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Intelligence Pt. 2: Assessment, Reliability, And Validity Flashcards

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To be accepted all psychological tests must be

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Standardized
Reliable
Valid

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Standardization

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2 part test development that first establishes TEST NORMS by testing a representative sample of individuals who initially took the test, then assures the test is administered and scored correctly for all administrators

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For standardization, your scores are compared with the

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Pretested group scores (norms) who took the test

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Standardized tests usually follow a __________ distribution

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Normal

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Standardized tests usually follow a ________ or _______ _______ ________ where most scores occur in the _____

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Follow a normal or bell curve distribution

Scores occur in the middle

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Both variance and standard deviation are measures which tell us how

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Scores differ from one another or how spread out the distribution is

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Variance is reported in

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Squared units

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To get the standard deviation which will be regular units you just

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Take the square root of the variance

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Standard deviation=

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Square root of the variance

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Reliability deals with

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Consistency

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Reliability’s question to ask

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Do I always get SIMILAR results each time the test is administered?

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Reliability example: would basing intelligence on a man’s pubic hair color be a reliable measure?

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Yes b/c it is consistent, you will get the same results every time you measure his hair

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Reliability word

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Consistency

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Ways to check reliability: test/retest

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Same test is administered to the same group on 2 different occasions and compared

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Ways to check reliability: split half

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Score on one half of test questions is correlated with the score on the other half to see if they are consistent

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Split half is

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Internal reliability

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Ways to check reliability: alternate form (equivalent form)

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2 different versions of a test on the same material are given to the same test takers, and the scores are correlated to see if results are consistent

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Validity

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Deals with accuracy or predictability

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Validity question to ask

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Does the test measure what is supposed to be measured?

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Validity example: Would using a scale that assessed athletic ability by measuring fingernail length be a valid measure?

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No

Also not reliable

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Content/face validity

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Measure of the extent to which the content of the test measures all of the knowledge or skills that are supposed to be included within the domain being tested

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Content/ face validity example

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If 45% of the chapter 11 AP Psych Exam asks you to solve calculus problems it lacks content or face validity

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Predictive validity

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The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is supposed to predict

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Predictive validity example

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Does high GPA correlate with high college grades? Yes

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Construct validity

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Whether or not a scale measures the theorized concept (or construct) it is supposed to

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CONSTRUCT validity word

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Abstract: cant touch

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Constructive validity is like the _______ validity

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Philosophical

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If an IQ test has construct validity,

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It would mean the questions on it truly dal with all the components that make a person intelligent (intelligence would be the construct)

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Criterion

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The behavior that a test is supposed to predict

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Criterion is used to see if

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Test is successful

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What would the criterion be for the ACTs?

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How well you’ll do in college

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What would the criterion be for the NFL combine drills?

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How well you’ll do in the NFL game

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The Flynn Effect

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Since the advent of intelligence tests, people’s IQ scores have been improving with time

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If standardized with today’s tests, scores 80 years ago would have an average IQ of 76.

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The Flynn Effect

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Possible causes of the Flynn effect

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Nurture- better schools, technology, expectations

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Mental retardation

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Condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score below 70 AND difficulty adapting to the demands of life

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Mental retardation aka

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Intellectual disability

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Down syndrome: Condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by

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an extra chromosome in one’s genetic makeup

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Many mentally rehearsed people with Down Syndrome can adapt to disorder and

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Some have earned college degrees with accommodations… nearly all learn how to read

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Degrees of mental retardation scores

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Mild- 50-70
Moderate- 35-49
Severe- 20-34

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Creativity

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Ability to produce novel and valuable ideas

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Components of creativity (5)

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Expertise 
Imaginative thinking skills 
Venturesome personality 
Intrinsic motivation 
Creative environment
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Is intelligence genetic or environmental?

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Influenced by both, but most genetically similar have the most similar scores

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With age, genetic influences become more

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Apparent

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Adopted children’s intelligence becomes more like

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Their biological parents and identical twins similarities continue to increase as they age

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Still hard to tell what percentage of intelligence comes from genres to account for differences between people

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Heritability

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Stereotype threat

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Refers to the experience of anxiety in a situation where a person has the potential to confirm a negative stereotype about their group

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Because of the stereotype that women can’t do math as well as men, men outperformed EQUALLY CAPABLE women on a difficult math test

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Stereotype threat

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Stereotype threat: The gap between scores disappear when women are

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Led to expect ant women usually do as well as men

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Group differences in intelligence scores are probably mostly attributed to the

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Environment

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Percentiles

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Percentage of individuals you score same/better on the test

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WAIS is

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Standard deviation

53
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To determine what % of individuals score between IQ,

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Subtract the corresponding percentiles

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The percentiles

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0.1, 2, 16, 50, 84, 98, 99.9

55
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Percentiles make the curve ______ because

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Normal because they are always the same

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