Intelligence Tests

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Primary Mental Abilities Test (Thurstone)

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Consisted of separate tests, each designed to measure one PMA: verbal meaning, perceptual speed, reasoning, number facility, role memory, word fluency, and spatial relations

Question 2

Binet-Simon Scale (Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon)

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• World’s first formal test of intelligence (1965)

- to screen developmentally disabled children in Paris schools

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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (Terman)

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• First published intelligence test to provide organized and detailed administration and scoring instructions
• first American to employ concept of IQ and alternate item
• Has 2 equivalent forms L and M (1937)

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Revisions made in Stanford Binet- III 1960

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• consisted of only a single form (labeled L-M)

- used of the deviation IQ tables in place of the ratio IQ tables

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Ratio of testtaker’s mental age divided by his or her chronological age multiplied by 100

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Ratio IQ

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Comparison of the performance of the individual with the performance of others of the same age in the standardization sample

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Deviation IQ

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Stanford-Binet-IV revision

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• point scale

- based on Cattell-Horn model

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Stanford-Binet 5th revision

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• designed for administration to assess young as 2 to 85+ years of age
• based on CHC model
• reliability coefficient is high
• uses CAT

Question 9

A task used to direct or route the examinee to a particular level of questions

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Routing test

Question 10

Found in routing tests which are designed to illustrate the task required and assure the examiner that the examinee understands

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Teaching items

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Used to describe a subtest with reference to a specific test taker’’s performance

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Basal level (basehan if dapat pa ba mucontinue sa subtests)

Question 12

Wechsler tests

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• all are point scales (rather than age scale) that yield deviation IQs with a mean of 100 and a SD of 15
• testtaker’s performance is compared with scores earned by others in that age group

Question 13

Wechsler’s first effort to measure adult intelligence but was poorly standardized

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Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence (WBI)

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History of WAIS tests

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• WAIS-III was co normed with the WMS (Wechsler Memory Scale 3)
• The notion of WORKING MEMORY is one of the most important innovations on the WAIS-III
• organized into verbal and performance tests

Question 15

WAIS-IV revisions

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• made up of subtests that are designated either as a core or supplemental
• improvements in terms of floor and ceiling effect over predecessors
• 4 factors: Verbal comprehension, working memory, perceptual reasoning, processing speed

Question 16

A test score derived from the combination of a mathematical transformation of one or more subtest scores

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Test composite

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WISC-IV revisions

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• a Symbol Search subtest was introduced in the WISC-III, as a result of research of controlled attention and was thought to tap freedom from distractibility
• most noteworthy introduction is a noticeable warning to the CHC model –believed ‘g’ to be very much alive and well in the major instruments designed to measure intelligence
• does not yield separate verbal and performance IQ scores

Question 18

First major intelligence test that adequately sampled the total population of the US including racial minorities

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Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-III)
-extend range downward (2 yrs and 6 mons)

Question 19

A test that has been abbreviated in length to reduce the need for test administration, scoring and interpretation

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Short form
-Ex. Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of intelligence (short instrument to screen intellectual ability in testtakers from 6-89 yrs of age

Question 20

Individual intelligence tests

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Kaufman Assessment battery (luria)

Goodenough-harris scoring system (paper and pencil rendering a human figure and other drawings)

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Group intelligence tests

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Army alpha and beta

school ability tests

Question 22

An instrument or procedure used to identify a particular trait or constellation of traits at a gross or imprecise level

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Screening tool

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Individual assessment simultaneously administered in a group

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testakers seated at a computer station

Question 24

Rarely tapped in intelligence tests

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Measure of creativity

-4 measures: originality, elaboration, fluency, flexibility

Question 25

Accdg. to Guilford, tasks designed to measure creativity are __ and __

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consequences and unusual cues