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What is standardization?

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The uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test

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What is Flynn effect?

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People are getting smarter

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What is reliability?

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Consistency

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What is Validity?

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The extent to which a test measures what it supposed to measure

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What is content validity

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The degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it’s supposed to cover

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What is predictive validity?

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Practice how you play

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What is the aptitude test?

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It measures potential so like an SAT

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What is an achievement test

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It measures knowledge so like an AP test

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What is your mental age and who is known for it?

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What a person should know to particular age

Alvin and the chipmunks
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon

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10
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Who created the IQ test?

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Terman and used Beneze research to construct a modern-day IQ test called the Stanford Benet test

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What is the IQ formula?

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Mental age divided by chronological age times 100

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What is Wechsler’s adult intelligence scale?

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It consists of 11 subtests and is used to give it strength by using factor analysis

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What is the IQ of someone mild retardation?

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51 to 70

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What is the Mental age of someone mild retardation?

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8- 12 years

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What is the IQ of someone moderate retardation?

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36-50

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What is the mental age of someone moderate retardation?

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4-7 years old

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What is the IQ of someone severe retardation?

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20-35

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What is the IQ of someone profound retardation?

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19 and below

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What is the mental age of someone profound retardation?

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2 years old and younger

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20
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What percent of the mentally retarded population is considered profound?

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1%

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What was determined study of gifted children?

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There better than average physical health, emotionally stable, and social suspect throughout the adult life in success of gifted is all related to determination and motivation

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What is fluid intelligence?

cattle and horn

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Reasoning quickly, abstract, declines in adulthood – independent of education

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What is crystallized intelligence? ( cattle and horn )

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Knowledge and skills over lifetime, it increases with age – learning logic stills and cognitive skills

24
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What is Charles Spearman’s G factor?

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Used affect her nails is and discovered that what we see as many different skills is actually one general intelligence

If you’re good at one subject, you’re good at many

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What is Howard Gardners multiple intelligence concept?

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Seven types of intelligence: 
Linguistic
Logical – mathematical
Spatial
Musical
Body – kinesthetic
 Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Naturalist
26
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What is intelligence quotient?

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A child’s mental age divided by chronic logical age multiplied by 100 – computing the IQ

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What does a percentile score mean?

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It indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained

28
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What is test norms?

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Tells where test scores rank in relations to other scores on the test, and allows you to convert your score into a percentile score

29
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What is heritability ratio?

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Statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait that is attributable to genetic differences among individuals within a group

30
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What is Sternberg’s triarchic theory?

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Three types of intelligence: analytical, creative, practical

31
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What intelligence theory is the most commonly accepted today?

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Robert sternbergs triarchic theory

32
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Who is Francis Galton?

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Cousin of Charles Darwin

Success runs in families because of intelligence being passed from generation to generation

Created nature versus nurture

Created the bell curve in psychology, correlation, and percentile scoring

33
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What is Spearman’s view of the intelligence?

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That has to factory gnosis, and if a number variables correlate highly with one another the assumption is that there’s one main factor

34
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What is the cognitive theory of intelligence?

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Information processing studies that under on intelligence – Robert Sternberg

Triarchicary theory

35
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What is standard deviation

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Deviation IQ scores that locates subjects precisely within the normal distribution

36
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What are deviation IQ scores?

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Scores that locate subjects precisely within normal distribution, using standard deviation as the unit of measurement

37
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What is a savant?

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People who struggle socially and are. Really smart and some subjects

Disapproves spearman

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What is construct validity?

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The extent to which there is evidence that a test measures a particular hypothetical construct

39
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What is convergent thinking?

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Narrowing down a list of alternatives to converge on a single correct answer

40
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What is correlation coefficient?

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A numerical index of the degree of relationship between to variables

41
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What is creativity?

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The generation of ideas that are original, novel and useful

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What is criterion-related validity?

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Test validity that is estimated by correlating subjects’ scores on a test with their scores in an independent criterion (another measure) of that trait assessed by the test

43
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What is divergent thinking?

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Trying to expand the range of alternatives by generating many possible solutions

44
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What is factor analysis?

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Method that uses the correlation among many variables to identify closely related clusters

45
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What is mental retardation?

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Subnormal general mental ability accompanied by deficiencies in everyday living skills originating prior to age 18

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What is normal distribution?

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A symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are diapered in the population

47
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What does a personality test measure?

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Motives, interests, values and attitude

48
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What do psychological test measure?

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Persons behavior

49
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What is reaction range?

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Genetically determined limits on IQ or other traits

50
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What is reification?

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Giving an abstract concept a name and then treating it as though it were a concrete, tangible object

51
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What is the mental age of someone severe retardation?

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2-4 years old

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