1_Intelligence and Psychological Testing

1_Intelligence and Psychological Testing

1. Key Concepts in Psychological Testing

   • Psychological Test: is a standardized measure of a sample of a persons behaviour
   • types of test
     • two broad catergoies:mental ability tests and personality tests
       • Mental Ability tests: Intelligence, Aptitude, Achievement
       • Personality tests or personality scales
   • Standardization and Norms
     • Standardization
       • Standardization refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test
     • Norms
       • Test norms provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test
   • Reliablitiy
     • refers to the measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques)
     • test retest reliability
       • correlation coefficient
   • Validity
     • refers to the ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure
     • Content Validity
     • Criterion Related Validity
     • Construct Validity

2. The Evolution of Intelligence Testing

   • Galton setting the stage
     • Alfred Binet
       • mental age
       • Terman
         • Standford Binet Intelligence Scale (IQ)
       • Wechsler
         • WAIS
         • Normal distribution

3. The Debate about the Structure of Intelligence

   • Spearman
     • "G"
   • Thurstone
     • 7 Independent Factors
   • Fluid Intelligence
   • Crystalized Intelligence

4. Basic Questions about Intelligence Testing

   • Normal Distribution
     • Deviation IQ Scores

5. Extremes of Intelligence

6. Hereditary and Environmental as Determinants of Intelligence

7. New Directions in the Assessment and study of Intelligence