AP Psych - Mod 38: Assessing Intelligence

intelligence test

a method for assessing a person's mental aptitudes and comparing them to others using numerical scores

achievement test

test designed to asses what a person has learned

aptitude test

test designed to predict a person's future performance ;

aptitude is the capacity to learn

mental age

level of performance typically associated with children of a certain age

test of intelligence performance made by Binet

standford binet

widely used american revision (by Terman ay Stanford) of Binet's original intelligence test

intelligence quotient

IQ ; ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100

wechsler adult intelligence scale

the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test

contain verbal and nonverbal subtests

standardization

meaningful scores following the same procedures compared with the performance of a pretested group

normal curve

bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes

reliability

the extent to which a test yields consistent results,

consistency of scores on two halves of the test

validity

the extent to which a test measure what it is supposed it

content validity

the extend to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest

predictive validity

the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict