Ap psychology Vocab unit 11 Testing behaviors

The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

• Reliability

• Validity

• Content validity

• Predictive validity

This underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

(Spearman)

• General intelligence

• Intelligence

• Factor analysis

• Savant syndrome

Defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100. On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.

• WAIS

• Intelligence quotient

• Mental age

• Normal curve

The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior.

• WAIS

• Validity

• Content validity

• Predictive validity

The most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.

• WAIS

• Intelligence qoutient

• Standardization

• Stanford-Binet

The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.

• Validity

• Content validity
• Predictive validity

• Normal curve

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

• Reliability

• Validity

• Standardization

• Mental age

A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.

• Savant syndrome

• Factor analysis

• Grit

• Emotional intelligence

The widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.

• WAIS

• Mental age

• Intelligence quotient

• Stanford-Binet

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.

• Predictive validity

• Content validity

• Validity

• Reliability