Revision of terms Flashcards
What does Innate mean?
Is a behaviour, ability, characteristic present from birth not obtained through knowledg
What is Craniometry?
The study of people’s intellectual abilitys based on the shape and size of their head.
What is Neurology?
The science and study of the brain and nervous systems
What is confirmatory bias?
When a scientists expectations unconsiously influence the outcome of their research. E.g they are looking for specific features of a phenomenon that confirms their expectations.
Psychometrics
A field of study within psychology concerened with the psychological of measurements of personality traits, attitudes, mood or intelligence.
Personality
A person’s stable or enduring characteristics
Individual differences
Characteristics that are variable between individuals
BAttery of tests
A series of tests measuring the same thing
What is a Scale ?
A term which refers to a set of questions which combine to make a measurement of a bigger construct that cannot be measured directly.
*used instead of the word ‘test’ in intellligence research.
Test Norms
Are bench marks used to assess an persons performance in Intelligence test to compare with scores of other test takers from the population.
Test Standardisation
The process of establishing test norms via issuing test to a large sample of the target group (population)
Corellation
Two items (not neccesarily directly related to each other ) are are related if something changes in one the other one changes.
What does g symbolise
General intelligence
What does IQ stand for?
Intelligence Quotient.
What is normal distribution?
assumption that characteristics will have an average across a section of a population
E.G shoe size 9 in UK is average.
