Unit 1 Flashcards
Grad Record Exam (GRE)
Administered by ETS (Educational Testing Service), decides future school/career advancements
-Verbal reasoning, quantitative reading, analytical writing
Issue: What is a norm/comparison?
-Does accurately rep?
-Consistent/reliable? Valid?
Places making decisions based on Assessments
-Hospitals make diagnostics, treatment, and triage
-Schools assess Cog, higher education placement, emotion, & bhvr
-College/U decide admissions, scholarships, & licensing’s
-Jobs decide Hiring, placement, and promotion
-Neuropsych: Diagnosis, treatment, prognosis
-FP: Trials, custody, ect
Chinese Civil Service Exams
The first series of psych. ass. of 3 exams, testing diverse topics, that were physically grueling, exhausting, & stressful
Physiognomy, phrenology, and psych. graphing
Judging INS (inside) w/ outside features/shape of head
-Bigger/smaller area phy. relfects INC/DEC INT there
German Psych
Memory drum test, testing visual & verbal perceptions
Conrad Reiger
Developed battery tests (100+), ass. cog. abilities after a TBI
Brass Instruments Era
1800s role of psych noticed
-Sensory threshold & reaction time measured
-“AVG” brain interest
-Wilhelm Wundt
The Father of Eugenics
S. Francis Galton AKA Father of Health Testing
-Set up human measurement lab
-Individual differences and INT measurement
-Corr. techniques for data analysis
-Author of Hereditary Genius, promotion of eugenics
Brass Instrument Tech
Imported to America by Cattell
-Studied by Wundt & Galton
-Coined term “Mental test”
Est. of psych corp, promotion, and testing
Rating Scales
Quantify subjective psy. Vs
-Christian Thomasius made first PER. scale
Switching to higher mental proscesses
-Binet coins the term “higher mental processes”
-Belief that INTs and memory could be enhanced/higher
-“Non-INT” factors (Attention, motivation, ect) affect INT performance
-Binet helped ID those needing special/different educations
Binet-Simon Scale
30-item scale testing child-mental DEV
-Short test ~1hr
-Items arranged by difficulty
-Didn’t like IQ, believing INT can’t be measured/not fixed
-“mental age” introduced
-Revisions introducing teenagers, then eventually adulthood
IQ (INT Quotient)
Mental age VS actual ratio
-Was 5-10 VS 30-35 OR 2-4 VS 10-12
-Now Mental age / # age X 100 (to make easier to understand)
Binet-Simon Scale CONT
(Lewis Terman) Stanford U changes Q RNG, testing “Low” or “Superior” INT
-Yields IQ
-LT wanted to test people to better place them in careers
Early use & Abuse of tests in US
-Vineland training school in NJ
-Binet-S scale translated to use on immigrants, still reflecting US culture only
-“Feeble minded” (deemed at 8-12) thought to need to be contaminated to stop spreading
Ellis Island
Goddard tasked to screen 12M immigrants
-“Feeble minded” thought to be the cause of crimes, ect
-Test was janky and conditions were harsh
-Reports of “FM” inferiority, later recanted
Army Alpha Assess. VS Army Beta Assess
Alpha: 8 verbally loaded tests to screen AVG-HIGH INT
Beta: 8 parallell non-verbal tasks to test those illiterate, and non-native-Engl speaking
-Both had poor/janky testing conditions, instructions
-Brigham wrote Study of American Intelligence, comparing to non-Americans, causing racial prejudices and belief that they were inferior
Immigration Restriction Act
Sterilization of the “FM”
- Brigham eventually recants statement, admiting that cultural, language, & educational differences were the cause of “FM”, not genetic inferiority
National INT Test
1920s, given to children, establishing the College Entrance Exam Board (CEEB) to screen students
-CEEB replaced by Educational Testing Service (ETS), developing GRE & SAT
Interest Inventories
Measures for guidance counseling and career interest
-Carnegie Interest Inventory, Kudar preference Record
Personal Data sheet
Woodworth data sheet used to study army recruits