Introduction to Intelligence
Tests designed to assess what a person has learned is called this.
Achievement
This term refers to a person's ability to reason speedily & abstractly.
Fluid Intelligence
This refers to the percentage of variation in intelligence within a group that is attributable to genetic factors.
Heritability of Intelligence
Test performance is influenced by cultural experience
Emotional Intelligence
These two psychologists designed a test of intellectual abilities in order to identify children likely to have difficulty learning in regular school classes.
Binet & Simon
Psychological tests show that Isaac has an intelligence score of 62. However, Isaac can, with a few mental calculations, accurately tell the day of the week which Christmas falls for any year in this century. It fair to say this about Isaac.
Isaac is a person with savant syndrome
Your psychology teacher announced that the next test will assess your understanding of sensation & perception. When you get the test, you notice that most of the questions don't relate to those topics. In this example, you would be most concerned with this of the test.
Validity
A collection of very different abilities
Peter completed the Computer Programming Aptitude Test when he applied for his position at Beta Electronics. Ten months later, he took the same test with another company. The fact that his scores were almost the same on the two tests suggest that the test has a high degree of this.
Reliability
When Monica was told that she correctly answered 85 percent of the items on a math achievement test, she asked how her performance compared to the average test-taker. Monica's concern is related to this issue.
Standardization