Intelligence And Testing Pt. 1 Measuring "intelligence" Flashcards
Intelligence tests
Tests for assessing a person’s mental abilities and comparing them with the abilities of other people, by means of numerical scores
Alfred Binet
A french psychologist, is most often considered to be the pioneer of the intelligence testing movements
pioneer of the intelligence testing movements
Alfred Binet
What was Binet’s purpose for developing his tests?
Indenting French school children who had special needs
Binet looked to identify a child’s
Mental age
Mental age
Chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
A child who does as well as the average 8 year old is said to have a mental age of
8
Binet did not believe his test measured
Inborn intelligence
Lewis Terman
An American psychologist at Stanford, adapted Binet’s test in an attempt to measure what he thought was inherited intelligence
Stanford Binet
Refers to the widely used revision of Binet’s original intelligence test
Lewis Terman represents
The dangers of testing
Intelligence Quotient aka
IQ
IQ
Defined originally the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100
IQ equation
IQ= ma/ca*100
IQ: on contemporary tests it is the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of
100
IQ tests are not valid for
People who get older
Intelligence is often defined as
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence is not a “thing” it is an abstract concept, on IQ it is simply a
Score on intelligence
To measure general ability within specific mental abilities a statistical method is used called
Factor analysis
Factor analysis is used to identify
Clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to indenting different dimensions of performance that underlie one’s total.
Factor analysis example
People who do well on vocabulary items also usually do well on paragraph comprehension.. which are both related to the verbal intelligence factor
General intelligence (g)
Spearman’s belief that there was a factor that underlined specific mental abilities and was therefore measured by every talk on an intelligence test
Specific intelligences tended to be_________ correlated
Positively
Specific intelligences tended to be positively correlated example
People with highest math scores also scored above average on other factors
