Leading-edge psychological tests and testing research.9781600215711 Leading-edge psychological tests Psychological Tests Definition Psychological tests are written, visual, or verbal evaluations administered to assess the cognitive and emotional functioning of children and adults. and testing research. Ed. by Marta A. Lange. Nova Science Publishers 2007 213 pages $79.00 Hardcover BF176 Lange (whose professional affiliation is not specified) has compiled a dozen chapters by international specialists working in the rapidly-evolving field of psychological testing/assessment. The first chapter introduces a PASS (Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive) processing framework with supporting research for measuring the interaction of cognition cognition Act or process of knowing. Cognition includes every mental process that may be described as an experience of knowing (including perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, and reasoning), as distinguished from an experience of feeling or of willing. and emotion in both normal and dysfunctional dys·func·tion also dis·func·tion n. Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or social group. dys·func conditions. Others examine the validity of theory-linked psychometric psy·cho·met·rics n. (used with a sing. verb) The branch of psychology that deals with the design, administration, and interpretation of quantitative tests for the measurement of psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, and measures and empirical support for assessment tools including health-related quality of life measures health-related quality of life measure Functional status measure, health status measure, quality of life measure Social medicine A patient outcome measure that extends beyond traditional measures of M&M, including dimensions such as physiology, function, social , practical intelligence (not assessed in traditional IQ tests), and non-English versions of standard tests (e.g., the Beck anxiety and depression inventories). ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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