Research
designed by David Weschsler
What is WAIS research?
A mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
a physical cause of an intellectual disbility
What is Down Syndrome?
the group of people studied over a period of years
what is a cohort?
a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
What is an intelligence test?
type of verbal intelligence the cross-sectional method showed declining scores with age.
What is inductive reasoning?
following and retesting the same people over time
What are longitudinal studies?
A condition of mild to severe disability caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is Down Syndrome?
An example of a longitudinal study is...
a) Researchers randomly select 50 students from a high school with 2000 students. The 50 students are given intelligence tests.
b) A group of kindergartners is given an intelligence test and are retested every other year for 30 years.
What is B?
Exams covering what you have learned in this course
What is an achievement test?
comparing people from large families to people with small families mental abilities
What is an example of a cross-sectional study?
What is fluid intelligence?
Low verbal comprehension scores on the WAIS test, while scoring high in other area indicates this type of disability
What is a reading or learning disability?
A type of research on aging that showed a slight increase in intelligence scores as the people went into adulthood
What is the longitudinal method?
A college entrance exam which seeks to predict your ability to do college work.
(Ex)
What are less educated people (older) with better-educated ones (younger)?
Accumulating knowledge and verbal skills with age
What is crystallized intelligence?
What is a low IQ test score?
What is a difficulty adapting to independence?
Something that should be considered when conducting longitudinal studies
What are confounding variables?
(could affect the presence of members of the sample population at various points while conducting research)
it is the test that David Wechsler designed which its subtests are recognizing similarities such as vocabulary, letter-number sequence, and block designs
What is a WAIS test?
the conclusion that “the decline of mental ability with age is part of the general [aging] process of the organism as a whole.”
What are David Wechsler's cross-sectional WAIS results?
Comparing people of different ages at the same point in time
What are cross-sectional studies?
Name two out of three more criteria for an intellectual disability?
What is limited conceptual skills?
What is limited social skills?
What is limited practical skills?
What is tracing the evolution of traits over a longer period of time?
Something that is measured by every task on an intelligence test
What is "g"?