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cognitive psychology and assessment practices  

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  • Introduction An assessment is a tool designed to observe a person's behaviour and produce data that can be used to draw inferences concerning some characteristic of that person, such as what the person knows, or feels, or believes (the ‘construct’). This process of reasoning from evidence (i.e. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment; Cognitive Psychology and Assessment Practices]

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