AP Psychology - Intelligence and Testing

Flynn Effect

Supports the need to restandardize because the population has become smarter over the past 50 years

Internal Validity

The degree to which the results of a test are due to the questions being asked and not another variable

External Validity

The degree to which results from a test correlate to the real world.

Projective Test

When ambiguous stimuli, open to interpretation are presented

Inventory-Type Test

Participants answer a standard series of questions

Inkblot Test

A projective test in which subjects are shown an image of an inkblot and then characterize it.

Thematic Apperception Test

A projective test in which a participant is tasked with generating a story when presented with people with vague relationships with other people.

Albert Binet

First began to measure intelligence on children by testing mental age.

Lewis Terman

Modified Binet’s test and renamed it the Stanford-Binet Test

G Factor

Intelligence applied across mental activities

S Factor

The breakdown of intelligence into multiple components, such as math equations of linguistic puns

Factor Analysis

A statistical measure for analyzing test data

Robert Sternberg

Defined intelligence as analytical, practical, and creative intelligence.

Proposed that intelligence included verbal, mathematical, musical, spatial, kinesthetic, environmental, interpersonal, and intrapersonal

Howard Gardner