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Galton - ✔✔Developed first intelligence theory
Binet - ✔✔Developed first modern intelligence test and coined term IQ
Terman - ✔✔Revised Binet's IQ test into the Stanford-Binet
Intelligence Quotient - ✔✔Mental age divided by chronological age x 100
Power Test - ✔✔Test that has no time limit and includes difficult items that few test
takers can answer
Speed Test - ✔✔Test with a time limit; usually have easy items but too many to answer
in time limit
Standardized Test - ✔✔Test that allows an individual's score to be compared to a norm
group
Mental Measurements Yearbook - ✔✔Best source of information about commercially
available assessments; provides reviews of tests; has companion called Tests in Print
Test Critiques - ✔✔Overview of assessments for the layperson
Army Alpha and Beta - ✔✔Developed by Robert Yerkes to screen cognitive ability of
military recruits; group intelligence test
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, Validity - ✔✔Term that refers to whether test measures what it's supposed to measure;
depends on test purpose and target population
Content Validity - ✔✔A depression inventory that has ?s on all the aspects of
depression (physical, emotional, cognitive) has what kind of validity?
Criterion Validity - ✔✔Type of validity that shows how effective an instrument is at
predicting an individual's performance; two kinds are concurrent and predictive
Concurrent Validity - ✔✔Validity that looks at relationship between test results and
another currently obtainable measure; ex. compare depression inventory with hospital
admissions in last 6 months
Predictive Validity - ✔✔Validity that looks at relationship between test results now and
a measure collected in the future; ex. compare depression inventory with hospital
admissions 2 years after the assessment
Construct Validity - ✔✔How well does an instrument measure a theoretical idea or
concept? example is a personality inventory
Experimental Design Validity - ✔✔Validity that involves an experiment to show the
instrument measures a certain construct; ex. have a therapist give depression inventory
before and after therapy
Factor Analysis - ✔✔Statistical technique to analyze relationship between an
instrument's items; ex. are subscales on depression inventory related to each other and
concept of depression?
Convergent Validity - ✔✔Validity that looks at whether assessment is related to what it
should be; ex. is depression inventory positively correlated to the Beck Depression
Inventory?
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