Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Chapter 15. Psychological Tests.

This presentation was very clear to me, even though I knew most of the information given. Psychological tests assess abilities, feelings, attitudes and behaviors. This help can be helpful for people to make decisions. Achievement tests, aptitude tests and tests of interests are all related. Psychologists use personality tests to describe and measure various aspects of people´s personalities. Most of the tests we take, we know we are having them with anticipation. One big example of this is the SAT, schools usually program them with specific dates. So they give us a amount of time to study well and get prepared. There are many types of test parts such as, true and false, short-answer questions, essay questions and multiple choice questions. For multiple choice questions we first leave out what we are sure they are not right and then try with the possible answers. When taking tests we should gather information, practice and be test-wise. Most of the tests we take at school are achievement tests. These are tests that that measure people´s abilities, or aptitudes. But other tests help people identify their interests. Personality tests are usually used to identify psychological problems and disorders.  There are two types of personality tests: objective tests and projective tests. 

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