9.2 Evaluation of Intelligence Tests
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 standardization | the process of evaluating the questions, establishing rules for administering a test, and interpreting the scores |
| norms | descriptions of how frequently various scores occur |
| Down syndrome | people with a variety of physical and medical impairments as a result of having an extra copy of chromosome #21 |
| Flynn effect - James Flynn 1984 | decade by decade, generation by generation, people's raw scores on IQ tests have gradually increased, and test makers have had to make the tests harder to keep the mean score at 100. |
| developmental quotient | this score is based on the ages at which an infant holds the head up, sits up, stands, walks, jumps, shows curiosity, says a first word, responds to requests, and so forth (not the same as IQ but positively correlated) |
| Heterosis | improvement due to outbredding |
| reliability | the reputability of its scores |
| test-retest reliability | the correlation between scores on a first test and a retest |
| validity | the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretation soy test scores for its tended purposes - a determination of how well the test measures what it claims to measure |
| biased test | overstates or understates the true performance of one or more groups |
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