PSYC 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Verbal Reasoning, Intelligence Quotient, Stereotype Threat
18 Jan 2018
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Personality tests: measures aspects of personality: motives, interests, values, no right wrong answer. Intelligence test: general potential: aptitude test: potential in certain areas, verbal reasoning, numerical ability, achievement test: knowledge, math test. Identifying intellectual disabilities: assessment of brain injury, special placements in school, worker compensations, us military, career assessment, research studies. Pros of iq tests: reliable and valid, good predictor of school success and high status jobs cu, at age 7-10, iq stabilizes. Problems with iq tests: women and poc score lower, unequal access and inequality in education, stereotype threat, fear of being judging by a negative stereotype interferes with cognitive ability. Looping effect: people classified in a certain way tend to conform to or grow in the ways they are described, culture specific questions, also intelligence means difference things in different cultures. People of intelligence testing: galton, emphasised nature over nurture, tested for sensations to predict success, ex.
