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= = How is psychology tested?

by Paulina Herrera


= Psychology testing = Psychological testing is a field characterized by the use of samples of behavior in order to access psychological construct, such as cognitive and emotional functioning, about an individual. Psychology testing and Psychometrics are very similar; both have many types of tests and exercises. Psychological testing it is commonly used by the psychologists.

 =**﻿Tests ** =

 Psychology is tested with surveys, interviews and special made tests. A great example is "The Rorschach Test". This tests works by you saying to the psychologist what do you see. Depending on what you see the result is made. Some experiments require large amount of people, which are separated in “Control group” and the “Experimental groups”. There 3 types of Research in Psychology:

Other great phsychology test is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the men who invented it were Starke R. Hathaway and J. C. McKinley. It comes in standardized answer sheets that can be hand scored with templates that fit over the answer sheets, but most tests are computer scored.
 * __Correlational Research:__ studies are used to look for relationships between variables.
 * __Cross-Sectional Research:__ are designed to look at a variable at a particular point in time and is focused on finding relationships between variables at a specific point in time.
 * __Longitudinal Research:__ used to discover relationships between variables that are not related to various background variables
 * __The Simple Experiment:__ used to establish cause and effect, so this type of study is often used to determine the effect of a treatment. Each is very unique and specify in many experiments.

= Psychometrics = Psychometrics is a field concerned with the theory and technique of educational measurement and psychological measurement. The people that study psychomtrics are called Psychometrician or simply called Clinical Psychologist. Psychometrics has 5 types of tests and exercises:
 * 1) __Ability tests-__ measures your ability to do stuff
 * 2) __Preference tests-__ discover your preferences and personality
 * 3) __Reasoning tests-__ helps you reason
 * 4) __Judgement tests-__ helps you judge in certain cases
 * 5) __Simulation exercises-__ simulations of a real life experience

= Differences between Psychological testing and Psychometrics = The difference between Psychology testing and Psychometrics is that Psychology testing is more simple and basic and doesn't go far into science and in the other hand Psychometrics does goes more into science and not every type of psychologists can do it. media type="youtube" key="vMSNMvS9b4M" height="390" width="640" align="left"