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| Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale |
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| Used with children. Best known predictor of future academic achievement. Originally by Alfred Binet, revised by Lewis Terman. |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) |
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| Most commonly used intelligence test for adults. |
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| Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- used for children aged six to sixteen |
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| What does IQ correlate with? |
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| IQ correlates most positively with IQ of biological parents and socioeconomic status of parents (measured by job-type or income) |
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| John Horn & Raymond Cattell |
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| Found that fluid intelligence declines with old age while crystallized intelligence does not |
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| Knowing how to do something |
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| Crystallized intelligence |
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| Studied relationship between birth order and intelligence; found that more children in family, less intelligent they would be, firstborns were more intelligent than second-borns, greater spaces between children leading to higher intelligence |
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| general factor in human intelligence (g) |
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| general factor in human intelligence |
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| measures how well you know a particular subject; measures past learning |
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| measures your innate ability to learn; intended to predict later performance |
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| Process of sorting cards into a normal distribution; each card has a different station pertaining to personality, one end, he'll place cards that is characteristic of himself, toward the other end, cards that are not characteristic of himself. Neutral cards are in the middle. |
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| Whose theory is the MBTI test derived from? |
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| Carl Jung's personality theory |
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| Created the Internal-External Locus of Control Scale |
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| Internal-External Locus of Control Scale |
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| Determines whether a person feels responsible for the things that happen (internal) or that he has no control over th events in life (external) |
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| California Personality Inventory- personality measure used for more "normal" and less clinical groups than MMPI |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality INventory- has measures found to discriminate between different disorders (three validity scales - questions that assess lying, carelessness, and faking) |
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| Empirical-keying/Criterion-keying approach |
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| The selection of items that can discriminate between various groups (repsonse indicates if they are like a particular group or not) |
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| researched intelligence in relation to performance |
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| measurement of fascism or authoritarian personality |
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| Felt that situations (not traits) decided actions |
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| Combines longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches |
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| Within-subject vs. Between-subject design |
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| Within-subject design tests the same person at multiple time points and looks at changes within that person, while a between-subjects design compares 2 groups of people at the same time point |
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| Compares 2 groups of people like an experiment, but this design is used when it is not feasible or ethical to use random assignment |
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| The degree to which an independent variable can predict a dependent variable |
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| The degree to which the results from an experiment can be applied to the population and the real world |
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| When people agree with opposing statements |
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| The effects that might results when a group is born and raised in a particular time period |
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| When subjects act in ways they think the experimenter wants or expects |
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| When researchers see what they want to see (minimized in a double-blind) |
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| When subjects alter their behavior because they are being observed |
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| Nonequivalent control group |
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| This problematic type of control group is used when an equivalent one cannot be isolated |
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| An attitude change in response to feeling that options are limited; subjects reacting negatively by intentionally behaving unnaturally |
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| When the subjects that drop out of an experiment are different from those that remain; the remaining sample is no longer random |
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| When subjects do and say what they think puts them in a desireable light |
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| When a relationship is inferred when there actually is none |
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