Assessing Intelligence: Key Concepts and Tests

These flashcards cover key terms and definitions related to assessing intelligence, including various intelligence tests, principles of test construction, and theories related to intelligence measurement.

Mental Age

A measure of intelligence test performance that corresponds to the chronological age of a given level of performance.

Stanford-Binet Test

The widely used American revision of the original intelligence test devised by Binet.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

Intelligence Quotient, calculated as (mental age/chronological age) x 100.

Aptitude Test

A test designed to predict a person's future performance based on their capacity to learn.

Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale, the most widely used intelligence test containing verbal and performance subtests.

Standardization

Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparing with the performance of a pretested group.

Flynn Effect

The observed increase in intelligence test scores over time worldwide.

Reliability

The extent to which a test yields consistent results across different administrations.

Validity

The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure or predict.

Content Validity

The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.

Predictive Validity

A measure of how well a test predicts the behavior it is designed to measure, assessed by correlating test scores with criterion behavior.

Who proposed stanford-binet test

Lewis Terman

Achievement Tests

A test designed to acces what a person has learned

What are the four subtests in the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale?

Similarities, vocabulary, block design, and letter-number sequencing

Pigmalien

wondered if they could recreate the conditions of all the kids labeled exceptional

Preschool

important contributer to higher IQ scores since 1950 (flynn effect)

This is an epigenetic factor

Environment

Contributes greately to school success. Ex. how teachers treat them and the expectations for the children