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082			_a150.287 GRE
100			_aGregory, Robert J.
245			_aPsychological testing : history, principles, and applications
250			_a2nd
260			_aNoida _bPearson India _c2017
300			_axix, 713 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
505			_a The History of Psychological Testing -- The Origins of Psychological Testing -- The Importance of Testing -- The Consequences of Test Results -- Rudimentary Forms of Testing in China in 2200 B.C. -- Psychiatric Antecedents of Psychological Testing -- The Brass Instruments Era of Testing -- Changing Conceptions of Mental Retardation in the 1800s -- Influence of Binet's Early Research upon His Test -- Binet and Testing for Higher Mental Processes -- The Revised Scales and the Advent of IQ -- Early Testing in the United States -- Early Uses and Abuses of Tests in America -- The Invention of Nonverbal Tests in the Early 1900s -- The Stanford-Binet: The Early Mainstay of IQ -- Group Tests and the Classification of WWI Army Recruits -- Early Educational Testing -- The Development of Aptitude Tests -- Personality and Vocational Testing after WWI -- The Origins of Projective Testing -- The Development of Interest Inventories -- Summary of Major Landmarks in the History of Testing -- Tests and the Testing Process -- The Nature and Uses of Psychological Tests -- Definition of a Test -- Further Distinctions in Testing -- Types of Tests -- Uses of Testing -- Who May Obtain Tests -- Sources of Information on Tests -- The Testing Process -- Standardized Procedures in Test Administration -- The Impact of Nonstandard Testing -- Desirable Procedures of Test Administration -- Influence of the Examiner -- Background and Motivation of the Examinee -- Issues in Scoring -- Norms and Reliability -- Norms and Test Standardization.
520			_a In addition to customary coverage of traditional topics and instruments, the author provides detailed presentations for several topics not always found in other textbooks. These topics include: history of psychological testing, early uses and abuses of intelligence, neuropsychological foundations of ability, factor analysis, assessment of learning disabilities, consumer assessment, environmental assessment, and courtroom testimony.
650			_aPsychological tests. Psychological tests -- History. Psychologische tests. Geschichte. Test. Tests psychologiques -- Histoire. Psychological tests Psychological tests -- History
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