INTELLIGENCECHAPTER 13

PSYCHOMETRICS

DEVELOPING TESTS TO ASSESS INDIVIDUAL SKILL, ABILTY, PERSONALITY, AND BELIEF SPEARMAN – TWO-FACTOR THEORY (IQ TESTS) GARDNER – MULTIPLE-INTELLIGNECE THEORY STERNBERG – THRIARCHIC THEORY (REASONING)

ANALYTICAL PROBLEM SOLVINGPRATICAL

MEASURING

BRAIN SIZE AND WEIGHT BINET-SIMON INTELLIGENCE SCALE

INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT = MENTAL AGE / CHRONILOGICAL AGE x 100 RATIO VS. DEVIATION WECHSLER’S TESTS

WAIS-III WISC-III

VALIDITY – DOES IT MEASURE WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO RELIABILITY – CONSISTENCY OF RESULTS OVER TIME

DISTRIBUTION

< 75 RETARDED80 – 125 NORMAL> 130 GIFTED“THE BELL CURVE”

APPLICATION

PROBLEMS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CULTURAL BIAS NON-INTELLICTUAL FACTORS ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS MISUSE OF IQ TESTS

CLASS BOUNDARIES CLASSIFICATION OF RACE IMMIGRATION LAWS

INTERVENTION HEAD START ABECEDARIAN PROJECT PHISIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES

NATURE-NURTURE QUESTION