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Types of Intelligence Tests Glossary

This document defines key terms related to intelligence tests, including: - Cultural bias which refers to test items that require specific cultural knowledge - Culture-fair tests which are designed to minimize advantages from certain cultures - Deviation IQ which locates subjects within the normal distribution using standard deviations - Individual and group tests, with individual tests given by a specialist to one person - IQ which originally represented intelligence quotient but now indicates test performance relative to others - Reliability which refers to a test's consistency in measuring performance - Standardization which develops uniform procedures and norms for a test - Validity which refers to a test actually measuring what it intends to measure

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Types of Intelligence Tests Glossary

This document defines key terms related to intelligence tests, including: - Cultural bias which refers to test items that require specific cultural knowledge - Culture-fair tests which are designed to minimize advantages from certain cultures - Deviation IQ which locates subjects within the normal distribution using standard deviations - Individual and group tests, with individual tests given by a specialist to one person - IQ which originally represented intelligence quotient but now indicates test performance relative to others - Reliability which refers to a test's consistency in measuring performance - Standardization which develops uniform procedures and norms for a test - Validity which refers to a test actually measuring what it intends to measure

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Glossary    

                                Types  of  Intelligence  Tests  


 
Chronological  Age:  A  person’s  age  in  years  
 
Cultural  Bias:   the   tendency   of   items   on   a   test   of   intelligence   to   require   specific   cultural  
experience  or  knowledge  
 
Culture-­‐fair  test:  A   test   designed   to   minimize   the   importance   skills   and   knowledge   that  
may  be  more  common  in  some  cultures  than  I  others.  
 
Intelligence  tests  that  are  intended  to  be  culturally  unbiased  
 
Deviation  IQ:  Scores   that   locate   subjects   precisely   within   the   normal   distribution,   using  
the  standard  deviation  as  the  unit  of  measurement  
a   type   of   intelligence   measure   that   assumes   that   IQ   is   normally   distributed   around   a  
mean  of  100  with  a  standard  deviation  of  about  15.  
 
Group   Test:   Any   intelligence   test   that   can   be   administered   to   a   group   of   people   with  
minimal  supervision.  
 
Individual   Test:     A  test  of  intelligence  designed  to  be  given  to  a  single  individual  by  a  
trained  specialist.  
 
Intelligence  Tests  Psychological  tests  that  measure  general  mental  ability  
 
IQ:  Originally,  “intelligence  quotient,”  a  number  that  examiners  derived  by  dividing  an  
individual’s   mental   age   by   his   or   her   chronological   age.   Now   IQ   simply   indicates   an  
individual’s  performance  on  an  intelligence  test  relative  to  those  of  other  persons.  
 
Mental  Age:  The  average  mental  ability  people  display  at  a  given  age  
 
Performance   Test:   A   test   involving   a   motor   or   manual   response,   generally   a  
manipulation  of  concrete  materials  or  equipment  such  as     solving  puzzles,  assembling  
 

objects,  completing  pictures,  and  other  non-­‐verbal  tasks.  


 
Raven  Progressive:A  popular  test  of  intelligence  that  was  designed  to  be  relatively  free.  
Matrices:  Of  cultural  bias.  
 
Reliability:   the   extent   to   which   a   test   yields   a   consistent,   reproducible   measure   of  
performance  
 
Standardization:   Involves   developing   uniform   procedures   for   administering   and   scoring  
a  test,  as  well  as  creating  norms  for  the  test  
 
Standardized   test  An  oral  or  written  assessment  for  which  an  individual  receives  a  score  
indicating  how  the  individual  responded  relative  to  others  
 
Stanford-­‐Binet  A  widely  used  individual  test  of  intelligence,  a  direct    
 
Intelligence  Scale:  descendent  of  Alfred  Binet’s  first  intelligence  test.  
 
Test  Norms  Standards  that  provide  information  about  where  a  score  on  a  psychological  
test  ranks  in  relation  to  other  scores  on  that  test  
 
Validity:  the  extent  to  which  a  test  measures  what  it  is  intended  to  measure  
 
Verbal   Intelligence:   Intelligence   measured   by   answering   questions   involving  
vocabulary,   general   information,   arithmetic,   and   other   language-­‐   or   symbol-­‐oriented  
tasks.  
 
 

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