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100

The Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon is better known as this.  

What is the Stanford-Binet

100

Considered the "father of the testing movement," this 19th-century British scientist was one of the first to systematically investigate individual differences in human abilities and believed intelligence could be studied through sensory and reaction-time measures 

Who is Sir Francis Galton?

100

1,726,966

What is the norming sample size for the Army tests?

100

This term describes the belief that intelligence is largely inherited and genetically determined.

What is hereditarianism?
100

This American psychologist is associated with the development of the concept of general intelligence, often represented by the letter g.

Who is Charles Spearman?

200

This 1917 event marked substantial growth in the use of IQ tests in the United States.

What is the U.S. entry into WWI?

200

This American psychologist substantially revised Binet's test at Stanford University, creating what became known as the Stanford-Binet.

Who is Terman?

200

About 3 points per decade. 

What is the rise in IQ in the US attributed to the Flynn Effect?

200

Early intelligence testing was sometimes used to support this inhumane movement that sought to influence reproduction based on perceived genetic fitness.

What is eugenics?

200

This person, Cattell's student and collaborator, expanded the broad abilities concepts adding abilities .  beyond Gf and Gc, including Gv, Ga, Gsm, and Glr.  


Who is John Horn?

300

Instead of an intelligence quotient, early IQ tests used this term.  

What is mental age?

300

David Wechsler studied under these famous names; they will be familiar to you if you're taking a REMS class.

Who are Pearson and Spearman?

300

1939.

What is the year that David Wechsler published the Wechsler-Bellevue?
300

Terman helped popularize this numerical concept of intelligence, calculated using mental age and chronological age.

What is IQ?

300

This psychologist proposed a hierarchical model in which general intelligence sits at the top, broad abilities such as fluid and crystallized intelligence occupy a middle level, and narrower specific abilities occupy the bottom.

Who is John Carroll?

400

In 1904, the minister of public instruction in Paris tasked Alfred Binet to find a way to distinguish between what groups?

"normal" and "intellectually disabled" children

400

He based his work on the observations of his own children, and many of his original tasks are still used today.

Who is Alfred Binet?

400

16 years, 0 months-90 years, 11 months

What is the age range for the WAIS-5?

400

The WAIS-5 introduced this index to provide a more distinct measure of reasoning involving novel information. 

What is Fluid Reasoning?

400

In the CHC model, g is at the highest level, broad abilities such as Gf and Gc are beneath it, and this third level contains narrower, more specific cognitive skills.

What are narrow abilities?

500

This test was clinically driven instead of primarily theory-driven.

What is the Wechsler Bellevue?

500

The names behind CHC Theory.

Who are Cattell-Horn-Carroll?

500

7; 10

What is how many subtests the WAIS 5 requires to achieve a full scale IQ (FSIQ), a decrease from the  WAIS-IV which needed  this many?  

500

Culture, environment, education, opportunity. 

What are factors that influence IQ scores?

500

Cattell labeled "knowledge and skills acquired through education and experience, such as vocabulary and factual knowledge" as this.

What is Gc or crystallized intelligence?

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