Intro to Psych PSY 132

What English Statistician made the 1st attempt at creating a standardized test for rating a person's intelligence?

Test bias refers to the differential validity of test scores for groups (e.g., age, education, culture, race, sex)

In what year did Charles Spearman made the first formal factor analysis of correlations between the tests?

Refers to whether a test accurately measures what it was designed to measure.

Bias is not a systematic error in the measurement process that differentially influences scores for identified groups

Which State in America currently prohibits school psychologists from assessing African-American students with IQ test?

What is the Definition of Intelligence?

Henry Goddard used this term to refer to people who did not perform well on the test and were intellectually inferior

Test focused on the verbal abilities of individuals intended to identify mental retardation in school children.

Which test may be biased if the "norming process" does not include representative samples of all the tested subgroups?

Refers to the principle of heredity used to improve the human race?

What is one of the three types of intelligence?

Before IQ tests were devised, people were classified into intelligence categories by observing daily life behaviors.

Nonverbal or "Performance" tests were developed for those who could not speak English or were suspected of malingering

"Larry P. case" a class against lawsuit on behalf of African American students in Educable Mentally retarded classes