Chapter 10-Intelligence

A general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

Statistac procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score

Binet
chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance

American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's origional intelligence test

Ration of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100...assigned to a score of 100
(IQ=ma/ca x 100)

Assess what a person has learned

Predict a persons future performance.
aptitude is the capacity to learn

Most widely used
has verbal and performance subtests

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group

Extent to which a test yields consistent results
assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test or by retesting

Extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

Extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest

Success with which a test predicts the behavior that it is supposed to
assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior (also called criterion-related validity)

Group of people from a given time period

Builds over time
accumulated knowledge ad verbal skills