Psychometrics
Testing Psychologists
Types of Intelligence
Mental Retardation
Types of Tests
100
A property exhibited by a test that yield the same results over time.
What is Reliability?
100
Came up with the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
What is Robert Sternberg?
100
Involves reasoning ability, memory capacity and speed of information processing.
What is Fluid Intelligence?
100
50-70 IQ Range
What is Mild Mental Retardation?
100
Easy tests, but time limit makes the completion difficult.
What is Speed Tests?
200
Uniform procedures used in an administration and scoring a test.
What is Standardization?
200
Proposed the (g) and (s) factors that spread intelligence across mental activities and broke down that intelligence even further.
What is Charles Spearman?
200
8+ Intelligences: logical-mathematical, verbal-linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic.
What is Multiple Intelligence?
200
Requires total care with an IQ lower than 20 and little to no speech abilities.
What is Profound Mental Retardation?
200
AP Exams is this kind of test.
What is Achievement Tests?
300
A property exhibited by a test that measures what it purports to measure.
What is Validity?
300
Revised the Stanford-Binet intelligence test and the forumla IQ=mental age/chronological age * 100
What is Lewis Terman?
300
Being able to recognize people's intents and motivations.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
300
Child is on a second to fourth grade level by late teens and special education is necessary but they can be semi-independent if in a sheltered environment.
What is Moderate Mental Retardation?
300
Require special training and are only to be administered by the trained psychologist.
What is Individual Tests?
400
Some countries put large piercings through their face as decoration or indication that they belong to a certain group.
What is Norms?
400
Two extra psychologists working on Emotional Intelligence.
What is Salovey and Mayer?
400
Tests such as the SAT measure this type of intelligence.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
400
Limited speech, toilet habits, etc. with systematic training; can contribute to self support under total supervision.
What is Severe Mental Retardation?
400
Measures -Information -Comprehension -Arithmetic -Similarities -Vocab -Digit Span
What is Wechsler Intelligence Tests?
500
Measures subtle changes in brain electrical activity through electrodes placed on the head.
What is EEG?
500
Wrote the principles of Psychology book and applied the idea of natural selection to humans.
What is William James?
500
No new memories into explicit, no new semantic formed.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
500
Results when a goal is both desirable and undesirable;you want to go to the party,but you will be grounded.
What is Approach-Avoidance Conflicts.
500
3 to 6 years of age and often corresponds with a child's entry into a broader social world outside the home.
What is Initiative vs. Guilt?
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