Psychological Testing With Infotrac: Principles, Applications, and Issues

Easy-to-read and accessible, this book effectively communicates the excitement and dynamics of the field of psychological testing. Robert Kaplan and Dennis Saccuzzo provide students with a current analysis of the most widely used psychological tests in schools, professional training programs, business, industry, the military, and clinical settings. As students read through the book, they get a clear picture of how psychological tests are constructed, how they are used, and how an understanding of them can make a difference in their careers and everyday lives.Students will get a very real sense of how psychological tests are constructed, how they are used, and how an understanding of them can make a difference in their careers and everyday lives. Comprehensive and accurate, yet interesting and personally relevant, this book gets and keeps students' attention through the use of informal discussions and real-life examples.

Robert Kaplan is the chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is an award-winning researcher and author of 14 books and over 300 publications. He is past-president of several organizations, including the American Psychological Association Division of Health Psychology, Section J of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific), the International Society for Quality of Life Research, and the Society for Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Kaplan is the editor-in-chief of the "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" and an associate or consulting editor for several other academic journals.