GRE Psychology - Measurement and
Methodology Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Measurement and Methodology - ✔✔psychological tests are assessments of behavior,
attitudes, mental constructs, personality, mental health
Intelligence - ✔✔-mental construct
-Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and
use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Alfred Binet - ✔✔1857-1911; Field: testing; Contributions: general IQ tests, designed test
to identify slow learners in need of remediation-not applicable in the U.S. because too
culture-bound (French)
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) - ✔✔defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to
chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ=ma/ca x 100). On contemporary
intelligence test, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
Mean IQ - ✔✔Mean IQ = 100 -> this means mental and chronological age correspond
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,Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale - ✔✔-Most common standardized measure of
intelligence (IQ= 100xMA/CA);
-100 is the mean 15 is the standard deviation (85-115)
-measures: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial
processing, and working memory; predictive of academic achievement, economic
success, even greater health, and longevity
-Lewis Terman
Lewis Terman - ✔✔1877-1956; Field: testing; Contributions: revised Binet's IQ test and
established norms for American children
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) - ✔✔general test of intelligence (IQ), most
widely used IQ test today; broken down into 14 sub tests, comprising the verbal (seven
sub tests) and performance scales (seven sub tests).
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale for Children - ✔✔-children aged six to sixteen
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scare of Intelligence (WPPSI) - ✔✔-for children aged
four to six
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test - ✔✔Intelligence test for children is notable for its
relatively cross-cultural application and simple directions: "Make a picture of man.
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, Make the very best picture that you can." Children are scored based on detail and
accuracy, not artistic talent.
IQ correlated most positively with IQ of ________ _________ and _________ ________ of
parents - ✔✔biological parents; socioeconomic status
-Monozygotic twins have the highest correlation, regardless of environment
John Horn and Raymond Cattell - ✔✔Theorist who developed crystallized and fluid
intelligence
Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔- one's ability to reason speedily & abstractly, decrease with age
Ability to learn new things and solve problems
Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to
increase with age
Robert Zajonc - ✔✔1923-present; Field: motivation; Contributions: believes that we
invent explanations to label feelings
-studied relationship between birth order and intelligence
-firstborns, second borns, etc. intelligence diminishes with birth order
-more children = less intelligent
-spacing of children -> greater space higher intelligence
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Methodology Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Measurement and Methodology - ✔✔psychological tests are assessments of behavior,
attitudes, mental constructs, personality, mental health
Intelligence - ✔✔-mental construct
-Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and
use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Alfred Binet - ✔✔1857-1911; Field: testing; Contributions: general IQ tests, designed test
to identify slow learners in need of remediation-not applicable in the U.S. because too
culture-bound (French)
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) - ✔✔defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to
chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ=ma/ca x 100). On contemporary
intelligence test, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
Mean IQ - ✔✔Mean IQ = 100 -> this means mental and chronological age correspond
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,Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale - ✔✔-Most common standardized measure of
intelligence (IQ= 100xMA/CA);
-100 is the mean 15 is the standard deviation (85-115)
-measures: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial
processing, and working memory; predictive of academic achievement, economic
success, even greater health, and longevity
-Lewis Terman
Lewis Terman - ✔✔1877-1956; Field: testing; Contributions: revised Binet's IQ test and
established norms for American children
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) - ✔✔general test of intelligence (IQ), most
widely used IQ test today; broken down into 14 sub tests, comprising the verbal (seven
sub tests) and performance scales (seven sub tests).
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale for Children - ✔✔-children aged six to sixteen
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scare of Intelligence (WPPSI) - ✔✔-for children aged
four to six
Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test - ✔✔Intelligence test for children is notable for its
relatively cross-cultural application and simple directions: "Make a picture of man.
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, Make the very best picture that you can." Children are scored based on detail and
accuracy, not artistic talent.
IQ correlated most positively with IQ of ________ _________ and _________ ________ of
parents - ✔✔biological parents; socioeconomic status
-Monozygotic twins have the highest correlation, regardless of environment
John Horn and Raymond Cattell - ✔✔Theorist who developed crystallized and fluid
intelligence
Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔- one's ability to reason speedily & abstractly, decrease with age
Ability to learn new things and solve problems
Crystallized Intelligence - ✔✔One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to
increase with age
Robert Zajonc - ✔✔1923-present; Field: motivation; Contributions: believes that we
invent explanations to label feelings
-studied relationship between birth order and intelligence
-firstborns, second borns, etc. intelligence diminishes with birth order
-more children = less intelligent
-spacing of children -> greater space higher intelligence
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