Intelligence Testing and Cognitive Abilities Review

A collection of vocabulary-style flashcards based on lecture notes covering intelligence theories, standardized testing protocols (WAIS, SB5, Woodcock-Johnson), and research findings in cognitive psychology.

Processing Speed

The WAIS-5 Index most likely to have the most detrimental effect from a Traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Crystallized intelligence

Skills and knowledge derived from formal and informal education, often measured through language comprehension items.

Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory

A theory of cognitive abilities that distinguishes between $10$ broad abilities and over $70$ narrow abilities.

Ceiling rules

Procedures in the Woodcock-Johnson IV that assist a clinician in knowing when to stop a subtest due to an examinee's inability to respond correctly.

Triarchic theory

A theory of intelligence consisting of three factors: analytical, creative, and practical.

Seattle Longitudinal Study

A study finding that measures of perceptual speed and numeric ability begin to show age-related declines sooner than measures of vocabulary and verbal memory.

Working Memory Index (WAIS-IV)

An index consisting of the Digit Span, Arithmetic, and Letter-Number Sequencing subtests.

Heritability estimate

The proportion of variability in intelligence that is due to inherited factors.

WAIS-IV Mean and Standard Deviation

On the WAIS-IV, the mean is $100$, meaning a Full Scale IQ score of $85$ is one standard deviation below the mean.

Infant intelligence tests (prior to $24$ months)

Assessments that generally have little validity for predicting adult IQ test scores.

Stanford-Binet, 5th Edition subtest metrics

Subtests (such as vocabulary and quantitative reasoning) have a mean of $10$ and a standard deviation of $3$.

Testing the limits

The process of re-administering a test or portions of it while modifying standardized procedures to gain further clinical information.

Stroop Color-Word Association Test

An assessment tool used to specifically evaluate behavioral inhibition, often when assessing for ADHD.

Verbal Comprehension Index (WAIS-IV)

The WAIS-IV index that is least sensitive to (least adversely affected by) Alzheimer's dementia.

Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence

The two general components of intellectual ability as defined by Horn and Cattell (1966).

Gardner's multiple intelligences

A model including spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and logical-mathematical intelligences; it does not include 'practical' intelligence as a distinct category (which belongs to Sternberg).

Fraternal twin concordance rate

The concordance rate for IQ scores between dizygotic twins reared together is approximately $.58$.

Successful intelligence

According to Sternberg (1996), this consists of three abilities: analytical, creative, and practical.

Achievement tests as aptitude substitutes

The argument that past accomplishments are a good indicator of what can be expected in the future.

Figure Weights

A subtest required for the computation of the FSIQ for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V).