Basic Concepts in Testing
This is a measurement tool or technique used to quantify, understand, and/or predict behavior
What is a test?
The origins of psychological testing can be traced to this country, over 4000 years ago.
What is China?
This term describes the group of people who are given a test under a specified set of conditions and from whom norms are generated.
What is a standardization sample?
The Rorschach is a projective personality test that presents subjects with this type of ambiguous stimulus.
What is (are) inkblots?
This type of test measures an individual’s potential for learning something or for developing a specific skill
What is an aptitude test?
Civil service testing programs began in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States during this century.
What is the 19th century (or the 1800s)?
This is the year the first Binet-Simon Scale of intelligence was published.
What is 1905?
This term refers to relatively enduring tendencies to act, think, or feel in a certain way that distinguish one person from another.
What is “trait?”
This term is used to describe a person’s potential to solve problems, think abstractly, adapt to changing circumstances, and learn through experience.
What is intelligence?
This term is used to describe the fact that no two people are exactly alike in ability and behavior.
What is (are) “individual differences”?
This was the question format of standardized achievement tests developed after World War I.
What is (are) multiple choice questions?
This projective test consists of ambiguous pictures of scenes or situations; subjects must create a story based on each picture shown to them.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
Synonyms for this testing term include “accuracy,” “dependability,” and “consistency.”
What is reliability?
This U.S. psychologist coined the term “mental test.”
Who is James McKeen Cattell?
This individual published an intelligence test in 1939 that yielded several IQ scores relating to different intellectual abilities, rather than a single IQ score.
Who is David Wechsler?
The acronym MMPI stands for this.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
This type of personality test provides a set of statements to which subjects must select the response (e.g., Agree or Disagree) that applies to them best.
What is a structured (or objective) personality test?
Sir Francis Galton developed methods of testing individual differences in these types of human functions.
What are sensory and motor functions?
The Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale overcame a major weakness of the Stanford-Binet scale by its inclusion of this type of scale.
What is a performance (or non-verbal) scale?
This statistical procedure, which finds the minimum number of dimensions or attributes to account for a large number of variables, is the basis for the development of several personality tests.
What is factor analysis?