Quiz 1 Chapters 1/2 Flashcards
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First systematic tests were developed
China 2200B.C.E. ; selecting people for government jobs ; “privileged people”
Pillars of Natural Selection
Variation
Selection
Proliferation (ex. reproduction)
Francis Galton
Believed can improve humankind by artificial natural selection ; Recommended weaker people to not mate and get sterilized
James McKeen Cattell
coined the term mental test
Binet and Simon (1905)
eveloped the first intelligence test to identify mentally retarded Paris school-children to help them
where did The use of intelligence tests start
school, clinics, courts, hospitals, and prisons
founder of natural selection
Charles Darwin
Natural Selection
the action of passing down advantageous traits which are preferred and stronger to survive which women are more likely to choose their partners with. The next pool/generations of offspring will obtain those traits that make them better and stronger and more likely to survive rather than the offspring that did not get passed down those traits.
eugenics
Selecting advantageous traits and eliminating
harmful ones to breed better human kind
Francis Galton
Eugenics
Henry Goddard
early psychological testing of immigrants
the majority of immigrant populations were “feeble-minded”
Porteus (1931)
administered intelligence tests to Aborigines and Africans
DuBois (1939)
horse drawing tests versus draw a man tests on Pueblo Indian Children
what did Goddard’s research spark?
a nature vs nurture debate about intelligence
Culture specific tests were developed
1940’s
Lave, 1977
found Liberian tailors were as competent in math as whites when the task was incorporated in their occupation
Scribner 1984
showed a similar finding in dairymen in New York
Hutchins 1980
“primative” people showed advanced reasoning skills when debating land rights
Dixon-Roman 2013
In reality, high SES (socioeconomic status) children do better in SAT than low SES children
The Rights of Test-Takers
why they are being evaluated
How the data will be used
What info will be released and to whom
Test takers should give their informed consent.
other rights
The right to be informed of test findings: Giving information about test performance to examinees is ethically and legally mandated and may be useful from a therapeutic perspective as well
How should Test users sensitively inform
using standard deviations
The right to privacy and confidentiality
information provided by clients to psychologists is considered privileged info; Safe-guarding test data
Level A tests
simple paper and pencil tests
