1. Intelligence and Testing 5-7% of the AP Test

2.  Everybody is a genius…but if you judged a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing it is stupid” – Albert Einstein

3. Psychological Testing  Used to assess abilities, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors.  The Plan, The Explore, SAT, ACT, ASVAP, MCAT, GRE, Wonderlic, etc.  They can be very helpful if used correctly.

4. 4 features of a USEFUL test 1. Standardization 2. Reliability 3. Validity 4. Norms

5. Standardization  Everyone taking the test does it exactly the same.  Time limit, questions, directions, etc.  Every AP Psych student will take the test on May 2 nd in the after noon.  100 MC questions – 70 minutes

6. Reliability  Test scores are the same every time you take it.  What did you get on the ACT if you took it multiple times?  If you took an IQ test today and one in 10 years it should be the same.  If my tests are Reliable what you have been getting in class on tests should relate to the score you get on the AP test.

7. Types of Reliability  Test-retest Reliability  Alternate form – “But test B is tougher”  Split half  Correlation Coefficients – the closer the CC is to +1 the more reliable it is. If being used should be above.9

8. Validity  Does the test show what it is supposed to show?  When you take the AP test on May 2 nd and you do well, does that mean you would do well in Psych 101? If so than the AP test is Valid.

9. Types of Validity  Content Validity – Does the AP test cover Psych stuff?  Criterion-Related Validity- If you take the ACT and do well you should so equally well on the SAT.  Construct validity – (A construct is a vague hard to test concept) So what does happy mean? How do you measure it?  Predictive validity – Future performance

10. Norms  What is the Average? Outliers?  Bell Curve and Standard Deviation

11. Types of Test  IQ  Aptitude  Achievement

12. Measuring Intelligence  Galton  Unsuccessful  Bell curve should apply to psychological characteristics

13. Stanford-Binet  Binet – first to develop a test to classify children  Intelligence increases with age so had different questions for different age groups.  Test yields you Mental Age (MA)  Compare your MA to your Chronological Age

14. Intelligence Quotient Mental Age Chronological Age 100 IQ Let’s Practice 1.MA 6, CA 6 = ? 2.MA 8, CA 6 = ? 3.MA 6, CA 8 = ? 100 133 75

15. Wechsler Scales (WAIS)  IQ test used now  No MA but keeps IQ  Includes Subtests – verbal, nonverbal,  Uses NORMS to set scores

17. Spearman  G factor – general intelligence  Good at everything using factor analysis Jack Bauer is good at torturing, bomb defusing, shooting, figuring out evil plots and saving the country (and he is good looking). Is there anything he cannot do?

18. Thurston  Modern SAT  No g factor – different intelligences

19. Sternberg – Triarchic

20. Problems with IQ tests  Culturally Bias – Robert Williams IQ test – how did you do?  Motivation  Self-fulfilling prophecy  It has been estimated it takes 10 years to become an expert in any field Penny's Intelligence Test

21. Gardner Multiple Intelligences

22. Emotional Intelligence  Self- Awareness  Mood Management  Self-Motivation  Impulse Control  People Skills Marshmallow Study

23. Flynn Effect HOWEVER The bell curve does not change, test makers adjust cut scores Idiocracy

24. Savant Syndrome  Prodigies  Kim Peek – Inspiration for Rain Man (Although Kim Peek does not have autism)

25. Mental Retardation  Mild 50 – 70  Moderate 35 – 49  Severe 20 – 34  Profound Below 20

26. Causes  Organic – (genetic)  Down Syndrome  Phenylketonuria (PKU)  Other (preventable)  Prenatal, nutrition, neglect, schooling  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome  Brain traumas – accidents, lack of oxygen, drugs

27.  Mrs. Mackson’s soap box  Death Penalty

28. Heredity  Twin Studies  Heritability  Environmental  Reaction Range