asgn5a -- PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS: CONSTRUCTING VALID AND RELIABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
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Psychological tests are intended to measure individual differences. One of the first things most people associate with psychology is testing. You can find some kind of "psychological test" in popular magazines, which claim to measure everything from your intelligence or your personality to how good a lover you are. Such tests can be described as "pop tests.” Most people have also heard of and many have taken formal, wellvalidated psychological tests that can predict behavior in a variety of situations. For example, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was developed to predict a variety of abnormal behaviors; the Stanford-Binet test and other related tests were developed to predict children's performance in school.
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