Psychological Testing
Intelligence Testing
Environment and Intelligence
Modern Intelligence Testing
Personal Application
100
A standardized measure of a sample of a person's behavior.
What is a psychological test?
100
This indicates that he or she displays the mental ability of a child of that chronological age
What is a child's mental age?
100
Some believe intelligence is inherited, others believe it is affected by the environment.
What is nature vs. nurture?
100
Correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables.
What is factor analysis?
100
This occurs when a hypothetical, abstract concept is given a name and then treated as though it were a concrete, tangible object.
What is reification?
200
Reliability, validity
What are the characteristics of a good test?
200
social, verbal, practical
What are the categories that intelligent behaviors fall into?
200
Performance on IQ tests has steadily increased over generations.
what is the Flynn effect?
200
Word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial ability, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, and memory
What are the seven distinct factors of intelligence?
200
scores depend on the number of alternatives they generate and on the originality and usefulness of the alternatives
How do psychological tests measure creativity?
300
Provides information about where a score ranks in relation to standardized norms.
What is the purpose of a test norm?
300
Standford-Binet, Wechsler scale
What is an example of an individual test?
300
If adopted children have similar intelligence as their biological parents, intelligence is inherited.
How do adoption studies show that intelligence is inherited?
300
Contextual, experiential, and componential
What are the three parts of Sternberg's triarchic theory of human intelligence?
300
Contributes to creativity, but does not represent the essence of creativity
What is divergent thinking?
400
Intelligence tests measure general mental ability, intended to measure intellectual potential Aptitude tests measure potential more than knowledge, but assess specific types of mental abilities Achievement tests measures previous learning instead of potential, but gages a person's mastery of knowledge of various subjects
What is the difference between an aptitude, intelligence, and test?
400
It is expensive and time consuming to administer
What are the disadvantages of individual tests?
400
If the adopted children are more like their adopted parents, then their environment influenced their intelligence
How do adoption studies support environmental influence of intelligence?
400
The ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion.
What is emotional intelligence?
400
Creative productivity will depend on motivation, personality, intelligence, and various situational factors.
What determines creative productivity?
500
Content validity, used with achievement tests and educational tests Criterion-Related Validity, used with psychological tests Construct validity, used for tests to measure abstract qualities such as creativity, intelligence, and independence
What are the different types of validity, and what types of tests are they good for?
500
Concerns about cultural bias in intelligence tests
Why shouldn't intelligence tests be used to predict vocational success?
500
Both identical and fraternal twins normally develop under similar environmental conditions. However, identical twins share more genetic kinship than fraternal twins.
why are twin studies used to determine the role of genetic factors in intelligence?
500
He argued that cultural differences in IQ are largely due to heredity.
Who is Arthur Jensen?
500
There are many examples of creative geniuses who suffered from psychological disorders
What evidence is there that there is a connection between creativity and mental illness?
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