Psychometrics Exam with accurate detailed solutions ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Assessment - correct answer✔✔A broad array of evaluative procedures that yield ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
information about a person ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What are examples of assessments? - correct answer✔✔Personality tests (objective and
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projective), clinical interviews, achievement tests, aptitude tests ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Tests - correct answer✔✔Tests are a subset of assessment techniques that yield scores based
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on the gathering of collective data (e.g., finding the sum of correct items on a multiple-
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choice exam) ||\\//||
When did the history of modern assessment begin? - correct answer✔✔Beginning of the
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20th C ||\\//||
What are ancient examples of assessment? - correct answer✔✔1. God assessing Issac
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2. Chinese government assessed people for fitness to work in gov't populations
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3.Writings from Plato indicate that the Greeks assessed both the intellectual and physical ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
ability of men when screening for state service ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Why were assessments originally developed? - correct answer✔✔Initially developed for
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physicians and philosophers to mostly better understand people's cognitive questioning ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is Jean Esquirol? - correct answer✔✔Jean Esquirol assessed how language ability
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relates to intelligence in persons with developmental disabilities, his focus on language
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ability is often seen as the beginning of what later became known as the assessment of "
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verbal IQ." ||\\//||
,Who is Edouard Sequen? - correct answer✔✔Mans suggested that intellectual deficits in
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
children were stronger with physiological deficits (e.g. swinging walk, busy hands
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automatically, meaningless look, limited or repetitive speech) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What did Edouard Sequin develop? - correct answer✔✔Seguin developed the form board
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Why did Sequin create the form board? - correct answer✔✔Seguin developed the form
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board to increase his patients' motor control and sensory discrimination and to compare
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children and individuals with severe intellectual deficits to average children at different age
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groups
Why is the foam board considered significant? - correct answer✔✔Considered by some to
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be the forerunner of performance IQ measures as form boards are still used for those
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measures
What were scientists in the 1800's engrossed in? - correct answer✔✔Scientists in the mid-
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1800s became engrossed in trying to understand the development of the human species
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What did Sir Francis Galton (Darwin's cousin) hypothesize? - correct answer✔✔people
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
inherited physical and mental characteristics---> thought that some who inherited physical||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
traits such as reaction time and stronger grip strength may be related to superior
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intellectual ability ----> his research spurred the correlation coefficient ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is William Wundt? - correct answer✔✔physiological psychology, developed one of the
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first psychological laboratories that used experimental research (he studied rxn time of
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stimuli in relation to senses) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
,Who was James McKeen Cattell? - correct answer✔✔one of the earliest psychologists to use
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
statistics to better understand the person (used mental tests which assessed individual
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differences in reaction time and memory span) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is G.S Hall? - correct answer✔✔Worked under Wundt and was the founder and first
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
president of the APA in 1892 ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What two groupings can you put Ability tests in? - correct answer✔✔Intelligence testing
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and neurological assessment
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Who is Alfred Binet and what did he do? - correct answer✔✔Developed the first
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intelligence tests ||\\//||
What is the history behind Alfred Binet and the intelligence test - correct answer✔✔Was
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
asked to develop a test that would help assess and integrate children with mental
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
deficiencies, critical of the way mental deficiencies were diagnosed in children he and ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
colleague Simon developed a scale that could be administered 1:1 that would measure ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
higher mental processes (e.g. through light tracking, word distinction)----> info used
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developed the first modern-day intelligence test ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is Lewis Terman? - correct answer✔✔made revisions to Binet and Simon's scales
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
based on normative data he received from children whom he used this scale on, commonly
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named the Stanford Revision of the Binet and Simon scale--> now called Stanford- Binet
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Who was the first person to use the term Intelligence Quotient or I.Q - correct
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answer✔✔Lewis Terman ||\\//||
What is IQ? - correct answer✔✔mental age/ chronological age* 100
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In what type of assessments are IQ tests sometimes used? - correct answer✔✔I.Q tests
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, What was created in WW1? - correct answer✔✔new screening and diagnostic tools to
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assess soldiers undergoing trauma were created in WW1
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When and why was neuropsychology established? - correct answer✔✔During the twentieth
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century, as individuals became more interested in the nature of the brain and spurred on
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by the use of X-rays and other forms of brain imaging the field was established
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What is neuropsychology? - correct answer✔✔the study of brain function as it relates to
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behaviour
When are neuropsychological assessments conducted? - correct answer✔✔when a
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suspected change occurs due to disease, accidents, or violence to the brain a neuropsych ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
assessment is conducted ||\\//|| ||\\//||
How far can interest in how the brain impacts cognitive and behavioural function go? -
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correct answer✔✔Can be traced back to early Egypt where observations of behavioural
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changes following head injuries are recorded in 5,000-year-old Egyptian medical documents
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What did Terman & others stress with relation to group abilities? - correct
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
answer✔✔Stressed the importance of having trained examiners administer tests ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
individually
What are the negatives of group test? - correct answer✔✔Often took long and was costly
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Who was Robert Terkes? - correct answer✔✔President of the APA at the time of WW1
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Assessment - correct answer✔✔A broad array of evaluative procedures that yield ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
information about a person ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What are examples of assessments? - correct answer✔✔Personality tests (objective and
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
projective), clinical interviews, achievement tests, aptitude tests ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Tests - correct answer✔✔Tests are a subset of assessment techniques that yield scores based
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
on the gathering of collective data (e.g., finding the sum of correct items on a multiple-
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choice exam) ||\\//||
When did the history of modern assessment begin? - correct answer✔✔Beginning of the
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20th C ||\\//||
What are ancient examples of assessment? - correct answer✔✔1. God assessing Issac
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2. Chinese government assessed people for fitness to work in gov't populations
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3.Writings from Plato indicate that the Greeks assessed both the intellectual and physical ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
ability of men when screening for state service ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Why were assessments originally developed? - correct answer✔✔Initially developed for
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
physicians and philosophers to mostly better understand people's cognitive questioning ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is Jean Esquirol? - correct answer✔✔Jean Esquirol assessed how language ability
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
relates to intelligence in persons with developmental disabilities, his focus on language
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
ability is often seen as the beginning of what later became known as the assessment of "
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verbal IQ." ||\\//||
,Who is Edouard Sequen? - correct answer✔✔Mans suggested that intellectual deficits in
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
children were stronger with physiological deficits (e.g. swinging walk, busy hands
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
automatically, meaningless look, limited or repetitive speech) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What did Edouard Sequin develop? - correct answer✔✔Seguin developed the form board
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Why did Sequin create the form board? - correct answer✔✔Seguin developed the form
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
board to increase his patients' motor control and sensory discrimination and to compare
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
children and individuals with severe intellectual deficits to average children at different age
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
groups
Why is the foam board considered significant? - correct answer✔✔Considered by some to
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
be the forerunner of performance IQ measures as form boards are still used for those
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
measures
What were scientists in the 1800's engrossed in? - correct answer✔✔Scientists in the mid-
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
1800s became engrossed in trying to understand the development of the human species
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What did Sir Francis Galton (Darwin's cousin) hypothesize? - correct answer✔✔people
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
inherited physical and mental characteristics---> thought that some who inherited physical||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
traits such as reaction time and stronger grip strength may be related to superior
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
intellectual ability ----> his research spurred the correlation coefficient ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is William Wundt? - correct answer✔✔physiological psychology, developed one of the
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
first psychological laboratories that used experimental research (he studied rxn time of
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stimuli in relation to senses) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
,Who was James McKeen Cattell? - correct answer✔✔one of the earliest psychologists to use
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
statistics to better understand the person (used mental tests which assessed individual
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
differences in reaction time and memory span) ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is G.S Hall? - correct answer✔✔Worked under Wundt and was the founder and first
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
president of the APA in 1892 ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
What two groupings can you put Ability tests in? - correct answer✔✔Intelligence testing
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and neurological assessment
||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is Alfred Binet and what did he do? - correct answer✔✔Developed the first
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
intelligence tests ||\\//||
What is the history behind Alfred Binet and the intelligence test - correct answer✔✔Was
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
asked to develop a test that would help assess and integrate children with mental
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
deficiencies, critical of the way mental deficiencies were diagnosed in children he and ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
colleague Simon developed a scale that could be administered 1:1 that would measure ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
higher mental processes (e.g. through light tracking, word distinction)----> info used
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
developed the first modern-day intelligence test ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Who is Lewis Terman? - correct answer✔✔made revisions to Binet and Simon's scales
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
based on normative data he received from children whom he used this scale on, commonly
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named the Stanford Revision of the Binet and Simon scale--> now called Stanford- Binet
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Who was the first person to use the term Intelligence Quotient or I.Q - correct
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answer✔✔Lewis Terman ||\\//||
What is IQ? - correct answer✔✔mental age/ chronological age* 100
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In what type of assessments are IQ tests sometimes used? - correct answer✔✔I.Q tests
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, What was created in WW1? - correct answer✔✔new screening and diagnostic tools to
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assess soldiers undergoing trauma were created in WW1
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When and why was neuropsychology established? - correct answer✔✔During the twentieth
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century, as individuals became more interested in the nature of the brain and spurred on
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by the use of X-rays and other forms of brain imaging the field was established
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What is neuropsychology? - correct answer✔✔the study of brain function as it relates to
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behaviour
When are neuropsychological assessments conducted? - correct answer✔✔when a
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suspected change occurs due to disease, accidents, or violence to the brain a neuropsych ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
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How far can interest in how the brain impacts cognitive and behavioural function go? -
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correct answer✔✔Can be traced back to early Egypt where observations of behavioural
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changes following head injuries are recorded in 5,000-year-old Egyptian medical documents
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What did Terman & others stress with relation to group abilities? - correct
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individually
What are the negatives of group test? - correct answer✔✔Often took long and was costly
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Who was Robert Terkes? - correct answer✔✔President of the APA at the time of WW1
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