The Two Very Broad Categories of Psychological Tests Are

question 261

Multiple Choice

The two very broad categories of psychological tests are

• A) mental ability and personality tests.
• B) intelligence and achievement tests.
• C) interest tests and aptitude tests.
• D) aptitude and attitude tests.

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Definitions:

Two-tail Test

A statistical test that considers the possibility of observing extreme outcomes in both tails of the distribution.

Nominal Data

Data categorized into discrete groups or categories that cannot be ranked or ordered.

Z-test

A technique in statistics for determining the distinction between the means of two large-sample populations with specified variances.

Chi-squared Test

A rephrased definition: A statistical test that measures the discrepancy between observed results and the results expected under a specific hypothesis, often used to assess goodness of fit or independence in categorical variables.