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Test construction strategies are the various ways that items in a psychological measure are created and decided upon. They are most often associated with personality tests but can also be applied to other psychological constructs such as mood or psychopathology. There are three commonly used general strategies: inductive, deductive, and ...
Within each pair, the subjects choose one statement as more characteristic of themselves, reducing the social desirability factor of the test. Due to the forced choice, the EPPS is an ipsative test, [2] the statements are made in relation to the strength of an individual's other needs. Hence, like personality, it is not absolute.
Due to the fuzzy nature of constructs (concepts) in psychology, it is very difficult to use criterion-referenced approaches, such as those used in some parts of medicine (e.g. pregnancy tests). This is why construct validation is very important to personality test development.
Psychological tests can include a series of tasks, problems to solve, and characteristics (e.g., behaviors, symptoms) the presence of which the respondent affirms/denies to varying degrees. Psychological tests can include questionnaires and interviews. Questionnaire- and interview-based scales typically differ from psychoeducational tests ...
It should only contain pages that are psychological tests or lists of psychological tests, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about psychological tests in general should be placed in Category:Psychological testing or one of its subcategories.
A continuous performance task, continuous performance test, or CPT, is any of several kinds of neuropsychological test that measures a person's sustained and selective attention. Sustained attention is the ability to maintain a consistent focus on some continuous activity or stimuli , and is associated with impulsivity .
The test was developed in 1920 by psychologist Samuel C. Kohs (1890–1984), a student of Lewis Terman, [3] building on earlier and similar designs (such as Francis N. Maxfield's Color Cube Test). [4] Kohs described the 1920s version of the test as a series of 17 cards which increase in complexity as the test progressed. [5]
The student validation sample consisted of 396 undergraduate psychology students attending the same university as members of the scale development sample. All members of this sample This sample was similar to the scale development sample in terms of age and ethnicity, 30% White/Caucasian, 46% Asian/Asian-American, 8% Hispanic/Latino, 2% Black ...