3006PSY Psychological Assessment of Individual Dif
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3006PSY Psychological Assessment Of Individual Dif
What is a way to demonstrate construct validity correct answers Factor analysis
What is Factor analysis? correct answers A way to demonstrate construct validity
How is factor analysis used in testing? correct answers How each individual loads against one or more factors.
What are the two t...
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What is a way to demonstrate construct validity correct answers Factor analysis
What is Factor analysis? correct answers A way to demonstrate construct validity
How is factor analysis used in testing? correct answers How each individual loads against one or
more factors.
What are the two types of factor analysis? correct answers Exploratory and Confirmatory
Explain exploratory factor analysis. correct answers Have NO idea how items load into different
factors
What is it called when you have NO idea how items load into different factors correct answers
Exploratory factor analysis
Explain confirmatory factor analysis. correct answers You HAVE an idea of which items should
load and which factor.
What is it called when you HAVE an idea of which items should load and which factor. correct
answers Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Pearson in 1901 invented correct answers Factor analysis
Factor analysis was invented by... correct answers Pearson in 1901
What does exploratory factor analysis identifies or finds? correct answers Underlying
Dimensions/clusters/factors/components in data and reduces data to a more manageable size
Exploratory Factor analysis can identify items that are... correct answers Not captured in clusters
of data
Items that are complex-fail equally into two or more different clusters
Neatness (particularly in test construction) is rare in what factor analysis correct answers
Exploratory
Condenses in information by grouping items into related factors or subscales is called correct
answers Factor analysis
What is conducted after an exploratory factor analysis with different sample during test
construction? correct answers Confirmatory Factor Analysis
,confirmatory factor analysis give you evidence of what? correct answers Validity (structural or
factorial)
confirmatory data analysis tells you if it ________ the data correct answers FITS
confirmatory factor analysis Model-testing function tests hypotheses about ________ ________
of tests/items correct answers Underlying structure
What statistical technique is used to examine correlations among variables (items or test) correct
answers Factor analysis
Intelligence consists of the abilities to... correct answers - Understand complex ideas
- Adapts effectively to the environment
- learn from experience
- engage in various forms of reasoning
- overcome obstacles by taking thoughts
Acquire of knowledge, reason logically, plan effectively, and infer perceptively, visualise
concepts, find right words, cope with novel situations is the abilities in what? correct answers
Intelligence
What are the five steps of test development correct answers 1. Test conceptualisation
2. Test construction
3. Test tryout
4. Analysis
5. Revision
What is the complex concept by which heredity AND environment presumed to interact and
influence the development of intelligence? correct answers Interactionalism
Define what is Factor-Analytic Theories of Intelligence correct answers Focuses on identifying
the ability or groups of abilities deemed to constitute intelligence
What focuses on identifying the ability or groups of abilities deemed to constitute intelligence
correct answers Factor-Analytic Theories of Intelligence
1st order factors are? correct answers Factors produced from items
A correlation matrix of factor scores can also be factor analysed to examine presence of....
correct answers 2nd order factors
What is an example of 3rd order factor correct answers 'G' factor (general intelligence) in IQ test
Psychologist in the Mid 20th century used IQ test to evaluate WHAT other than general
intelligence correct answers Schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric conditions
,What is the intelligence quotient (IQ) equation correct answers Score divided by age x 100 = IQ
Alfred Binet and Théodore Simons formed the basis of what in 1905 correct answers IQ test
What two aptitude tests were used to screen people for military service since WW1 correct
answers Army Alpha and Army Beta
Army _______ measures verbal ability, numerical ability, following directions, and knowledge
information correct answers Alpha
Army _______ is a non-verbal test correct answers Beta
Army Alpha tests... correct answers - verbal ability
- numerical ability
- following directions
- knowledge information
Studies have show that individuals with higher IQs have tended to.... correct answers Live longer
than those of lower IQs (longevity)
Evidence has shown that the best hunters of the Bushmen of Kalahari scored _______ the
average of their tribe on modern intelligence tests correct answers Above
What are three ways in which we can increase intelligence correct answers - Mozart effect
(listening to Mozart)
- cognitive training
- health
What is the Mozart effect? correct answers A set of research results indicating that listening to
Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of
mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning;"
What common factors appeared when asking lay public "what is intelligence?" correct answers -
Problem-solving
- verbal-ability
- social-competence
What was the difference between experts and lay people about "what is intelligence" correct
answers Motivation & narrower in definition (expert)
Interpersonal aspects & broader in definition (lay people)
Motor co-ordination, understanding, learn ability, and verbal facility is seen as intelligence in
who? correct answers Children
Use of logic, problem solving, learning ability, and verbal ability is seen as intelligence in who?
correct answers Adults
, Younger children tended to emphasise what skill for intelligence (give example) correct answers
Interpersonal (polite, helpful, being nice)
Older children tended to emphasise what skill for intelligence (give example) correct answers
Academic (reading and writing well, doing well in class)
Greater emphasis on social aspects of intelligence was associated closely with what culture?
correct answers African & Asian culture
Which psychologist thought that a person with higher sensory abilities was determined to be
more intelligent correct answers Sir Francis Galton
Who viewed intelligence as inseparable abilities to require complex measurements to determine
correct answers Alfred Binet
Who believed that across all of the various specific cognitive tasks that were used in intelligence
tests there was a substantial overlap correct answers Charles Spearman
Who conceptualised intelligence as "the aggregate capacity of the individual to act purposefully,
to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment"? correct answers David
Wechsler
Who focused his research on the development of cognitive abilities in children (how children
think, how they understand themselves and the world around them). correct answers Jean Piaget
Who argues that traditional IQ tests were limited and only covered subset human intelligence.
correct answers Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner proposed theory of multiple intelligences in what areas correct answers -
linguistic (word smart)
- logical, mathematical (logic smart)
- intrapersonal (self smart)
- interpersonal (people smart)
- musical (music smart)
- bodily-kinesthetic (body smart)
- spatial (picture smart)
- naturalist (nature smart)
What theory consists of two factors, I.e. "g" factor (general intelligence) and "s" factor (specific
ability correct answers Spearman's Two Factor Theory of Intelligence
Individuals possess different levels of seven abilities, I.e. word fluency, verbal comprehension,
spatial visualisation, number facility, associative memory, reasoning, and perceptual is
associated with what correct answers Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities (PMA)
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