Meaning and Nature of Psychological Test A psychological test is an instrument that indicates how much a participant has of the quality the test measures. A test can be defined as a standardized procedure for sampling behavior and describing it with categories or scores. Psychological testing was originally designed for two purposes: to measure intelligence and to detect personality disorders. Over time‚ psychological testing has expanded to measure diverse concepts. Psychological tests are
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basic foundation of personality. And the Secondary Traits are the traits that are sometimes related to attitudes or preferences and often appear only in certain situations or under specific circumstances. With the help of Allports research Raymond Cattell‚ a trait theorist reduced the number of main personality traits from the initial 4‚000 characteristics down to 171. After identifying closely related terms he reduced his list to just 16 personality traits‚ he thought these 16 traits are the source
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Ethics Assignment 3 Lizzie Cattell In the essay “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” author‚ Peter Singer‚ exercises his theory about everyone’s moral obligation to help world hunger. Every day people make choices‚ whether it be what pants to wear‚ what food items to buy at the store‚ or whether or not you donate money to those suffering. Across the world there are avoidable sufferings according to Singer as long as people do their part; “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening
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The scientific study of the mind and its activities‚ both normal and abnormal". This implies a united group of researchers working together on issues of human activity.Five of the major schools are outlined below (there are more‚ but these are the predominant ones) Behaviourism Behaviourist dismiss all mentalistic concepts and observe only external behaviour. They attempt to control the ’stimulus’ and record the ’response’ of an organism. They view people controlled by their environment and specifically
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changed to Philosophy and Science. In 1898‚ she also joined Mu Chapter‚ Phi Beta Kappa (Vassar Encyclopedia‚ n.d.). Even though Columbia University did not admit women graduate students‚ Washburn received special permission to attend and study under Cattell as a "hearer." While waiting to find out if she would be accepted as a "hearer" she took the School of Mines course in quantitative chemical analysis at the Barnard laboratory where President Butler suggested she read Wundt ’s long article on psychological
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theory of the 1890s was another example. Also in the 1890s‚ Hugo Münsterberg began writing about the application of psychology to industry‚ law‚ and other fields. Lightner Witmer established the first psychological clinic in the 1890s. James McKeen Cattell adapted Francis Galton’s anthropometric methods to generate the first program of mental testing in the 1890s. In Vienna‚ meanwhile‚ Sigmund Freud developed an independent approach to the
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Learning Disability The federal regulations on defining a specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes that are used to communicate language‚ spoken‚ or written and may affect the imperfect ability to listen‚ think‚ speak‚ read‚ write‚ spell‚ or to perform mathematical calculations‚ including conditions such as perceptual disabilities‚ brain injury‚ minimal brain dysfunction‚ dyslexia‚ and developmental aphasia. Specific learning disability does
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The Major Pitfalls (Historical and Current) Associated with Using Psychological Measures in the Multicultural South African Context Alaina Kamille Govender University of Kwa-Zulu Natal South Africa is deeply embedded in the roots of its past and so it inevitable that psychological assessment today would be greatly influenced by the history of our country. Foxcroft (1997) argued that there is a grave importance to understand the impact that South Africa’s past apartheid policies have had on the development
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Psychological Bulletin 1997‚ Vol. 121‚ No. 2‚ 219-245 Copyright 1997 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc‚ 0033-2909/97153.00 Intelligence‚ Personality‚ and Interests: Evidence for Overlapping Traits P h i l l i p L. A c k e r m a n a n d E r i c D. H e g g e s t a d U niversity of Minnesota‚ Twin Cities The authors review the developmentof the modem paradigm for intelligenceassessmentand application and consider the differentiationbetween intelligence-as-maximal performance
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Step 1: Defining the constructs you want to measure and outline the proposed content of the Test Aptitude tests for job applicants : First conduct a job analysis (task analysis) : listing the important components of the position you are trying to fill. The Job analysis will contain the critical incidents‚ A list of work related behaviors which are essential for successful completion of the job. A well designed aptitude test will contain items which measure the entire cross-section
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