Who established the intelligence quotient, and what is it?
William Stern
Who believed in eugenics movement, and what was it?
Lewis Terman
• Movement that proposed measuring human traits and using the results to encourage only smart people to reproduce
Test that measures skills learned?
Achievement Test
If a test is given in math, but has mostly English questions on it, it lacks
______.
Validity
Who created WAIS, and how many parts does it have?
David Wechsler
• 11 subtests in verbal and performance areas
When a person’s test performance can be compared to that of a represented and pretested sample, the test is said
to be what?
Standardized
Test to predict ability to learn?
Aptitude Test
Term to describe phenomena of when verbal aptitude scores are lower for blacks when tested by whites than when tested by blacks?
Stereotype Threat
Stanford-Binet, WAIS, WISC are all_________.
General Intelligence Tests
5 year old who does as well on test as average 4 year old has mental age of?
4 years old
4 year old with mental age of 5 has what IQ?
125
A test that yields consistent resultseach time is said to have high ______.
Reliability
Who is better at spelling?
Girls
Who is better at chess and why?
Boys – spatial ability – problem solving
Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use
knowledge to adapt to new situations is known as?
Intelligence
Someone who says they have an IQ of 110 has committed what ERROR?
Reification
• Viewing an abstract, immaterial concept as if it was a concrete thing (like height)
Reason for Down Syndrome?
Extra chromosome for 21st chromosome
Statistical procedure that can be used to identify clusters of closely
related test items?
Factor Analysis
Someone who is mildly intellectually disabled may have what kind of IQ?
a. 20 – 34b. 35 – 49c. 50 – 69d. 70 – 130
C – 50 - 69
Emotional intelligence is a criticalcomponent of what type of
intelligence?
Social Intelligence
Who is better at mentally rotating three-dimensional objects ?
Males
Person who demonstrates an exceptional specific mental skill while otherwise remaining very limited in intellectual capacity is said to show signs of what?
Savant Syndrome
Who is better at math problem – solving?
Males
Who scores higher in math computation?
Females
What group outperforms others at math achievement and aptitude
tests?
Asians
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