Unit 1 Flashcards
Test
Systematic procedure for measuring behavior
Functions of test
Allows to make broader statement
Where are tests used
Jobs school police department hospital
Test vs. assessment
Test: subset data collection
Assessment: overall process to make a decision
Domains of assessment
IQ
Cognitive
Job skills
Personality
Psy assessment assumptions
Can predict future behaviors
Fair and unbiased
Where did assessment start
China
Jesuits claim to fame
Came up with written exams
Phrenology
Bumps and grooves on a head and can tell diff traits about them
Psychophysics
How diff does something have to be
IQ testing and quotient
MA/CAx100 tests intelligence based on age
Military assessment
Personality tests to make decisions on who was qualified
My art vs mororla
Realized tests were culturally biased bc turning away African Americans but bc crest was unfair
20th century trends and 21st century trends
20 developing tests 21 technology and computers
Why we need stats
Make inferences about a population
Population
Big picture everyone
Sample
Small amount of the population
Scales of measurement
Nominal ordinal interval and ratio
Celsius
Interval
Course number
Nominal
Weight
Ratio
Grade level
Ordinal
Gpa
Ratio
Teaching eval
Interval
IQ score
Interval
Purpose of factor analysis
Validate measures
Reduce data
How did chinease contribute to pay assessment
It started bc of high population so they started to use tests to see who was best fit. They were the first to solve a problem with a test.
Main purpose of psychological testing
Individual differences
Negative correlation
High scores on x variable are associated with low scores on the y variable
Psychological testing and testing in general
Impact nearly every faucet off daily life
Sounded of psychology
Wundt
Major break through of cognitive ability
Binet-Simon scale
Farenhiet
Interval
Correlation coefficient
-1.0 - 1.0
The scores in frequency distribution are arranged
On horizontal axis
Primary purpose of factor analysis
Reduce larger set of variable to smaller composite set
Wundt
Founder of psychology
Binet and Simon
Declined IQ test
Itard
Father of special education
Gauss
Normal curve
Yerkes
Military test
Gall and spurzheim
Phrenology
Weber and fechner
Psychophysics