Historical Context

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Historical Context

• Galton (1822-1911)
• Sensation relationship through use of correlation
• Binet (1857-1911)
• Created first test in 1905 called the Binet
  Simon.
• Mental Age specific abilities should be present
  at specific ages.

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Binet (continued)

• Component of intelligence
• Reasoning
• Judgment
• Memory
• Abstract thought
• Intelligence Quotient
• Ma/ca x 100 IQ

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Binet (continued)

• Hereditarian advocated cephalometry.

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Binet Tests

• Binet-Simon (1905)
• Binet-Simon (1908)
• Stanford-Binet (circa 1923)
• Stanford-Binet (L and M) (1937/1960/1972)
• Stanford-Binet (SBFE) (1986)

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SBFE

• Verbal
• Vocabulary, comprehension, absurdities, verbal
  relations
• Abstract/Visual Reasoning
• Pattern analysis
• Copying
• Matrices
• Paper folding and cutting

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SBFE

• Quantitative reasoning
• Quantitative subtest
• Number series
• Equation building
• Short term memory
• Bead memory, sentence memory, digit memory, and
  object memory

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Wechsler Scales (Adult 16-89)

• Wechsler Bellevue (1939)
• WAIS (1939)
• WAIS Form II (1946)
• WAIS-R (1981)
• WAIS-III (1997)

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WAIS

• VIQ (6 subtests 1 optional)
• PIQ (5 subtests 2 optional)
• FS

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WISC (children 6-16)

• WISC (1949)
• WISC-R (1974)
• WISC-III (1991)

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WPPSI (3-7 years 3 months)

• WPPSI 1967
• WPPSI-R 1989

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Group Intelligence Tests

• Otis Lennon School Ability Test (K-13)
• Verbal and nonverbal scores expressed as school
  ability indexes. Mean of 100 and SD of 16.
• Military tests
• Army alpha (verbal)
• Army beta (nonverbal)
• ASVAB, AFQT