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| measure of a SAMPLE of a person's behavior |
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| Types pf "Mental Ability Tests" |
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- Intelligence Test (potential)
- Aptitude Test (potential in a particular area)
- Achievement Test (Acquired knowledge) |
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| Type of "Personality Test" |
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| - MMPI (Measures apects of personality) |
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| Characteristics of "Standardization tests" |
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- Standardization
- Test Norms
- Percentiles
- Standardization Group
- Reliability
- Validity
- Group vs. Individual administration |
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| Comparing your score with others in an age group |
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| Comparing your score with others who took the same identical test |
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| Test an amount of people to find an AVERAGE |
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(Content, Criterion, Construct)
-Criterion: Your performance is predicted based on your score |
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| A "hypothetical Construct" is... |
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| Behavior believed to reflect intelligence (circular) |
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| "Goal-directed adaptive behavior" is... |
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| Enables cognitive capabilities & neuroanatomy |
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1. Psychometric approach
2. Contextual approach |
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| ("Evolution of Inelligence Testing) "Sir Francis Galton" |
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- Intelligence is Heredity (in the genes)
- Nature/Nurture
- Bell Curve
- Exceptional sensory acquity= high mental ability |
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| ("Evolution of Inelligence Testing)"Alfred Binet" |
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- Mentally subnormal
- Devised testing intended to measure abstract reasoning skills
- "Mental Age" - mental ability typical of child of particular chronological age |
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| ("Evolution of Inelligence Testing)"Lewis Binet" |
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- "Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale"
- IQ "intelligence Quote" (stern) = MA/CA x 100
- Upton Terman's suggestion IQ testing in school became popular |
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| ("Evolution of Inelligence Testing)"David Wechsler" |
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- Performance/Verbal Scale= do things on test, without speaking
-Deviation IQ & normal distribution |
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| The "Standard Deviation point" is? |
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| The "Average Deviation Point" is? |
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| The "Wechsler subtests" requires? |
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| Subjects to furnish information, recognize vocabulary, figure out patterns, & demonstrate basic memory |
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| a Symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are dispersed in the population |
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