PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sat, Lewis Terman, Intelligence Quotient
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What it measures: mental ability test and personality test. Principal subcategories: intelligence test, aptitude test and achievement test. Measures general mental ability: precisely intellectual potential rather than accumulated knowledge. Asses specific type of mental abilities (similar to intelligence but specific) Doesn"t measure potential but mastery of various subjects (gauge accumulated. Measures various aspect of personalities: motives, interests, values, attitudes. Standardization: uniform procedures used in administration and scoring of a test. Test norms: how the score obtained ranked in relation to other scores on that test. Percentile score: indicate the percentage of people who have scored at or below one"s score. > if you are placed at the 70th percentile in depression, it means that you are very depressed (69% of other people is also depressed) Standardization group: sample of people that the norms are based on (to measure what is considered as norm) Separate norms: to interpret many intelligence tests: weschler adult intelligence scale (wais)
