PSYC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Mental age-level of performance typically associated with a certain chronological age (9-year-old with mental age of 9) Stanford-binet-widely used american revision of binet"s original intelligence test. Intelligence quoient (iq)-originally was a person"s (mental age/chronological age x100) Achievement tests-tests intended to relect what you learned. Apitude tests-tests intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill/capacity to learn. Wechsler adult intelligence scale (wais)-most widely used intelligence test (verbal & performance subtests) Standardizaion-deining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a a pretested group. Normal curve-curve on graph related to spread of diferent scores of a tested group (low/average/high) Reliability-the extent to which a test yields consistent scores. Validity- extent to which the test actually measures or predicts what it samples promises. Content validity-the extent to which the test samples the behavior that is of interest (criterion) Predicive validity-predict the criterion of future performance (oten to some extent, they do)
