30 Assessing Intelligence Flashcards
The widely used American revision of Alfred Binet’s original intelligence test was developed by:
Lewis Terman
A 9-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency of an average 12-year-old was said to have an IQ of
133
A test designed to assess whether newly graduated medical students should be granted the legal right to practice medicine would most likely be considered a(n) ________ test.
achievement
Before publishing her test of musical aptitude, Professor Reed first administered the test to a representative sample of people. This was most clearly necessary for test
standardization
When retested on the WAIS, people’s second scores generally match their first scores quite closely. This indicates that the test has a high degree of
reliability
If course exams assess a student’s mastery of a representative sample of course material, they are said to
have content validity
Comparing the intelligence test scores among people from distinctly different age cohorts requires
cross-sectional studies
The first modern test of intelligence was developed in
France
A 6-year-old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9-year-old was said to have a mental age of
9
A high school counselor gave Amy a test designed to predict whether she could learn to become a successful architect. Amy most likely took a(n) ________ test.
aptitude
A score on the WAIS that is higher than all but 2 percent of all scores earns an intelligence score of
130
Some hereditarians have been fearful that higher twentieth-century birth rates among those with lower intelligence scores would shove average intelligence scores progressively downward. This fear has been most directly alleviated by the discovery of
the Flynn effect
Mary’s bathroom scale always overstates people’s actual weight by exactly six pounds. The scale has ________ reliability and ________ validity.
high; low
University grades are used to assess the ________ of the SAT.
predictive validity
