psychological Testing

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label for cluster of covarying behaviors

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Psychological Construct

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components of psychological testing

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Norm-Referenced test
Interview
Observation 
Informal Assessment
Psychological Functioning

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standardized on a norm group

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Norm-Referenced test

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more open and less structured

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Interview

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can provide additional valuable assessment information

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Observation

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involves taking information gathered from psychological assessment

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Informal Assessment

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intellectual abilities, cognitive skills, etc

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Psychological functioning

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measurement device for quantifying behavior

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Test

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used to measure human behavior

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Educational Test

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helps measure more detailed aspects of cognitive functioning

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Neuropsychological Evaluation

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scientific discipline concerned with construction of assessment tools, measurement instruments, and formalized models

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Psychometrics

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process of assigning numbers or scores to individual that represent some characteristics

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Psychological Measurement

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methods that allow to estimate the attributes of a person, group, or program

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Assessment Procedure

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types of setting where assessment are conducted

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Educational Setting
Diagnostic Test
Clinical Setting
Group Testing

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tests are administered early in school life to help identify children who may have special needs

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Educational Setting

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tool of assessment used to help narrow down and identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention

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Diagnostic Test

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test and many tool of assessment are used to help screen for or diagnose behavioral problems

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Clinical Setting

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used primarily for screening - that is identifying those individuals who require further diagnosis evaluation

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Group Testing

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clinically evaluates child experiencing learning difficulties

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School Psychologist

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uses assessment procedures to determine if a particular methods of psychotherapy is effective in treating a particular problem

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Psychotherapy Researcher

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called to give an opinion as to the reality of client’s psychological problems

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Psychologist-Consultant

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give an opinion as to defendant’s competency to stand trial

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Court-appointed Psychologist

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give an opinion regarding the extent of a convicted violent prisoner’s rehabilitation

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Prison Psychologist

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the ultimate objective of many such assessments is the improvement of the client in terms of adjustment, productivity, or some related variables

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Counseling Setting

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in decision-making about the careers of personnel. a wide range of achievement, aptitude, interest, motivational, and other test may employ in the decision to hire as well as in related decision regarding promotions, transfer, job satisfaction, and eligibility for further training

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Business and Military Settings

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government licensing, certifications, or general credentialing of professionals

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Governmental And Organizational Credentialing

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testing was instituted to select who would obtain government jobs

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2200 B.C. China

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attempts to categorized people in terms of personality types which included some bodily fluid as factor believed to influence personality

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Ancient Greek-Roman writing

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anticipated psychology as a science and psychological assessment as a specialty within that science

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Christian von Wolff

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clear distinction between insane and mentally defect; differentiated between hallucinations and illusions

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Jean Etienne Esquirol

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pioneered in the training of the mentally retarded. He believed that mentally retarded individuals could be trained and learn to do things. He introduced ________

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Edward Seguin

The Physiological Method

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the first experimental psychologist. Known as the “father of experimental psychology” and the founder of the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany 1879.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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primary responsible for launching testing movement

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Francis Galton

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he is an important figure in psychology thanks to research on intelligence, his use of quantitative methods and his focus on establishing psychology as a legitimate science

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James Cattell

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an American who is prominent in developing of psychological testing. In his article in 1890, the term ______ was used for the first time in the psychological literature

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James McKeen Cattell

mental test

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also known as g factor

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General Intelligence

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underlies specific mental skills related to areas such as spatial, numerical, mechanical, and verbal abilities

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General Instrument

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defined intelligence as “the tendency to take and maintain a definite direction: the capacity to make adaptations for the purpose of attaining a desired end the power of autocriticism.”

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Alfred Binet

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helped develop a statistical technique known as factor analysis, which allows researchers to use several different test items to measure common abilities

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Charles Spearman

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intelligence is adjustment or adaptation of individual to his total environment

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Freeman

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intelligence as the ability to plan and structure one’s behavior with an end in view

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Das

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“mental activities” involve in purposive adaptations, shaping-off, and selection of real-world environment relative in one’s life.

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Howard Gardner