Who Is This Person and What Was His Major Contribution

question 193

Multiple Choice

Who is this person and what was his major contribution to psychology?

• A)British psychologist Charles Spearman, who proposed that a single factor, the g factor, underlies many different kinds of mental abilities
• B)French psychologist Alfred Binet, who developed the first intelligence test
• C)Lewis Terman, who translated and adapted the Binet-Simon intelligence test for use in the United States
• D)Howard Gardner, whose theory of intelligence states that there is not one intelligence but multiple independent intelligences

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Definitions:

Cohen's D

An indicator of the magnitude of difference, displaying the standardized deviation between two averages.

Cohen's D

A measure of the size of an effect for a hypothesis test; it is the difference between two means divided by the standard deviation of the data.

Cohen's D

A statistic used to quantify the difference between two group means relative to the standard deviation of the sample.

Cohen's D

A measure of effect size that quantifies the difference between two group means in standard deviation units.