PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Content Validity, Mental Age, Psychological Testing
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Measures of mental ability or aspects of personality. Degree to which there is evidence that a test measures what it was designed. Content validity is important for classroom tests. Intelligence is inherited was shown by sir francis galton, who made devise. Modern intelligence testing was made according to the work of alfred. Binet (created scale to measure child"s mental age) Aptitude tests: assess specific types of mental abilities. Modern scoring system: iq scores determine where people fall in the normal distribution of intelligence for their age group. Iq tests= reliable valid measures of academic excellence. Iq tests= correlation w/ subject of debate. Iq tests are not used in most non-western cultures. 70-75 and below is considered a diagnostic of intellectual disability. Disabled intellectuality population falls under mild category. Biological causes have only been found in 25 percent cases. 130 and above= gifted ( depends on intensive training and hard work, but innate talent can be a contribution.
