Chapter 7

Question 1

Why was the first intelligence test made?

Answer 1

to identify who needed educational help

Question 2

What did Binet’s test focus on?

Answer 2

ability related to academic tasks

Question 3

How did Wechsler define intelligence?

Answer 3

a person’s global capacity to act purposefully, think in a rational manner, and to deal effectively with the environment

Question 4

A theory involving tow or more factors that are considered at equal importance in the structural level

Answer 4

factor model

Question 5

a theory baes in the assumption that constructs have higher and lower values

Answer 5

hierarcha modules

Question 6

A theory that focuses more on how the constructs are processed and handled by the brain

Answer 6

information processing model

Question 7

A factor model that proposed that all intellectual activities are achieved due to a common intelligence factor called g

Answer 7

Spearman’s general factor

Question 8

Who proposed that there is a group of factors of primary mental abilities that are required for intelligence

Answer 8

thurstone

Question 9

Who created a hiearchical model that proposes that there are main factors that are comprised of sub factors

Answer 9

Raymond Cattell

Question 10

The ability to solve problems without having previous experience or using formal learning

Answer 10

fluid intelligence

Question 11

Using what we have learned to solve problems

Answer 11

crystallized intelligence

Question 12

An information processing theory where g is seen as the dominant element of intelligence with three interrelated elements that allow g to be used

Answer 12

Spearman’s triarchic theory

Question 13

What are the 3 elements of SPearman’s triarchic theory?

Answer 13

componential, experimental, contextual

Question 14

There are multiple forms of intelligence that all ask how are you intelligent?

Answer 14

Theory of Multiple intelligences

Question 15

What information processing model was used to make the school curriculum?

Answer 15

Garner’s theory of multiple intelligences

Question 16

Intellectual functioning prior to an accaident or the onset of neurological decline

Answer 16

premorbid IQ

Question 17

How is intelligence assessed?

Answer 17

through an intelligence scale, self-monitoring data, and interviews with relevant others

Question 18

What is required for a diagnosis of an intellectual disability

Answer 18

IQ in the lowest 2%, impairments in self-care, social skills, home living, and work, and substancial difference between intelligence expectated at the developmental stage

Question 19

The Wechsler to assess individuals from 16 to 60

Answer 19

WAIS-IV

Question 20

Wechsler intelligence scale designed for children and adolescents 6 to 16 years

Answer 20

WISC-V

Question 21

Wechsler intelligence scale for preschool from 2 years 6 months to 7 years old

Answer 21

WPPSI-IV

Question 22

Four reasons why the Wechsler is the gold standard

Answer 22

1. most commonly taught
2. testing across the age range
3. multiple versions specifically for Canada
4. Draw on contemporary research

Question 23

What did the early versions of the Wechslers provide scores for?

Answer 23

verbal, non-verbal (performance), and the sum of the whole performance called full scale IQ

Question 24

What does the modern Wechsler provide scores for?

Answer 24

verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed

Question 25

Why is it important for the Wechsler to be country specific?

Answer 25

Every country has different characteristics that might change the normative sample that the “average” is taken from

Question 26

the extent to which a sample reflects the characteristics of the population from which it is drawn

Answer 26

representativeness

Question 27

What is one main problem of the Wechsler?

Answer 27

it only examine academic intelligence ability

Question 28

How is the Wechsler administered?

Answer 28

Administered in an interview setting with a psychologist and client going over the questions together

Question 29

Why is it important for the administering of the Wechsler to be the same every time?

Answer 29

so the test scores are meaningful and can be interpreted the same as all the others

Question 30

How is answers from the Wechsler interpreted?

Answer 30

An answer is scored based on a manual of standardized answers and scores associated with the comprehension level of the answer

Question 31

What is the general strategy for scoring?

Answer 31

move from the general implications of the answer to the specific

Question 32

How was the Canadian version of the Wechsler made?

Answer 32

1. compare canada normative date to American group
2. map the distribution
3. mark into standard scores

Question 33

What is different in the WAIS-IV?

Answer 33

1. age range extended
2. index scores replaced the verbal and performance quotients
3. French-Canadian version

Question 34

What scales does the WAIS-IV include?

Answer 34

Verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning , working memory and processing speed

Question 35

What is different about the WISC-V?

Answer 35

1. enhancing ability to detect learning disorders
2. more subtests related to clinical concerns
3. Simplified the questions
4. more engaging for children

Question 36

What does the WISC-V include?

Answer 36

verbal comprehension, visual-spacial, fluid reasoning, working memory, and processing speed

Question 37

An intelligence test that focuses on how children and adults learn

Answer 37

Kaufman Adolescent and Ault intelligence test

Question 38

A scale that estimates memory related abilities like semantic and episodic memory

Answer 38

Wechsler Memory scale