People
Tests of Mental Abilities
Test Construction
Miscellaneous
100

This person came up with the theory of 8/9 different intelligences.

Who is Howard Gardner?

100

This is the test Lewis Terman redesigned

What is the Stanford-Binet?

100

This curve is often fitted to psychological test scores

Normal distribution curve

100

Condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing

What is savant syndrome?

200

This person created the idea of general intelligence or ā€œgā€.

Who is Charles Spearman?

200

This is the modern most popular individual intelligence test.

What is the Weschler Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?

200

An AP Psych Unit 5 test is an example of this type of test.

What is an achievement test?

200

This is the name for the phenomenon in which intelligence scores have steadily increased since the Stanford-Binet and WAIS tests were first given.

What is the Flynn Effect?

300

This person created the idea of the three intelligences theory.

Who is Robert Sternberg?

300

During the early 20th century, Lewis Terman revised Binet's intelligence test for use in the United States, creating the Stanford-Binet. Terman believed intelligence tests revealed this about a person.

What is intelligence a person was born with?

300

An accepted psychological test must be/have

What is standardized, reliable, or valid?

300

The level of performance typically associated with children of a certain age

What is mental age?
400

This person created the term intelligence quotient or IQ.

Who is William Stern?

400

The purpose of the earliest version of the intelligence test, developed by Alfred Binet.

What is predicting school achievement/identify children who needed additional academic assistance? (Wording does not need to be exact)
400

Creating two different forms of a test is an example of this principle.

What is split half reliability?

400

This test was designed as an attempt to "justify" racial inferiorities of immigrants.

What is the Stanford-Binet test?

500

This person came up with the idea of 7 intelligences.

Who is LL Thurstone?

500

The measure given by Mental Age/Physical Age * 100 that is no longer used (because it doesn't work well with adults)

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
500

The process of defining uniform testing by comparing scores with the performance of a pretested group.

What is standardization?

500

Name the 3 intelligences of the triarchic theory.

What is analytical, creative, and practical?

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