One Technical Problem That Arose with the Early Use of Intelligence

question 21

Multiple Choice

One technical problem that arose with the early use of intelligence quotients on tests such as the Stanford-Binet was that

• A) mental age was difficult to accurately determine.
• B) standard deviations were not constant with age.
• C) factor analysis was done by hand and highly subject to error.
• D) None of these

Understand the organization and structure of long-term memory, including the semantic network model.

Recognize the various models and theories of memory, including the information processing model.

Understand the concepts and models of memory storage and processing, including the levels of processing, parallel distributed processing, and information-processing theories.

Differentiate among different types of memory systems (sensory, short-term, long-term) and understand their functions and characteristics.

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Definitions:

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of sample data values.

Variance

A measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean of the set.

Risk

Exposure to uncertainty or potential financial loss; the chance that an investment's actual gains will differ from expected gains.

Consistency

A property of an estimator in statistics that indicates the ability to produce estimates closer to the true parameter value as the sample size increases.