PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Intellectual Disability, Divergent Thinking, Metacognition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2105
• Professor: Brenda Baird

Document Summary

Psychometric approach: standardized tests to identify individual differences among people, iq tests yield ordered differences among people. Results in an evaluative dimension in which person a is less or more intelligent than person b: iq tests are pragmatically oriented. Determine the type of education a student should receive: standardized testing: asses intelligence iq. These norms are created by testing 100 kids of the same age from each age group (6-16 yrs of age). Guring out patterns: 4) working memory , ex. giving them numbers and asking the to repeat them, sometimes to repeat them backwards, 5) processing speed , how fast can they do a task? ex. taking down notes. 100 iq is the average score convert into percentile: the average range is 25-75th percentile learning disability: below 2nd percentile academically gifted; over 98th percentile. Evaluating intelligence tests: characteristics of a good psychometric test include : Reliability: whether the test gives repeatable scores (consistency of measurement)