Exam 5: Theories and Individual Tests of Intelligence and Achievement

Evidence for validity of the KBIT-II can be characterized as:

This subtest is found to be highly sensitive to the effects of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury.

Statistically speaking, a factor is

With_________- rotations, it is also possible to factor analyze the factors themselves.

Next to Binet and Simon, the one individual who has had the greatest influence upon the testing of individual intelligence is

Subtests from the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II assess all of the following EXCEPT

This subtest evaluates the examinee's ability to distinguish important from unimportant resemblances in objects, facts, and ideas.

This test is suitable for children age 2 through adults age 85+.

The purpose of factor analysis is to:

With orthogonal axes, the factors are

This is the first intelligence test to consider religious tradition as a variable in the selection of normative subjects.

A particular kind of factor can emerge from factor analysis

What is the most important distinction between the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities NJCLD) definition of learning disability and the federal definition?

"The mental capacity to automatize information processing and to emit contextually appropriate behavior in response to novelty" was the definition of intelligence offered by

With oblique axes, the factors are

The_______ subtest has the highest correlation with overall IQ.

If a examinee is shown a picture of a completed shape and asked to select from six smaller shapes the three that could be used to assemble the larger completed shape, what subtest of the WAIS-IV is the examinee taking?

On the WAIS-III, this subtest requires the examinee to interpret proverbs.

This subtest is strongly speeded, that is, adults must perform very quickly to get maximum scores.

The_______ definition of intelligence does not allow for the possibility that new tests or conceptions of intelligence may be superior to old ones.