MEASUREMENT AND METHOLOGY Flashcards
MEAUREMENT AND METHODOLOGY
- assessment behaviours, attitudesm mental constructs personality, and mental health
Intelligence
- mental construct specifically defined
- intelligence is NOT IQ
- IQ is score of inteligence
- unlikely that IQ captures all intelligence
Alfred Binet
- developed IQ and first IQ test (Binet Scale) = mental age/chronological age x 100
- Intelligence stops developing after age 16
Mean IQ of Americans
- is 100
- SD = 15 or 16
Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale
- revised version of Binet’s intelligence test
- best known predictor of future academic achievement
Lewis Terman
- from standford university and revised the Binet Intelligence Scale
- studies of children with higher IQ are better adjusted (gifted children)
Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
- most commin IQ test for dults
- organized by subtests
Wescler Intelligece Scale for Children (WAIS-R)
- for children age 6-16
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
- for children age 4-6
Goodenough Draw a Man Test
- notable for cros cultural application an simple directions to draw the very best picture
- are marked via detial and accuracy, not talent
IQ correlates mostly with who?
- biological parents and socioeconomic status of parents (income or job type)
John Horn and Cattell
- found fluid intelligence decines with old age and cyrstaliized intelignece does not
Robert Zajonc
- relationship between birth order and intelligence
- firstborns more intellignece than 2nd
- greater spaces between children = higher intelligence
Charles Spearman
- general factor in human intellignece called “g”
Achievement test
- measure how well you know a particular subject
- measure past learning
Aptitude test
- meaure your innate ability
- predict future perofmrance
Objective test
- subects can’t make own answers, are already structure
Structure test
- more objectively scored than projective tests
- most are self-reported (but still subject to response bias)
Q-sort, Q-measure techniques
- process of sorting cards into normal distrbution
- each card with a personality statmente and neutral ones and place at the hump and definind or undefining cards are put into the sides
Mineesota Multiphasic personality Inventory (MMPI)
- OG for mental illnes but now a peronality meaure
- T/F questions
- items to discriminate between different disorders
- high validity becau of items and 3 validity scales (lying, carelessness, faking)
California Personality Inventory (CPI)
- use for more “normal” and less clinical groups
Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- derived from Jung’s personality theory (archetypes)
- 2 answer per question then given 4 letter personality type
1) introvert/extravert
2) sensing/intuition
3) feeling/thinking
4) judgment/perception
Julain Rotter
- creater internal/external locus of control
Projective tests
- subjects to create own answer through expression of conflicts, need, impulses
- content is interpreted by administrators
- some may be score objectively