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Principles of Tests & Measures - Test#3
Bryce McLeod - VCU - Fall 2011
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
10/13/2011

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Intelligence testing
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type of aptitude test that measures a range of intellectual ability
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According to Alfred Binet intelliggence can be observed through...
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judgment, attention, and reasoning.
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Charles Spearman came up with what..
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"g" or general mental ability
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General Mental Ability (Spearman) seperated intelligence into 3 things..
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vocabulary, reasoning, mechanical skill and that they are all significantly correlated
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First IQ tests thought that...
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you could measure intelligence with only one test/score
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Fluid intelligence (gf)
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information/knowledge we're born with
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Crystallized intelligence (gc)
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effected by our learning, experience, etc.; what we learn in life
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As you get older, _______ intelligence goes down while _______ goes up.
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fluid; crystallized
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Whose the biggest intelligence guy?
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Howard Gardner
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Most prominent intelligence test:
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Stanford-Binet first then Wechsler Scales of Intelligence
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Binet has 2 principles:
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age differentiation and general mental ability
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age group level of performance determines a child's ...
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mental age (if an 8 year can do 10 year old stuff then their mental age is 10)
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Binet's General Mental Ability ("g")
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correlated scores of each task subtype with overall score
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IQ formula
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mental age/chronological age X's 100
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Deviation IQ
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IQ deteremined by how far above/below a score if from the mean of a particular age
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An intelligence test should be able to differentiate b/w age related capabilities
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age differentiation (Binet's first principle)
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Binet's second principle... intelligence test should provide a total intelligence score by summing results of all parts.
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General Mental Ability
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An old concept though that we no longer depend on is the...
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General Mental Ability (we take more than one score and still like the GMA score but we don't depend on it)
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WAIS III - 1997
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WAIS IV - 2008
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Wechsler believed intelligence was more than ________ ________ unlike Binet.
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verbal ability
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Wechsler's definition of IQ
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intelligence is the global capacity of individual to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with their environment
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Big difference in Wechsler and Binet:
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Wechsler factored in personality whereas Binet DID NOT.
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Wechsler did not believe that Stanford-Binet applied to whom?
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Adults because intellectual performance could deteriorate with age.
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Wechsler's biggest contribution:
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Point Scale Concept & Performance Scale Concept
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Point scale concept
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points assigned to each individual item (able to group similar items together) and therefore give one score for things such as vocabulary, math, memory, etc.
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Wechsler also introduced..
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the Performance Scale concept - equal weight to non-verbal and verbal intelligence
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Binet started with ___ but Wechsler started with ____.
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kids; adults
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Which is used more often now?
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Wechsler tests more than Stanford Binet
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Most common test used in assessing clients for therapy is...
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the clinical interview
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Clinical setting assessments can be used for...
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assist in job placement/treatment planning, diagnosis formulation, assist in court decisions, provide client better insight
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Structured personality testing
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true/false or multiple choice paper/pencil assessment to identify consistent traits, values, etc.
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States
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emotional reactions that vary from situation to situation
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Self concept
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how someone views themselves
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Approached to creating structured personality tests..
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deductive & empirical
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Type of approach to a structure personality test: deductive
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reason, logical-content and theory
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Type of approach to structured personality tests: empirical
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data, stats, criterion-group and factor analysis
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Woodworth Personal Data Sheet
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first personality test developed during WWI (116 Q's, yes/no, singe score)
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