Why Does the Predictive Validity of General Aptitude Tests Decrease

question 41

Multiple Choice

Why does the predictive validity of general aptitude tests decrease as the educational experience of the students who take them increases?

• A) More educated students have taken aptitude tests so frequently that for them such tests are no longer pure measures of aptitude.
• B) Comparisons of mental age with chronological age are inadequate for assessing the aptitude of older and more educated students.
• C) There is a relatively narrow range of aptitude test scores among students at higher educational levels.
• D) Among more educated students,motivation has a much greater effect on academic success than does aptitude.

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Definitions:

Inferiority Feelings

Emotions or sensations of being lesser or inadequate compared to others, which can impact self-esteem and motivate compensatory actions or overcompensations.

Genetically Determined

Something that is genetically determined is influenced or controlled by genes and inherited from one's parents.

Overbearing Parents

Parents who exert excessive control over their children's lives, often leading to a lack of independence and self-efficacy in the child.

Compensation

A defense mechanism where individuals overachieve in one area to make up for deficiencies in another.