Transcription of What Are Psychological Tests?
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3 WhatArePsychologicalTests?CHAPTER1Af ter completingyourstudyof thi s chapter,you shouldbe ableto do the following: Definewhata psychologicalte st is andun derstandth at Psychological te sts extendbeyondpersonalityandintelligenc e test s. Tracethehistory of psychologicaltestingfromAlfredBinet andintelligence testingto thetests of today. Describethewayspsychologicaltestscanbe si milar to an d different fromoneanother. Describethethreecharacteristicsthatareco mmontoallpsy chologicaltests, andunderstandthatpsychologicaltestscande monstrateth esechar acteristics tovariousdegrees. Describetheas sumptionsthatmustbe madewhenusing psy chologicaltes ts. Describethedifferentwaysthatpsychologica lte sts canbe classif ied. Describethedifferencesam on g fourcommonlyusedtermsthatstudentsoftenge tconfused:psychologicalass essmen t, Psychological tes ts, psy chological measurement,andsurveys.
The behaviors a test taker must perform vary by test. For example, a popular intelligence test, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–fourth edition (WAIS-IV), a general test of adult intelligence, requires test takers to (among other things) define words, repeat lists of digits, explain what is missing
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