Psychological Testing and Assessment: 6th Edition

Author: Ronald Cohen
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Recommended by the Teaching Guidance Committee of Higher Education Psychology, Ministry of Education! This book is an extremely successful undergraduate textbook, highly praised for 15 years, and this edition has been comprehensively revised and updated based on the previous version. It precisely defines important concepts and accurately measures the degree of individual differences, which can be said to be a necessary task for every psychologist. However, people engaged in other professions often find it difficult to understand why psychologists measure and assess individuals, what they measure, how to do it, and when and where. Fortunately, we have such a textbook that meets the needs of both professionals and laypeople. From a professional perspective, this book vividly and thoroughly introduces the philosophical principles, historical background, and methodological foundations of psychological testing, assessment, and measurement. It not only covers the entire field of psychological testing and assessment but also provides a wealth of useful material for a deeper understanding of related content. For non-professional readers, this book is not only clearly expressed and easy to understand but also has a humanistic touch, closely related to daily life. The author of this book, Dr. Cohen, currently engages in research, journal editing, and corporate consulting. He has never had his own PhD students, but in this field, countless readers have considered themselves his students, and of course, that includes myself. I firmly believe that after careful revision and refinement, this book is a comprehensive upgrade of the undergraduate textbook highly praised over the past 15 years. Psychological Testing and Assessment explores the philosophical principles, historical background, and methodological foundations of psychological testing, assessment, and measurement, while helping students evaluate their pros and cons in practice. It provides the most comprehensive overview of existing achievements in the field of psychological testing and assessment, emphasizing cultural differences and diversity related to experiments and evaluations. Students and teachers who have used this book have widely praised its review of basic terms (such as intelligence and personality), the arrangement of illustrations, and so on. It is precisely these scientific discussions and carefully designed elements that make this book full of vitality. This book is an extremely successful undergraduate textbook, highly praised for 15 years, and this edition has been comprehensively revised and updated based on the original book. It explores the philosophical principles, historical background, and methodological foundations of psychological testing, assessment, and measurement, while helping students evaluate their pros and cons in practice. The reliable methods, new research findings, insightful cultural perspectives, engaging examples and illustrations, critical thinking questions, and the subtle humor that permeates the text, immerse students in the material and help them gain benefits effortlessly.