Clinical Psychology
7 The Assessment of Intelligence 7 The Assessment of Intelligence FOCUS QUESTIONS What is intelligence, and what are some of th ...
T he history of clinical psychology is inextricably tied to the assessment of intelligence. Without the success in this and rela ...
Flyer for Galtons’s Anthropometric Lab Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy THE ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE 193 ...
widespread use of intelligence tests went largely unchallenged. However, by the end of the 1960s, everyone from psychologists to ...
different responses, the test data may not be very useful. In some instances, clients may remember on the second occasion their ...
thing? That is, are the items highly correlated with each other? The preferred method of assessing internal consistency reliabil ...
overall adjustment but that contained only items dealing with adjustment at work would not have content validity because it fail ...
Kamphaus, 1993; Neisser et al., 1996; Sternberg et al., 2005). Over the years, there has been no shortage of either theories or ...
factor analytic techniques to test it. Whereas other psychometric approaches generally attempted to infer a model from the data, ...
gfactor of Spearman or the group factors of Thur- stone. The whole notion of a single IQ score that can represent the individual ...
Whether we define intelligence in terms ofg, separate abilities, or hierarchical relationships among factors, society ultimately ...
BOX7-2 Behavioral Genetics Behavioral genetics is a research specialty in which both genetic and environmental influences on the ...
A landmark review by Bouchard and McGue (1981) summarizes many of these behavioral genetics studies of intelligence. Table 7-3 p ...
reared apart; and there is a significant correlation between the IQs of nonbiologically related but reared-together relatives”(p ...
In summary, genetic versus environmental influences are not either/or choices. Clearly, both play some role in the development a ...
The Stanford-Binet Scales For many years, the Binet scales were the preferred tests. They underwent many revisions after Binet’s ...
retardation, or attention defict disorder could be reli- ably classified and distinguished from their peers based on SB-5 scores ...
Index scores provide a more detailed evaluation of the examinee’s strengths and weaknesses across tasks. Following are brief des ...
go through a list of colored shapes and mark the targeted shapes. This is a supplementary subtest for IQ scores. Obtaining the F ...
children ages 6 through 16 years, the WISC-IV con- sists of ten core and five supplementary subtests. Like its predecessors, the ...
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