Chapter 1

• Psychological Testing - process of measuring psychology-related variables. Measures and evaluate the sample of behaviors through the use of procedure.
• Psychological Assessment - gathering and integrations of psychology-related data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation through various tools. 

• Test - measurement device used to quantify behavior understanding and predictions of behavior.
• Item - specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly that can be scored or evaluated.
• Scales - tools that relate raw scores on test items to some defined or empirical distributions.
• Psychological Test - device for measuring characteristics of human beings that pertains to overt and covert behavior. Measures past, present, or future human behavior.
• Overt - Behavior that is observable
• Covert - Behavior that is hidden
• Individual Test - 1:1
• Group Test - 1:Many
• Ability Test - measures skills in terms of speed, accuracy, or both
• Achievement Test - measures previous learning
• Aptitude Test - measures potential for acquiring skill
• Intelligence Test - measures potential to solve problems, adapt to changing circumstances and profit form experience
• Personality Test - measures behavior, traits, temperament, dispositions. Asks various questions that aligns with the personality.
• Structured - self-report statement or scale to which the person responds quantitatively
• Projective Test - ambiguous stimulus and the respondents are the test takers. In a form of pictures or Illustrations. Response requirements are unclear.
• Thematic Apperception Test - TAT
• Children Thematic Apperception Test - CTAT
• Collaborative Psychological Assessment - there is partnership between assessor and assessee. It may work as “partners” through final feedback.
• Therapeutic Psychological Assessment - to develop psycho therapeutic intervention (Clinical Setting)
• Dynamic Assessment - follows a certain model: 1. Evaluation, 2. Intervention, 3. Evaluation
• Psychological Test - standardized measuring device or procedures to describe the ability, knowledge, skills, attitude of the individual.
• Measurement - process of quantifying amount of a particular occurrence of event, situation, phenomenon of a particular person.
• Assessment - process of synthesis/ synthesizing the results of measurement with reference to some norms sand standards.
• Evaluation - process of judging the worth of any occurrence of event (implication)
• Assessment - process of synthesis/ synthesizing the results of measurement with reference to some norms sand standards.
• Setting Goals - tend to base how you set goals based on the assessment
• Determining Interventions - from the results, what can you do to achieve the goals?
• Reviewing Progress - after interventions, is there some improvements or not?
• Closure - general goal is to make the client self- sufficient not to be dependent to you. To help them become independent.
• Content - tests items that measure the construct (variable)
• Score - a code or summary statements that reflects an evaluation of performance.
• Scoring - a process of assigning such evaluative codes or statements.
• Psychometric - measurement that is psychological in nature.
• Psychometrics - science of psychological measurement.
• Psychometric Utility - usefulness or practical value that a test or assessment technique has a particular purpose (practicality, usefulness)
• Therapeutic Psychological Assessment - able to design a therapeutic intervention to help a client (clinical setting)
• Educational Assessment - used for educational setting, referral
• Retrospective Assessment - deals with the past, historical background of the individual