PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Types of psychological tests and establishing test norms. Psychological tests: standardized measures of a sample of a person"s behavior, used to establish individual differences. Aptitude tests: assess intellectual potential in specific domains. Achievement test: assess previous learning, mastery or knowledge of specific subjects: tests in class. Personality tests: measure motives, interests, values, and attitudes. Standardization: consistent procedures during admin & scoring of tests: test norms: developing info on where one"s score ranks in relation to similar others (e. g. convert raw score to percentile score) Argued iq tests focused too much on verbal and mathematical skills: proposed 8 different types of intelligences. Fluid: reasoning ability, memory, processing speed: more strongly correlated with general intelligences but declines with age. Crystallized: ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills to solve problems. Stanford-binet iq test and calculation of iq scores for children and adults. Terman-- expanded on binet"s test, led to stanford-binet intelligence scale.
