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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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