History Of Psychological Testing.

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Esquriol's (1838) contribution to psychology testing was?

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his test were the 1st time language was as an indicator of intelligence.

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Seguin (1866/1907) attempted to train intellectually impaired people through sensory and muscle tests. He used what is called a Seguin broad, this required the person to put the correct shape in a slot.

What is this kind of testing described as?

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Performance testing.

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early experimentalist who worked with Wundt in his leipzig lab were not as interested in individuals differences, they were concerned with general descriptions. what were there major contributions to testing?

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there intelligence tests emphasized sensory phenomena and Standardised procedures.

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Back now to individuals differences.

four names, name there contributions to and focus in testing.

SirFrancis Galton:

Karlperson:

J.M Catell:

Kraepelin and ebbinghaus:

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Sir Francis Galton: anthropometrictests. Measures of sensory of discrimination, focused on muscle strength reaction time, looked how genetics influenced intellect, he also used stats in his work very important development.

Karl person: correlation r, basic stat for reliability and validity.

J.M Catell: first used the term "mental test", studying differences in reaction time.

Kraepelin and ebbinghaus: assessed complex cognitive behaviour. Kraepelin, arithmetic test, focus on psych patients. ebbinghaus,memory span, arithmetic, sentence completion, focus on children.

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Binet-simon scale, is an intelligence test proposed in 1905 as a measurement for?

it was revised in 1908 to include what? and was also revised in 1911 to include what?

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This scale was first designed to measure intellectual deficits in kids.

Revised in 1908, grouped items into age levels, i.e 3yr old item was if 90% of 3yrs old could solve them.

was revised in 1911 to extend the norm to adults.

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Stanford-binet scale 1916 Terman introduced what to the scale?

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introduced IQ, "IQ is equal to someone's mental age times a 100 divided by their chronological age"

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Described the difference between the Army alpha and beta group test (otis, 1917) .

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Army Alpha, generally routine testing, Army Beta, for those who had trouble reading or reading English.

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What are the advantages of group testing?

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Ergonomical and efficient in comparison to individual tests.

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Binet was famous for coining the term?

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Mental age.

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what would mental age be described as on the binet-simon scale?

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the age level your answers correspond with.

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Kraepelin used what to measure personality?

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freeassociation

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Due to the large amount of data Kraepelin was obtaining Sommer developed what statistical procedure?

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factoranalysis. Reducing large bodies of data into sets.

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woodworth developed?

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Self-report inventories.

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Hartshorneand May 1920's and 1930's

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Performanceor situational tests. focus:whether children were capable of stealing, lying or cheating. sε;t

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Rorschachinkblots, thematic apperception test, are examples of?

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projective tests.

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A psychological test is a?

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Standardised measure of a sample of behaviour

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administered and interpreted in the same way across all testing occasions. the result is the difference in the people not in how the test is administered power.

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Standardised.

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the aim is to tell us something beyond it, generalised to the population.

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A sample of behaviour.

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two types of board test, what are they?

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Ability: determine maximum performance Personality: determine typical performance

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what are some of the areas testing is used in?

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clinical

schools

business and industry

counselling

research