IQ Testing 101 (Psych 101)
Language: English
Pages: 360
ISBN: 0826106293
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Alan Kaufman's informal, accessible writing style never sacrifices precision. In ten short chapters, he provides an astonishing depth and breadth of information, including engaging personal anecdotes that offer fresh and revealing insights even for a very experienced professional in the field..."
--John O. Willis, EdD
Rivier College
Alan Kaufman has a knack for teaching complicated psychological constructs in a way that is simultaneously sophisticated and easily understood. In IQ Testing 101, he applies this gift masterfully to the complex, controversial field of intelligence testing....If you want to know about intelligence testing-real IQ testing, not pop culture tests from the web or magazines, this is the book to read.
-Cecil R. Reynolds, PhD
Emeritus
Texas A&M University
- Does your IQ really measure your intelligence?
- Is IQ genetic?
- Can your IQ vary?
- Do we get smarter or dumber as we get older?
- How will IQ tests be different in the future?
Dr. Kaufman, a leading expert on the development of IQ tests, explores these critical questions and many more in IQ Testing 101. This book provides a brief, compelling introduction to the topic of IQ testing-its mysteries, misconceptions, and truths.
This newest edition to the popular Psych 101 Series presents a common-sense approach to what IQ is and what it is not. In lucid, engaging prose, Kaufman explains the nature of IQ testing, as well as where it came from, and where it's going in the future. A quick, fun, even enlightening read, not only for psychologists and educators, but for anyone interested in the study of intelligence.
The Psych 101 Series
Short, reader-friendly introductions to cutting-edge topics in psychology. With key concepts, controversial topics, and fascinating accounts of up-to-the-minute research, The Psych 101 Series is a valuable resource for all students of psychology and anyone interested in the field.
REVIEWS:
In IQ Testing 101, Alan Kaufman gives a well thought out, articulate account of the historical development of intelligent IQ testing. It provides non-expert readers, like me, with a better understanding of IQ and its important clinical ramifications. Kaufman's engaging style of presentation makes you feel as if you are in the thick of this important field of inquiry...
--Jeffrey W. Kirsch, PhD
Executive Director
Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
This impressive book is replete with meaningful material, wonderful anecdotes, excellent examples, profound truths, and solid empiricism, backed an abundance of clinical experience....This volume provides an outstanding introduction and a great refresher for readers interested in the topic of intelligence and its assessment."
--Bruce A. Bracken, PhD
The College of William & Mary
Professor Kaufman has made this remarkably accessible for all readers by using a personal journey of discovery style. So, whether you are a clinical psychologist or an interested lay person, 101 will tell you everything you wanted to know about IQ testing; don't be afraid to read it."
--Thomas Dillon, PhD
Group Senior Vice President retired
Science Applications International Corporation
Dr. Kaufman's superb writing makes one feel he is in the room talking to you....Psychologists, parents, educators and research scientists could all profit from reading this most important work by a master writer and thinker."
--Sara S. Sparrow, PhD
Yale University Child Study Center
Kaufman provides an outstanding look at the field of intelligence and intelligence testing in a manner that is understandable and at the same time very sophisticated....with a marvelous mixture of science, good sense, his own experience as a test developer, and a dose of humor.
--Jack A. Naglieri, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Devereux Center for Resilient Children
IQ Testing 101 is a must read for anyone (including IQ test administrators) looking for a clear, erudite, thought provoking, even entertaining introduction to the important issues surrounding IQ including the definitions, measurements, and development of human intelligence. So much is at stake with IQ testing and these ideas cannot be ignored. "
--Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD (unrelated)
Yale University, Dept of Psychology
Co-Editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence (with Robert J. Sternberg)
[T]his book will find its way into many college syllabi, not only because of the depth and breath of its coverage, but because of the wonderful way in which Dr Kaufman is able to make a difficult, often misunderstood topic so clear and thoroughly enjoyable."
--Ron Dumont, EdD, NCSP
Director of the Masters and Doctoral Programs in School Psychology
Fairleigh-Dickinson University
This essentially tiny volume manages to cover the history of intelligence measurement, genetic versus environmental sources of intelligence, controversial issues in psychometrics and usage, summaries of research on cognitive profiles of specific populations, the future of the IQ construct, and measurement of cognitive abilities in general. To get that much perspective into such small print space requires an experienced and objective author and Alan Kaufman manages the task very well."
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assessed is to decide whether to go to law school or medical school. Dr. Wechsler was taking notes all over his napkin and all I could think of was that I wanted to eat some steak and salad.1 Wechsler always had his eye on the future, which is one reason he was so successful. The Stanford-Binet started to plunge in popularity when professionals demanded a profile of abilities instead of just a global IQ. In addition to three IQs, Wechsler offered separate scores on 10 or more specific subtests;
ill, brain damaged, or at least a little quirky? Is Daryl Atkins, a convicted murderer, smart enough to be executed for his crime? I’m not finding fault with group IQ tests. It’s simply that group IQ tests, the kind most of us are familiar with, are quite different from individual IQ tests. Even people who have heard of Wechsler’s tests have a preconception that they are paper-andpencil tests, and I want to break that association. Try to start thinking of IQ tests as personal experiences, where
the same percentage above 130. If someone ever invented a pill that raised everyone’s IQ by about 30 points, the lowest 2 ¼% would still be considered intellectually disabled. And the bar for qualifying as gifted would be raised considerably but that elite group would still constitute 2 ¼% of the population. It’s simply built into the IQ-asstandard-score concept, and we can’t escape it. But the normal curve has some advantages that make standard scores neat statistics; for example, they possess
Ability Is (Little More Than) Working Memory Capacity?!” Jason also scored remarkably consistently on both tests in his crystallized and verbal abilities (Knowledge/Gc = 115; VCI = 114). Working memory is illustrated FIGURE 5.2 Standard scores earned by Jason (IQs about 120), Lizzy (IQs about 100), and Mei-I (IQs about 80) on the WISC-IV factor indexes and the KABC-II scales. 167 CHAPTER 5 by Wechsler’s Letter-Number Sequencing subtest in Figure 5.3. The person is read a sequence of
correlating the distance teenagers can kick a soccer ball or toss a football with their fluid or crystallized intelligence. And negative coefficients? On a math test in school, the number of mistakes a student makes will correlate close to –1.00 with the student’s grade on the test. That is to say, as the number of errors goes up, the grade goes down. Negative correlations denote inverse relationships. But don’t confuse “positive” or “negative” correlations with positive or negative outcomes.
