Wechsler IQ test
meant to test verbal comprehension, reasoning, working memory and processing speed.
-measures general intelligence using 2 broad factors:
verbal & performance skills
- separate test for preschoolers and school age children
- 3 versions
lesion
region of damaged tissue
spatial ability
ability to generate retina, retrieve and transform well structured visual images
WAIS
spatial ability diffs:
emerge at 8 years and are consistent by 12-13 years of age
* metal rotations show considerable male-female difference
WISC
-(Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) is an IQ test administered to
- children between ages 6 and 16 by school districts and psychologists
- The objective of the exam is to understand whether or not a child is gifted, as well as to determine the student’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
WPPSI
-Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
- is an intelligence test
- children ages 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months
- developed by David Wechsler in 1967
-it is a descendant of the earlier Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children tests.
tacit knowledge
knowledge that is difficult to express or extract, and thus more difficult to transfer to others by means of writing it down or verbalizing it
- things you ned to know but are’t tough or “street smarts”
Sternberg
Galton
Cattell
Spearman
Binet
Simon
judgement and reasoning
Simplex
if two test given close in time the correction is higher than when they are given father in time
”s”
specific factor, unique to given test
“g’
shared factor
strand deviation of IQ
15
Variance of IQ
225
Selective placement
trying to place children with families who are similar in a many ways as possible to the natural parents
virtual twins
same age
- unrelated children raised together
- no genetic link
ex. adopted - adopted
ex. adopted - biological child
full adoption design
partial adoption design
biological parents - biological kids
adoption parents - adoption kids
adoption designs
gardner
multiple intelligence
- said Sternbergs model is not rooted in the brain