Intelligence pt 2 Measurement

Question 1

Which psychometric IQ tests were based on ‘g’?

Answer 1

Weschler tests: WAIS and WISC
Stanford-Binet scale
Raven’s matrices

Question 2

Why were Weschler’s tests (1955)an improvement on previous intelligence tests?

Answer 2

Designed to be taken by people of different ages
Deviation IQ - score based relative to the average score of someone that age

Question 3

What is the Stanford-Binet 5 made up of?

Answer 3

Verbal IQ and non-verbal IQ combined to make full scale IQ

Question 4

What do Raven’s progressive matrices test?

Answer 4

Abstract ability (free of culture/language)
Non-verbal problems with abstract reasoning

Question 5

What do cognitive approaches to intelligence focus on?

Answer 5

Biological/physical processes
‘g’ is supported by multiple cognitive mechanisms: Working memory, processing speed & explicit associative learning

Question 6

What are elementary cognitive tasks?

Answer 6

Simple tasks that measure cognitive processes eg. Understanding and identifying a stimulus, Discrimination tasks, Visual Search tasks, Memory tasks

Question 7

What does Sattler (2002) say makes a good IQ test?

Answer 7

A variety of tasks, standardisation of administration, norm referencing