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psychological assesment
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the use of specified testing procedures to evaluate the abilities, behaviors, and personal qualities of people
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Francis Galton
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Western intelligence
"Hereditray Genius"- testing methods |
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formal assesment
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classifying individuals assesment instrument:
1)reliable 2)valid 3)standardized |
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reliability
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an assesment instrument can be trusted to give consistent scores
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test-retest reliability
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a mesure of the correlation between the scores of the same people, on the same test, given on 2 diff. occasions
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parallel forms
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used instead of giving same test twice, reduces direct practice
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internal consistency
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consistency of responses on a test(both evens and odd #s same)
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split-half reliability
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both evens and odd #s same
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validity
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the degree to which the test measures what a person assesing would intend to measure
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face validity
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-based on surface content
-ask direct questions -ppl may not have accurate view of themselves |
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criterion validity
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(predictive validity)
compare persons score on a test with another score on a similar criterion ex: college asses. test w/college grades |
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norms
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typical scores of other people
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standarization
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administering a testing device to all people in the same way under the same conditions
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intelligence
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a general mental capability that allows: reasoning, plan solve probs, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and from experience
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Alfred Binet
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first real intelligence test used for children
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mental age
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ex: child scores 5, is said to have a mental age of 5 without regard to chronological age
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Lewis Terman
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adapted Binets questions for US school children- IQ
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intelligence quotient
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IQ
divide mental age by chronological age X 100 ex: an 8 yr. old child scores a 10 (10/8)x100 |
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David Wechsler
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Weschler-Bellevue intelligence scale - combined verbal and performance tests
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mental retardation
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ppl under 18 with IQ test of 70-75 or below
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psychometrics
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the field of psychology that specializes in mental testing
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charles spearman **
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factor analysis- G and S intelligence
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G intelligence
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general intelligence grows over later life- 2 factors: fluid & cystallized
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S intelligence
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specific intelligence
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fluid intell
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ability to learn
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cystallized intell
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what you already know
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Raymond Cattell ***
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cystallized and fluid intelligence
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Guilford
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structure of intellect model- content, product, operation
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Sternberg
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analytical, creative, practical
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Gardner
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identified 8 intelligences- intra/inter personal intell
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emotional intelligence
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4 major components
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Goddard ***
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selective exclusion of mentally defective immigrants
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heritability estimate
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based on variable test scores and how they are traced to genetics
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Steele
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steryotype vulnerability (threat)
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sterotype threat
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being at risk for confirming a bad sterotype of a person's group
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Stevenson
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mathematics in children
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creativity
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creating ideas that are NOVEL and APPROPRIATE to the circumstances in which they were created
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divergent thinking
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being able to come up with several unusual solutions to a problem
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Rothenberg
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don't have to suffer to understand suffering
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