PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Intelligence Quotient, Test Validity, Intellectual Disability
27 Oct 2016
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Estimating someone"s intelligence level can be very dif cult. We can"t always assume someone"s intelligence from their behavior. Some people demonstrate intelligent behaviors in one area but then lack them completely in other areas. Intelligence tests are a measure of your ability to succeed academically. Achievement tests: designed to measure how much information a person has learned about a topic. Goal of their research was to target mentally retarded children in the french school system. One of the most in uential iq tests today is a direct result of binet & simon"s work. Intelligence scores of children weren"t recorded directly but instead put into a quotient. 100 is still the average iq score. Test: standardized device designed to measure a person"s response to speci c. Process of using a uniform, standard procedure for administering & scoring a test. Rules must be established so no test taker is given an unfair advantage.
