Intelligence Gurus
Personality Lingo
Assessment Methods
Clinical & Neuro Talk
Educational Evaluation
100

He defined intelligence as an "aggregate capacity" and created the most famous adult intelligence scale.

Who is David Wechsler?

100

This term refers to a relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another.

What is a Trait?

100

The Rorschach and the TAT are classic examples of these types of personality measures.

What are Projective Tests/Techniques?

100

This branch of psychology focuses on the relationship between brain functioning and behavior.

What is Neuropsychology?

100

The acronym for a multilevel framework designed to maximize student achievement and identify learning disabilities.

What is Response to Intervention (RtI)?

200

This type of intelligence (Gc) involves acquired skills and knowledge dependent on culture and education.

What is Crystallized Intelligence (Gc)?

200

This approach to personality test interpretation compares an individual's scores to a larger population sample.

What is a Normative Approach?

200

This term describes a test-taker's tendency to respond in a characteristic manner regardless of the item's content.

What is Response Style?

200

This type of interview is designed to screen for intellectual, emotional, and neurological deficits.

What is a Mental Status Examination?

200

This type of test is designed to measure what a student has learned or accomplished.

What is an Achievement Test?

300

This statistical procedure is the foundation of theories that seek to identify the underlying abilities that constitute intelligence.

What is Factor Analysis?

300

Friedman and Rosenman developed this two-category typology, including a "laid-back" type.

What is Type A and Type B Personality?

300

The Q-sort technique was famously used by this humanistic psychologist to explore the self-concept.

Who is Carl Rogers?

300

In a neuropsychological eval, this type of sign is merely suggestive of a neurological deficit, unlike a "hard sign."

What is a Soft Sign?

300

Vygotsky's concept, central to dynamic assessment, that represents the distance between independent and assisted problem-solving.

What is the Zone of Proximal Development?

400

He theorized seven distinct intelligences, including bodily-kinesthetic and musical.

Who is Howard Gardner?

400

The MMPI scales designed to detect dishonesty or carelessness are known as these types of scales.

What are Validity Scales?

400

In behavioral assessment, this term refers to a change in a person's behavior because they know they are being observed.

What is Reactivity?

400

The legal concept that a clinician has a duty to warn a potential victim of a client's dangerousness stems from this case.

What is Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California?

400

The SAT and ACT are classic examples of these types of tests, used to predict future performance.

What are Aptitude Tests?

500

The progressive rise in intelligence test scores over time since a test was first normed is named this.

What is the Flynn Effect?

500

This term describes the transitory exhibition of a personality trait, as opposed to a more enduring one.

What is a State?

500

This neuropsychological test battery, named after its creators, yields an "Impairment Index" and takes a full day to administer.

What is the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery?

500

This type of memory, often assessed after brain injury, is for skills like riding a bicycle.

What is Procedural Memory?

500

This type of educational evaluation involves the evaluation of a student's collected work samples.

What is Portfolio Assessment?