PYC4807 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT DEFINITIONS CHAPTERS 1 & 2 COMPLETE WITH CORRECT ANSWERS.

PYC4807 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
DEFINITIONS CHAPTERS 1 & 2 COMPLETE
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS.

PSYCHONOMETRICS - CORRECT ANSWER -refers to:

* the systematic & scientific way in which psychological measures are developed

* the technical measurement standards:

1) validity

2) reliability

which is both required of such measures



PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - CORRECT ANSWER -a process- orientated activity

* aimed at:

- gathering a wide variety of informations

- using psychological assessment measures / tests

- gather information from other sources like:

#interviews #person's history

* information is evaluated & integrated to reach a conclusion and/or make a decision



ASSESSMENT - CORRECT ANSWER -also called:

# test #testing#assessment # measurement

*involves the measurement of behaviour

*use of key elements of evaluative process for psychological assessment

, ASSESSMENT PROCESS - CORRECT ANSWER -* test selections

* administration

*scoring

*interpreting

*reporting

*feedback



ASSESSMENT MEASURE - CORRECT ANSWER -*an objective, standardised measure that is used
to gather data for a specific purpose:

#to determine a person's intellectual capacity



STANDARDISED CONDITIONS - CORRECT ANSWER -controlled conditions



TEST BIAS - CORRECT ANSWER -if a measure is differently valid for different subgroups



ASSESSMENT BATTERY - CORRECT ANSWER -#combination of measures used in assessment
measure



PROPERTIES OF MEASUREMENT - CORRECT ANSWER -#identity #magnitude #equal unit size=
equal intervals # absolute zero



MAGNITUDE - CORRECT ANSWER --Greatness of size, strength, or importance

= a scale has the property of magnitude if we can say that one attribute is more than/less than
or equal to another