PSY210H5 Lecture 7: PSY210 Lecture 7 ( After Test 1)
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Psychometrics: psychometrician- designer of intelligence test (always guided by a particular theory of intelligence, test norms are the values or sets of values that describe the typical performance of a specific group of people. Individuals differences rather than commonalities on development: quantities rather than qualitative, concerned with products (iq scores) rather than the underlying processes, pragmatic rather than theoretical. Test validity and reliability: validity is the extent to which a test actually measures what it claims to measure, reliability is the degree to which a test yields consistent results over successive administrations. Iq scores form a variety of tests are now standardized to have a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of about 15. Intelligence test for children: test for children, standard binet intelligence test, wechsler intelligence test, kaufman assessment battery, stanford binet intelligence scale (age 2 to adulthood, wechsler intelligence test scale for children wisc-iii (6-16 years ; wppsi: 3-
