Psychological Testing
Psychological test is a standardized measured of a sample of a person’s behavior
Psychological tests are used extensively in research, but most of them were developed to serve a practical purpose outside of the laboratory
Most tests can be place in one of two broad categories; mental ability test and personality test
Measuring Intelligence
Binet’s breakthrough
Alfred Binet
Believed intelligence was a collection of mental abilities; best way to assess it was to measure a person’s ability to perform cognitive tasks
Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
contained items arranged in order of increasing difficulty
measured vocabulary, memory, common knowledge, and other cognitive abilities