Assessment and Testing

Question 1

Difficulty Index

Answer 1

% of people who answered correctly

Question 2

Normative Test Format

Answer 2

each item is independent of all other items

Question 3

Ipsative Measures

Answer 3

compares traits within the same individual

Question 4

Spiral Test

Answer 4

Questions get progressively harder

Question 5

Cyclical Test

Answer 5

several section that are spiral in nature

Question 6

Francis Galton

Answer 6

concluded intelligence was primarily genetic and normally distributed, and a unitary faculty/factor

Question 7

J.P. Guilford

Answer 7

isolate 120 factors which add up to intelligence, remembered for convergent and divergent thinking
convergent - when divergent thoughts and ideas are combined into a singular concept
divergent - ability to generate a novel idea

Question 8

Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon

Answer 8

Created the first intelligence test in 1905. Stressed age related tasks and was created to discriminate children with and without an intellectual disability. Now (Stanford-Binet) uses a SAS (standard age score)

Question 9

Deviation IQ

Answer 9

MA/CA x 100