1. INTELLIGENCE CHAPTER 13

2. 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 SOLVING  PRATICAL

3. 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

4. DISTRIBUTION  < 75 RETARDED  80 – 125 NORMAL  > 130 GIFTED  “THE BELL CURVE”

5. 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