Psychological Testing

Catalog description

This course provides a survey of various assessment measures that are available to psychologists, teaches students to think critically about the extent to which these tests accurately measure the attributes they purport to measure, offers an understanding of how these tests were developed, and provides students the opportunity to develop a psychological measure of your own. Intelligence, achievement, aptitude, and objective/subjective personality assessment will be covered. We also discuss how the clinical interview can be used as an assessment tool, and discuss issues relating to test selection, administration, construction, and use in applied settings. Students also learn to compute and interpret several statistical procedures that are used in the development of a psychological measure, including reliability and validity coefficients, and factor analysis. Note that students will NOT be trained to do clinical interpretations. Prerequisite: PSYC 214.