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Psychological Testing: History Principles and Applications is a comprehensive book for psychology students. The book explains the characteristics, objectives, and wide-ranging effects of psychological testing. It bundles the traditional topics with detailed presentations on neuropsychological and geriatric assessment, and explains the early uses and abuses of testing, assessment of learning disabilities, testing in special settings, race differences in IQ, and cheating on national group achievement tests. In addition, the book takes readers through the latest versions of the most widely used tests, looking at the intricacies of the testing process, and details the problems surrounding the wisdom of testing. The book is an indispensable book for all psychology students. About Richard Langton Gregory Richard Langton Gregory was an English psychologist, and academician as well as Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. He is best remembered for the development of cognitive psychology and for the theory of "Perception as hypotheses." He also wrote: Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, The Intelligent Eye, Odd Perceptions, and Evolution of the Eye and Visual System.