BY:- FIROZ QURESHIDEPT. PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

INTELLIGENCE & APTITUDE TESTS

INTRODUCTION Intelligence is the ability to

understand world , think rationally or logically , and use of resources effectively when faced with challenges of problems.

Aptitude is a natural ability or propensity. It is the capacity of person to achieve along specific ways. It makes the special abilities and achievements in special area.

INTELLIGENCE According to Garret, one may

define “intelligence as including the ability demanded in the solution of problems which require the comprehension and use of symbols.”

TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE:According to Sternberg,s Triarchic

theoryGARDEN(1999) Linguistic intelligence Logical-mathematic intelligence Spatial intelligence Musical intelligence Bodily kinestetic intelligence

Intrapersonal intelligence Interpersonal intelligence Naturalistic intelligence

ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE Stanford-binet intelligence scale Wechsler test Uzgiris hurt scale Bhatia’s battery test Cattell Culture Fair Kohs block Leiter International Performance Scale Miller Analogies Test

Otis-Lennon School Ability Test

Raven's Progressive Matrices Sternberg Triarchic

Abilities Test Turing test Wechsler Adult Intelligence S

cale Wechsler Intelligence Scale fo

r Children Wechsler Preschool and Prima

ry Scale of Intelligence Wonderlic Test

TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE TESTS

BINET-SEMON TEST/INTELLIGENT QUOTIENT ( IQ) Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon believed

intelligence to be a learned entity. This test was formed in order to measure intelligence of children in accordance with their age. The test was used and varied among children from the ages of 3 years to 12 years. (Binet & Simon, 1905) Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon believed that children had a different form of intelligence than adults; therefore, they needed to be measured in a different way.

Levels of Classification:

Average: mental age matches chronological age

Advanced: mental age is higher than chronological age

Retarded: mental age is lower than chronological age.

IQ = MA*100/CA

LEVELS IQ Idiot 0-25 Imbecile 26-50 Moron 51-70 Borderline 71-80 Low normal 81-90 Normal 91-110 Superior 110-120 Very superior 121-130 Genious/near genious 140 and above

WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (WAIS): The Wechsler Adult Intelligence

Scale (WAIS) is a test designed to measure intelligence in adults and older adolescents. It is currently in its fourth edition (WAIS-IV). The original WAIS (Form I) was published in February 1955 by David Wechsler, as a revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale that had been released in 1939.

Versions of the WAIS There have been four different versions

of the WAIS: WAIS (1955) WAIS-R (1981) WAIS-III (1997) WAIS-IV (2008)

The Current Version The current version of the WAIS was

released in 2008 and includes ten core subtests as well as five supplemental subtests.

The test provides four major scores:

Verbal Comprehension Perceptual Reasoning Working Memory Processing Speed

Additionally, the WAIS-IV provides two overall summary scores:

Full Scale IQ General Ability Index

APTITUDE: An aptitude is the ability to

learn or to develop proficiency in an area (if provided with appropriate education or training). It is like talent. Examples are various types of reasoning, artistic ability, motor coordination, musical talent.

APTITUDE & THEIR TESTS :

In vocational & educational guidance aptitude tests are very much important because Aptitude determines one’s success in a particular subject or vocation. There are so many tests to measure the aptitude.

MEASUREMENT OF APTITUDES :

GENERAL APTITUDE TESTS: An aptitude is the ability to

learn or to develop proficiency in an area (if provided with appropriate education or training). It is like talent. Examples are various types of reasoning, artistic ability, motor coordination, musical talent

The General Aptitude Test Battery, also known as the GATB, is a professional career aptitude test which measures nine different aptitudes and can be used to help assess the likelihood that you will be successful in specific careers or training programs.

Intelligence Verbal aptitude Spatial aptitude Perceptual

Clerical perception Motor coordination Finger dexterity Manual dexterity

DIFFERENTIAL APTITUDE TEST (DAT) Developed by US psychological

corporation. It has proved more successful in predicting academic success and found specially useful for providing education & vocational guidance to secondary school children.

Verbal reasoning Numerical ability Abstract reasoning Clerical speed and accuracy

Mechanical reasoning Space relations Language usage