KMA/PSM Psychometrics

Lecturer: Ivo Müller
Lecture: 2 hours/week + exercise 1 hour/week
Credits: 4
Winter semester
Form of course completion: colloquium

• Quantification of mental qualities, states, and processes.
• Variables: discrete and continuous; nominal, ordinal, and cardinal.
• The problem of measurement and scaling.
• Standardization of test scores, Normal distribution.
• Measures of association, Spearman's correlation coefficient.
• Psychological models of personality.
• Psychological concepts in intelligence.
• Factor analysis, structure of personality and intelligence.
• Construction of psychological test batteries, profiles.
• The theory of true scores.
• Reliability, various types and calculation.
• Validity.