Module 14: Issues in Intelligence Testing

Question 1

Flynn Effect

Answer 1

+ progressive rise in intelligence score that is expected to occur on a normed intelligence test from the date when the test was first normed
+ Gradual increase in the general intelligence among newborns

Question 2

Frog Pond Effect

Flynn Effect

Answer 2

theory that individuals evaluate themselves as worse when in a group of high-performing individuals

Question 3

Culture Bias of Testing Concepts

Answer 3

1. Bias In Testing
2. Culture-Free
3. Culture Fair
4. Culture Loading

Question 4

Bias In Testing

Answer 4

presence of systematic error in
the measurement of certain factors

Question 5

Culture-Free

Answer 5

attempt to eliminate culture so nature can be isolated

Question 6

Is having a culture-free test possible?

Answer 6

No, it is impossible to develop bec culture is evident in its binfluence since birth or an individual and the interaction between nature and nurture is cumulative and not relative

Question 7

Culture Fair

Answer 7

+ minimize the influence of culture with regard to various aspects of the evaluation procedures
+ Fair to all, fair to some cultures, fair only to one culture

Question 8

Culture Loading

Answer 8

the extent to which a test incorporates the vocabulary concepts traditions, knowledge etc. with particular culture

Question 9

Types of Test Equivalence

Answer 9

1. Linguistic
2. Conceptual
3. Metric

Question 10

Linguistic

Answer 10

+ wording and content
+ whether the test has been translated accurately

Question 11

Back-Translation

Linguistic Test Equivalence

Answer 11

once translated to a certain language, it is translated back to the original language

Question 12

Conceptual

Answer 12

+ construct has the same meaning
+ requires constructs to have the same meaning in various cultures

Question 13

Metric

Answer 13

same psychometric feature across different groups/culture