Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction To Tests and Measurement, 5/e

Ronald Jay Cohen
Mark Swerdlik

Intelligence and Its Measurement

Chapter Outline

What Is Intelligence?

Intelligence Defined: Views of the Lay Public

Intelligence Defined: View of Scholars and Test Professionals

Francis Galton

Alfred Binet

David Wechsler

Jean Piaget

Factor-Analytic Theories of Intelligence

The CHC model

The Information-Processing View

Measuring Intelligence

Types of Tasks Used in Intelligence Tests

Theory in Intelligence Test Development and Interpretation

Intelligence: Some Issues

Nature Versus Nurture

Inheritance and interactionism

The Stability of Intelligence

Other Issues

Personality

Gender

Family environment

Culture

A Perspective

CLOSE-UP

Culture-Fair/Culture-Loaded

EVERYDAY PSYCHOMETRICS

Being Gifted

SELF-ASSESSMENT

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