Differentiate Between Aptitude and Achievement Tests, and Identify Two Criticisms

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Essay

Differentiate between aptitude and achievement tests, and identify two criticisms of testing.

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Definitions:

Stimuli

External events or occurrences that can elicit responses from sensory organs, leading to various forms of responses in an organism.

Gestalt Psychology

A psychological approach that emphasizes the holistic and intrinsic properties of perceptual phenomena, focusing on patterns and configurations.

Principle of Closure

A gestalt psychology principle that the mind tends to perceive incomplete figures as complete by filling in missing information.

Figure-Ground Principle

A visual perception principle that describes how humans differentiate an object (the figure) from its surrounding area (the ground).