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Charles Spearman |
Noticed that people "smart" in one area were often skilled in other areas, so he thought there was only 1 type of intelligence... called the g-factor |
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G-factor |
a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. |
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L.L. Thurstaone (1930s) |
made up 8 primary mental abilities... later his idea was copied and improved by Howard Gardner (in Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence's) |
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Reification |
When we view an abstract concept as it if were a concrete thing, we have made the error of reification |
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aptitude test |
a test designed to predict a persons future performance. aptitude refers to the capacity to learn. |
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achievement test |
a test designed to assess what a person has already learned |
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factor analysis |
a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie ones total score |
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criterion |
the behavior that a test, such as the SAT, is designed to predict |
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heritability |
the proportion of variation among individuals on a particular trait that can attributed to the differences in their genes. |
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reliability |
the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test or on retesting at a later date |
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Validity |
the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. |
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standardization |
defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested "standardization group". |
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Face Validity |
the extent to which questions on a test APPEAR to measure the construct of interest
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