1. Do Now
Pick up a Grade Cam Answer sheet from the table in the front of the classroom.
Fill in and bubble your GradeCam ID (Student Number)
On the Blank space of the answer sheet write the following:
Your Name
Date
Block #
Psychology Research Methods Post-Test

2. Psychological Tests/Intelligence Tests
Book work review

3. What is meant when we ask about the reliability and validity of a test?
The term reliability refers to a test’s consistency- the ability to yield the same result under a variety of circumstances
The term validity refers to the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure.

4. Identify three measures of a test’s reliability
Test-retest
Interscorer-scorer
Split-half

5. What does it mean if a test is standardized?
Administered and scored the same way every time
The norm, average score, made by a large group of people

6. Do you think an intelligence test would be a valid test for measuring a person’s knowledge of a foreign language?

7. What are the two-factor and triarchic theories of intelligence?
Two-factor Theory:
Proposed by Charles Spearman in 1904
Two factors contribute to a person’s intelligence
g = general intelligence
s = specific mental abilities
Triarchic Theory:
Proposed by Robert Sternberg in 1985
Intelligence can be divided into three ways of processing information
Analytical = thinking, problem-solving
Creative = new situations
Practical = street smarts

8. How are the two major intelligence tests scored?
How Scored
Stanford-Binet
Dividing a child’s mental age by chronological age and multiplying by 100
Score of 100 = average performance
Wechsler tests
Percentile scores
Separate IQ scores for verbal and performance abilities
More detailed picture of individual strengths and differences

9. What are Gardner’s 8 types of intelligences?
Linguistic/Verbal
Logical-Mathematical
Spatial
Musical
Body-Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalist

10. Which has the greatest impact on intelligence- nature or nurture?
Heritability- the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors 52%
Nurture:
Brothers and sisters raised in the same environment are more likely to have similar IQ’s than raised apart
Preschool; Head Start

11. Criteria for determining intelligence