1) How was intelligence defined by Spencer and Galton?
2) What was the major problem with ‘intelligence' tests prior to the Binet test?
3) What was the motivation for Binet to develop his test?
4) How many questions were on the first (1905) Binet-Simon test? How were they ordered?
5) How were the tasks on the 1908 Binet-Simon test ordered?
6) How do individual tests of intelligence differ from group intelligence tests?
7) On the 1916 Stanford-Binet, what was the criterion used for including an item on the test?
8) What was the ratio IQ?
9) Define basal age and ceiling age.
10) On the 1960 Stanford-Binet, what replaced the ratio IQ score?
11) For the 4th Edition of the Stanford-Binet (SB-IV), you need to know what the 3 level-hierarchy refers to.
12) What are the appropriate age ranges for the WAIS-III, WISC-III, WPPSI-R?
13) What are the 3 deviation IQ scores obtained from any Wechsler test? What is the mean and standard deviation for those scores?
14) Describe the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test. What does that test assess? What is the appropriate age range for that test?
15)What is one possibility for low correlations between infant scales and the other scales (i.e., Stanford-Binet, Wechsler tests)?
16) What was the assumption of Gesell and his researchers regarding human development?
17) What is the age range for the Bayley Scales of Infant Development? What are the 3 parts to that scale?
18) Describe the K-ABC. What is the appropriate age range for that test? What are its 4 ‘global' areas of assessment?
19) What is the logic surrounding the development of ‘culture' fair tests?
20) According to the American Psychiatric Association, what are the 3 criteria for a diagnosis of mental retardation?
21) What are the 4 levels of severity in the APA system of classification of mental retardation?
22) How do the classifications of educable, trainable, and severely mentally impaired relate to those 4 levels used by APA?