Chapter 8 Flashcards
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Main Uses of Individual Tests of Intelligence
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- Clinical, school, counseling
- Research
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Research Purposes
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- Study the nature of intelligence
- Use as a control/descriptor variable to explain differences in sample averages
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8 Characteristics of Individual Tests
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- Individual administration (one-on-one)
- Require advanced training (not easy)
- Wide range of abilities (only complete some such as age differences abilities)
- Need for establishing rapport (warm relationship)
- Most use a free response format
- Immediate scoring (reason for training)
- Administration time of about 60 minutes
- Opportunity for observation (qualitative, but useful for generating hypotheses)
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Francis Galton
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- Popularized intelligence testing
- Set up lab at London’s 1884 International Exposition
- Devised bivariate distribution to measure relationship between intelligence and social class
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Alfred Binet
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- Father of intelligence testing
- Emphasized individual performance on complex task for intelligence measurement
- Created a test in 1905 to measure intellectual development in children (mental age)
6
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Intelligence Quotient
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- Lewis Terman in 1916
- (Mental age / chronological age) x 100
7
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Army Alpha and Beta
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- Created by Arthur Otis due to WWI demands
- Alpha = verbal version for literate adults
- Beta = non-verbal version for illiterate adults or immigrants who did not speak english
8
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David Wechsler
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- Adult clinical psychologist working at NYC’s Bellevue Hospital
- Created W-Bellevue-IS in 1939 then revised to WAIS in 1955 (for ages 16:0-90:11)
- Also created WISC (for children 6:0-16:11)
- Also created WPPSI (ages 2:6-7:7)
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Standardized IQ Scores
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- Mean = 100
- SD = 15
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WAIS-IV Scoring
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- Administer 15 different subtests
- IQ determined through 7 verbal and 8 performance
- Yields 4 index scores (verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, processing speed)
- Mean = 10
- SD = 3
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WAIS-IV Norms
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- Separated by age group
- Standardization stratified by age, region, race, gender, and education level
- 13 age groups, about two per decade (ex: 20-24 and 25-29)
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WAIS-IV Psychometrics
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- Excellent internal consistency
- Very reliable
- Good to excellent test-retest
- Confirmatory factor analysis validity
- Contrasted groups show expected patterns
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Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
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- Short 10 to 15 minute test
- Measures vocabulary across lifespan regardless of age
- One type of item and one global score
- 228 multiple choice items
- Examiner reads a word and examinee selects from four pictures
- Steeply graded in difficulty ranging from preschool to advanced vocabulary up to 90 years old
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PPVT-4 Scores and Norms
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- Mean = 100
- SD = 15
- Scores rise steeply between ages 2 to 15
- Rise slowly at about 25
- Nearly flat through the adult years
- Vocabulary one of the most resistant to aging
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PPVT-4 Psychometrics
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- Reliability of test-retest
- Internal consistency
- Alternate forms good
- Validity shows strong correlations with lengthier, more complicated tests/measures of vocabulary
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Tests of Specific Mental Abilities
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- Mental ability that receives the most attention is memory
- Most widely used test for memory ability is the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS)
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WMS-IV Structure
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- Ages 16 to 90
- N = 1400
- Distinguishes between auditory vs. visual input and immediate vs. delayed recall
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WMS-IV Psychometrics
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- Convergent: correlates with other memory tests
- Discriminant: not simply a measure of ‘g’
- Factor Analysis: supports the index strcuture
- Group contrasts: sensitive to identification of groups that would be expected to have memory deficits
- Excellent internal consistency and test-retest reliability
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DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria
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- Asses both cognitive capacity and adaptive functioning
- Severity determined more by adaptive functioning
- IQ less than 70 constitutes sub-average intellectual functioning
- Deficits in adaptive functioning must be documented before age 18
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Vineland-3 (2016)
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- Most widely used measure of adaptive behavior
- Three main forms (comprehensive, full-length and abbreviated versions)
- Interview
- Parent/caregiver
- Teacher
- Composite score has M = 100 and SD = 15
- Various domain score has M = 15 and SD = 3
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Trends in Individually Administered Intelligence Tests
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- Use of hierarchical model
- Increased complexity in structure
- Provision of remedial materials
- Growing use of briefer tests
- Sophistication in norming
- Attention to test bias
- Increased frequency of test revision
