Testing Concepts
Foundations of Testing
Intelligence and Achievement Tests
Personality Tests
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100
This measurement tool is used to quantify, understand, and predict behavior.
What is a test?
100
This German psychologist is credited for founding the science of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
These are to serve as a comparison, or standard, for evaluation of future subjects scores.
What are norms?
100
The Rorschach is a projective personality test that uses this type of ambiguous stimulus.
What are inkblots?
100
This man created the Rorschach test in 1921. (First and last name)
Who is Hermann Rorschach?
200
This term refers to the accuracy of a test.
What is validity?
200
The origins of psychological testing can be traced to this country, over 4000 years ago.
What is China?
200
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 standardized sample?
200
A personality test uses a set of specific questions and has a defined response such as multiple choice or true or false.
What is a structured personality test?
200
The acronym MMPI stands for this.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
300
This is a person's potential to solve problems, think abstractly, adapt to changing circumstances, and learn through experience.
What is intelligence?
300
Sir Francis Galton developed methods of testing individual differences in these two types of human functions.
What are sensory and motor functions?
300
This was the question format of standardized achievement tests developed after World War 1?
What are multiple choice questions?
300
This term describes the relatively enduring tendencies to act, think, or feel in a certain that distinquishes one person from another.
What is a trait, or personality trait?
300
These two individuals developed and published the TAT in 1935.
Who are Henry Murray and Christina Morgan?
400
These are the type of tests we take in college which measures our level of knowledge.
What is an achievement test?
400
This term is uses to describe the fact that no two people are exactly alike in ability and behavior.
What is (are) "individual differences"?
400
The term for a persons mental ability relative to average mental ability of others of the same age.
What is mental age?
400
This projective personality test consists of ambiguous pictures of scenes or situations.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
400
This statistical procedure, which finds the minimum number of attributes to account for a large number of variables.
What is factor analysis?
500
This type of test measures an individual's potential for learning or developing a specific skill.
What is an aptitude test?
500
These are the two major foundations of testing.
What are measurement of individual differences and pscyophysical measurement (experimental psychology)?
500
This man headed a committee of psychologists that developed two structured group ability/intelligence tests for the US army during World War 1.
Who is Robert Yerkes?
500
The MMPI uses this type of method to determine the meaning of test responses.
What is the empirical method?
500
This 16 questioned test was developed through factor analysis by Cattell in the 40's is still widely used to measure personality today.
What is the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionaire (16PF)?
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