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PSY Week 5: Intelligence Controversies (Culture (test bias (pax can do…

- - - - doesnt have rel or validty of WAIS but showes support for unbiased indicator of giftedness
      - dif types of creativity tend to load onto single factor (support for g) but still largely unexplained
      - meas: fluency, originality, flexibility
      - interesting view: society may be decreasing creativity while increasing IQ
  - - - for 5+ years, individ test, estimates grade lvl functioning, good for comparing IQ score to actual achievement
      - assesses: reading, maths, spelling, sentence comprehension
      - early versions criticised for bad pyshcometrics, better now bt still not adequate sample to show discriminate or convergent validity
    - - indiv & gr nonverbal test, quickest, easiest, least expensive to adiminstor, draw a pic of a whole man, points for details, max points 70
      - compares scores w age norms, adequate to high rel (bet .6 - .9) and has sig rel w WAIS, howev must be used in conjunction w other tests
    - - attempts to get rid of cult/lang barriers
      - has 3 lvls: 4-8 y/o & ment disabled, 8-12 y/o & random adults, highschool+ & above average adults
      - has 2 parallel forms, standardised varies across ages range and well corr w WIAS & Binet, howev Raven is better
    - - 5+ years, nonverb, best known, most pop n.verb test, 60 matricies & fill in logical missing peice
      - very simple to administer, supports Spearmans g, may be single best achievement test bc of multidimensional scaling - MRI study show reflected activ in PFC
      - originally designed for military recruits, good rel & val and v. good test that minimises lang, culture and racial effects
    - - for 18-54 years, used for US civil service, meas g (motor coordination, form perception, verbal, numerical and spatial aptitudes
      - used w/i groups norming which is now illegal, is somewhat out of date
    - - for year 11s & 12s, given to over 1.3 mill pax per year,
      - has 10 subsets: general science, maths, numeral operations, wold knowl, paragraph comprehension, coding speed, mechanical comprehension, academic composits etc
      - v good psychometrics, now computerised to cut down time and hone in on pax unique abilities
  - - - for 5 -12 y/o, controversial test, makes assumptions based on failure to respond correctly
      - lack of response assumed deficit in one of 3 stages: sensory input, infor processing, response
      - has 12 subsets to meas globa composites , genreal, spoken & written lang
      - criticised: hard to administer & score, not rel or val, howev has been updated w good psychometrics and wide normative sample
    - - better test for LDs, desing as broad range indiv test used in edu settings
      - assesses: g, specific cog ability, scholastic aptitude, oral language, achievement
      - has 3 independent/coordinated test batteries - cognitive, achievement, oral language
      - can calculate intra-ability discrepancies and pinpoint specific deficits & isolate areas of concern
  - - - based on psycholgoical deficit (poor perf on task related to underlying deficit)
      - pax 8+ years, how many shapes can pax reproduce from mem, some errors also assoc w normal aging, learning dis & schiz
    - - has sme dev'ment norms but most can copy w only 1-2 errors, good for pax w MA below 9, brain dam, non-verb, LDs & emotional probs
      - questions about reliability but still widely used
      - one of most popular brain dam tests, 9 geometric figures pax asked to copy and meas number of errors made
    - - for 8-60 y/o, simple 10 min drawing test meas perceptual-motor coordination
      - good rel but needs more info on validity, used as screening x diagnostic tool