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psychological test
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standardized measure of a sample of a persons behavior
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intelligence tests
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measure general mental ability
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aptitude tests
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assess specific types of mental abilities
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achievement tests
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gauge a person's mastery and knowledge of various subjects
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personality tests
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measure various aspects of personality including motives interests values and attitudes
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standardization
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refers to uniform procedures used in administration and scoring of a test
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test norms
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provide info about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test
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percentile score
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indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained
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reliability
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measurement consistency of a test
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correlation coefficient
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numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables
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validity
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refers to ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure
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content validity
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refers to the degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it's supposed to cover
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criterion-related validity
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estimated by correlating subjects' scores on a test with their scores on an independent criterion (another measure) of the trait assessed by the test
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construct validity
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extent to which evidence shows that a test measures a particular hypothetical construct
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mental age
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indicated that the child displayed the mental performance typical of a child of that chronological (actual) age
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IQ
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child's mental age divided by chronological age times 100
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factor analysis
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correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables
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