PSYC 3850 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Standard Score
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Legal and ethical consideraions: individuals with disabiliies educaion act (idea) provides guidelines that emphasize non-discriminatory assessment pracices. Norm-referenced tesing: an overview: norm-referenced tests are used to compare an individual"s performance to a speciic reference group called the standardizaion sample, issues such as validity and reliability are important. Conceptual models of intelligence: early theorists such as j. catell, spearman, thurstone and more recently r. catell, horn, Carroll, das and naglieri inluenced models of intelligence used in current intelligence tests. Overview of intelligence tesing: dates back to the late 19th century, current popular intelligence tests include the stanford-binet intelligence scale-5 and the. Wechsler intelligence scale for children-iv: alternaive to tradiional intelligence tesing have been proposed. Behaviour scales-ii: a related instrument is the supports intensity scale. A test in which a person"s performance is compared to a speciic reference group usually by age or grade level: this reference group is called the standardizaion sample. Provides the norms on which to base the comparison.