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Sunday, November 22, 2009

A new lease of life for Thomson's bonds model of intelligence.

29 Jun 2009 Modern factor analysis is the outgrowth of Spearman's original "2-factor" model of intelligence, according to which a mental test score is regarded as the sum of a general factor and a specific factor. As early as 1914, Godfrey Thomson realized that ... Read more...

Using lexical familiarity judgments to assess verbally mediated intelligence in aphasia.

30 Oct 2008 In this study, a task using forced-choice lexical familiarity judgments of irregular versus archaic words (a newly developed measure called the Lexical Orthographic Familiarity Test; LOFT) was compared to a standardized oral word-reading measure ... Read more...

Comparison of four statistical approaches to score child development: a study of Malawian children.

26 Jun 2008 OBJECTIVE: Assessment of child development often results in a multitude of binary outcome data. There is no agreed way to use them to score the developmental status of children. Conventional methods include age-standardized Z-scores and simple sum ... Read more...

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• A new lease of life for Thomson's bonds model of intelligence. 29 Jun 2009
• Identifying adaptive differences could provide insight. 10 Mar 2009
• The arrogance of trying to sum up abilities in a number. 10 Mar 2009
• Using lexical familiarity judgments to assess verbally mediated intelligence in aphasia. 30 Oct 2008
• Comparison of four statistical approaches to score child development: a study of Malawian children. 26 Jun 2008
• The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia. Normative data for the Italian population. 14 May 2008
• Generalist genes and the Internet generation: etiology of learning abilities by web testing at age 10. 16 Dec 2007
• Predictors of failed colonoscopy in nonagenarians: a single-center experience. 30 Mar 2007
• Demand characteristics of music affect performance on the Wonderlic Personnel Test Of Intelligence. 30 Jan 2007
• IQ-based norms for highly intelligent adults. 29 Nov 2006
• Mini-Mental State Examination: a 30-year story. 30 Jul 2006
• Reliability and factorial validity of the standard progressive matrices among Kuwaiti children ages 8 to 15 years. 29 Sep 2005
• The benefits of aptitude testing for selecting medical students. 8 Sep 2005
• Intellectual aptitude tests and A levels for selecting UK school leaver entrants for medical school. 8 Sep 2005
• Mayo's Older Americans Normative Studies: Age- and IQ-Adjusted Norms for the Trail-Making Test, the Stroop Test, and MAE Controlled Oral Word Association Test. 30 Aug 2005
• Mayo's Older Americans Normative Studies: Age- and IQ-Adjusted Norms for the Boston Naming Test, the MAE Token Test, and the Judgment of Line Orientation Test. 30 Aug 2005
• [An enquiry into the WILDE-Intelligence-Test (WIT): comparability of application of the paper-pencil-version vs. the computer based application -- an analysis based on data of the Leipzig Vocational Retraining Center] 30 Jul 2005
• The importance of converging operations in the study of human intelligence. 30 Mar 2005
• Frontal brain changes and cognitive performance in old age. 30 Mar 2005
• Uncertainty about the biology of intelligence: a role for a marker task. 30 Mar 2005

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Technical information about 'Intelligence Tests'

Definition: Standardized tests that measure the present general ability or aptitude for intellectual performance.

Descriptor UI: D007361

Alternative terms: Intelligence Tests; Intelligence Test; Test, Intelligence; Tests, Intelligence; Mental Tests; Mental Test; Test, Mental; Tests, Mental;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.711.141.493;