PSY 2105 Lecture Notes - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, David Wechsler, Lewis Terman
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The psychometric approach: it focuses on the use of standardized tests to identify individual differences among people. Iq tests are pragmatically oriented to determine the type of education a student should receive/ iq tests yield ordered differences among people resulting in an evaluative dimension in which person a is more or less intelligent than person b. He also added to the mental age the iq, iq divided by chronological age x 100: the wechsler scale: developed by david wechsler, has some similarities like the. Has two test designs 1) the (wisc-iv): 6-16 and the second one (wppsi-ii) which is intended for ages from 2 to 7 years. It includes 4 scales of: verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory and processing speed. It yields an overall iq and a separate score: k-abc: marks an explicit effort to minimize cultural content in the construction of the test, say that it discriminates against children from poor or minorities family.
