PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Lewis Terman, David Wechsler
11 Dec 2013
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Measure crystallized" intelligence or success in acquiring knowledge or skill in some domain. Tests what you were supposed to have learned already. Verbal reasoning: vocabulary, comprehension, absurdities, and verbal relations tests. Quantitative reasoning: quantitative, number series, and equation building tests. Measure fluid" intelligence or the ability to acquire knowledge or skills in the future. Tests your likelihood of learning new things in the future. Abstract/visual reasoning: pattern analysis, copying, matrices, and paper-folding/cutting tests. Measure people"s ability to do a range of tasks that seem to require intelligence. Get a score based on their performance and compare that score to everyone else. Called a standardized test because thousands of people have taken the test and we know the average score across thousands of people and we know how likely it is to get different scores on the test.
