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Standardization
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Assessing Intelligence
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Psychometrics
100
THIS psychometric properties is used to assess the extent to which the items on an intelligence test measure a person’s intelligence.
What is construct validity?
100
According to the Stanford-Binet formula for an intelligence quotient (IQ), the IQ of a ten-year-old child with a mental age of seven and a half years is this.
What is 75?
100
The correlations between the IQ scores of identical twins reared apart are lower than those of identical twins reared together. This is explained by the importance THIS.
What is nurture (environment)?
100
The Psychology Aptitude Test (PAT) was administered to incoming college psychology majors. Their scores were later compared to their performance in the introductory psychology course, and high scores on the PAT were related to high grades in the course. Therefore, the PAT has THIS.
What is predictive validity?
100
A test that fails to predict what it is designed to predict lacks THIS.
What is validity?
200
Which of the following is the most appropriate criterion for evaluating the predictive validity of an intelligence test? IQ Scholastic aptitude School grades
What are school grades?
200
On individual intelligence tests such as the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler scales, an IQ of 100 indicates that the test taker scored THIS in comparison to their peers.
What is at the average level?
200
The hypothesis that intelligence is in part inherited is best supported by the fact that IQ correlation for pairs of THIS KIND OF TWIN is greater than for normal siblings.
What are identical twins?
200
A fifty-two-year-old man notices a decrease in her ability to solve unfamiliar problems quickly is experiencing a decline in THIS type of intelligence.
What is fluid intelligence?
200
A statistical technique that would allow a researcher to cluster such traits as being talkative, social, and adventurous with extroversion is called THIS.
What is factor analysis?
300
The correlation between test scores and some other relevant measure of a personality test establishes a test's THIS.
What is validity?
300
The intelligence quotient (IQ) has traditionally been based on the relationship between an individual’s mental age and his or her THIS.
What is chronological age?
300
All of the following are reasons for requiring clearly specified procedures for the administration and scoring of assessment measures, such as standardized tests, EXCEPT to... A) allow comparisons among scores of various test takers B) decrease the amount of time needed to administer the test C) increase the reliability and validity of the test scores
What is B.
300
Correlations for children and their adoptive parents are statistically significant and positive implies that THIS contributes to the determination of IQ.
What is the environment (nurture)?
300
A test that allows a student to be exempted from a college course is labeled THIS kind of test.
What is an achievement test?
400
When a teacher compares the performance of her students on the even- and odd-numbered questions in a multiple-choice test, she is determining this kind of reliability.
What is split-half reliability?
400
Scoring an IQ of 200 and having a chronological age of 10 means a student has a mental age of THIS.
What is 20?
400
Research on THIS phenomenon indicated that students might not do as well as they can on a test if they are informed that people of their ethnicity, age, or gender usually do not perform well on the tests.
What is stereotype threat?
400
To score high on a test of THIS, a person’s answers should be original and valuable.
What is creativity?
400
The correlation between scores obtained on two halves of a single test yields information about the test’s THIS.
What is reliability?
500
The performance of the group on which an IQ test is standardized sets THIS which the performance of later test takers can be evaluated.
What are the norms?
500
Receiving a Full Scale IQ score of 125 on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales indicates that you scored this many standard deviations above the mean.
What is more than one standard deviation?
500
The correlation between scores of participants who take two forms of the test is +0.90 is evidence of the new test's THIS.
What is its validity?
500
Charles Spearman’s concept of THIS is most accurately defined as a single, underlying intellectual capacity measured by intelligence tests.
What is "g"?
500
Alfred Binet’s efforts to measure intelligence were directed at predicting THIS.
What is children's success in school?