| A | B |
|---|
| direction that SAT scores have gone between 1970 & 1992 | declined |
| Henry Goddard | tested arriving immigrants at Ellis Island in 1800's |
| George Sanchez | opened the way to testing Spanish speaking students in their native language |
| Adrian Dove | believed IQ tests were culturally biased |
| Head Start | government program for poor started by LBJ in 1960's |
| 2 types of aptitude tests | scholastic & vocational |
| age group that usually takes interest tests | teens |
| Mensa | organization of those who scored in 98th percentliele on intelligence tests |
| Three main things that personality tests look for | mental disorders, masculine vs. feminine, introvert vs. extrovert |
| how is IQ determined? (mathematic formula) | divide mental age by chronological age & multiply by 100 |
| rates people from "genius" to "retarded" | IQ tests |
| norm score for IQ tests | 100 |
| what age group do traditional i.q. tests work best for? | children |
| created "culturally biased test" against white middle class to prove a point | Adrian Dove |
| best predictor of overall school success (grades) | ability to reason with words |
| Arthur Otis | developed 1st groups test for WWI recruits |
| Factor Analysis | branch of mathematical statistics measuring relationships in test scores |
| Alfred Binet | developed 1st successful intelligence test |
| 4 factors that Binet test on his intelligence tests | memory, attention, adaptation, imagination |
| came up with the idea of "mental age" | Alfred Binet |
| mental age | i.q. typical for a certain age |
| Howard Gardner | identified 7 types of intelligence |
| the 7 types of intelligence | linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal |
| type of intellect concerning language | linguistic |
| type of intellect including drawing | spatial |
| type of intellect involving dance & atheletics | kinesthetic (bodily) |
| type of intellect involving relationships with others | interpersonal |
| type of intellect involving understanding of self | intrapersonal |
| integrity tests | controversial test used for pre-employment which test honesty, work ethic, & morality |
