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Mod 38 Flashcards

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What are intelligence tests?

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they asses a persons mental aptitudes and compares them with others

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What are achievement tests?

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Tests that asses what is learned

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What are aptitude tests?

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Test that predict your ability to learn a new skill

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Who is Francis Galton?

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The founder of the IQ test but his research wasn’t great

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What did Alfred Binet do?

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He made fair tests for French kids since they were all required to go to school.

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What does mental age mean?

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the level of performance associated with children of a certain age

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What did Lewis Terman do?

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He created the stanford-binet test, which is the Americanized version of Binets academic tests.

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What did IQ mean?

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mental age/chronological age x 100 = __

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What is the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale?

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highly reliable, individually administered IQ test for adults (typically 16+) measuring cognitive abilities

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What are the 3 principles of Test Construction?

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1) Standardized
2) Reliability
3) Validity

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What does standardized mean?

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It means to compare scores of a performed group

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What is the bell shaped curve?

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68% of people lie +/- 15 pts within the range
95% of people lie +/- 30 pts within the range
less than 2% lie within the rest

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What does Reliability mean?

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Consistent scores by lots of testing

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What is validity?

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Extent to which a test measures what its supposed to

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What is Predictive validity?

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refers to the ability of a test or other measurement method to predict a future outcome.
(p.s. larger samples = larger predictive validity)

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What is Content validity?

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evaluates how well a test covers all relevant parts of the topic, construct, or behavior it aims to measure.

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What is the Flynn effect?

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the observed, long-term rise in standardized IQ scores across generations

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