Lecture # 27

Intelligence Testing

Samira Rafiq
Lecturer Psychology
University of Sahiwal

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 Objectives

• To give the understanding about intelligence.

• To explore the types of intelligence test and its implication.

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 What is Intelligence?

Intelligence is ability to learn from experience, solve problems,

and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

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 Test Of Intelligence:-
French Psychologist, ‘ ALFRED BINET’ the father of intelligence
test construction movement.

1.Individual tests

2. Group tests

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 Individual Intelligence Test
This test can be administrated to only one individual at a time.

Types Of Individual Intelligence Test:-

• Verbal method.
• Non Verbal method.
• Performance test

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 Group Intelligence Test
In this method test can be administrate to a group of individual
at a time. Group intelligence test started during first war for
selecting shoulder in larger number.

Types Of group Intelligence Test:

• Verbal method.
• Non Verbal method.

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Verbal meaning
Thurman’s seven
Perceptual speed primary skills of
intelligence
Reasoning

Number

Rote memory

Word fluency

Spatial
visualization
 Triarchic Theory of Intelligence

Adapt, select, and

shape to needs
Ability to
Encode,
tailor one’s
combine,
behavior to
demands of Exposure
compare
context and
information
practice

Information- IQ Experience
processing with a given
skills task/situation
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Intelligence Tests – Historical Perspective
• Late 1800 – Sir Francis Galton – 1st Attempt to develop a scale

• 1905 – Alfred Binet & Theophile Simon – Binet’s Intelligence

Scale

• 1916 – Lewis Terman Of Stanford University – Stanford Binet’s

Intelligence Scale

• Last Modified In 2003

• no IQ but standardized score
• interpreted in terms of percentiles

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 Intelligence Tests – Historical Perspective
(Cont…)
• 1939 – David Wechsler – Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale.

• 1958 – David Wechsler – Wechsler’s Intelligence Scale For

Children.

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 Intelligence Tests
• Wechsler’s Tests:
• Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale 4th Ed
• Wechsler’s Intelligence Scale For Children 5th Ed
• Wechsler Abbreviated Scale Of Intelligence (Wasi)
• Wechsler Preschool And Primary Scale Of Intelligence, Third
Edition (Wppsi-iii),
• Wechsler Test Of Adult Reading (Wtar)

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 Intelligence Tests (Cont…)
• Wechsler’s Tests

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=XMGF5XV3ubM

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 Intelligence Tests (Cont…)
• Stanford Binet’s Intelligence Scale 5th Ed
• Shipley Scale
• The Test Of Nonverbal Intelligence—3 (Toni-3)
• National Adult Reading Scale
• The Speed And Capacity Of Language Processing Test (Scolp)
• Seguin Form Board Test

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Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale

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 WAIS-IV Subtests

11 subtests, with 3 supplementary scales

• Full scale IQ
• Verbal IQ
• Performance IQ
• Index Scores
– Verbal Comprehension
– Perceptual Organizational
– Working Memory
– Processing Speed
 Verbal Subtests
• Vocabulary (VC)
– Define words
– Best measure of G
• Similarities (VC)
– Tell how two things are alike
– Abstract verbal reasoning
• Information (VC)
– Questions of general knowledge
– Crystalized intelligence
 Verbal Subtests (Cont…)

• Arithmetic (WM)
– Solve arithmetic problems in your head
– Working memory, mathematical reasoning
• Digit Span (WM)
– Repeat a list of numbers forwards and backwards
– Working memory
 Performance Subtests
• Block Design (PO)
– Make designs using colored cubes
– Spatial and nonverbal reasoning
• Matrix Reasoning (PO)
– Given an incomplete pattern, choose from a number of
options how to be complete a picture
– Pattern recognition, non-verbal reasoning
 Performance Subtests (Cont…)
• Digit Symbol Coding (PS)
– Paired associates
– Each number has a mark put the mark that goes with the
number
– Processing speed, learning ability or speed of acquisition
 WAIS-IV Subtests

• Each subtest assesses slightly different mental abilities

• All a measure of G
• Multiple measures that assess multiple abilities provides a
comprehensive measure of a person’s intelligence
• Highly reliable
– Test-retest correlation = .90
 WISC-IV Arithmetic

Similarities Letter-number sequencing

Vocabulary Picture completion

Information Comprehension

Cancellation Word Reasoning

Block Design Picture concepts

Digit span Matrix reasoning

 Standford Binet Test
• This test can useful for measurement of general
intelligence test.
• It can useful for 2 year to superior adults up to 45 years. It is
very effective only to 16 years. For adults this test result is
not accurate or satisfactory.

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Standford Binet Test (Cont…)

Formula

MA ( Mental Age)
IQ = ------------------------------ X 100
CA (chronological age)

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IQ

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 Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale
(Cont…)
• verbal reasoning
• vocabulary defines words, such as ‘virtue’ and ‘envelope’.
• comprehension
• answers questions, such as ‘where do people buy food?’
and ‘why do people comb their hair?’

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 Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale (Cont…)
• Absurdities
• identifies the ‘funny’ aspect of a picture, such as a girl
riding a bicycle on a lake or a bald man combing his hair.
• Verbal relations
• tells how the first three items in a sequence are alike and
how they differ from the fourth: scarf,
tie, muffler, shirt.

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 Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale
(Cont…)
• Quantitative reasoning
• quantitative performs simple arithmetic tasks, such as
selecting a die with six spots because the number of spots
equals the combination of a two-spot die and a four-spot
die.

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Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale (Cont…)
• Number series
• gives the next two numbers in a series, such as 20 16 12 8
.
• Equation building
• builds an equation from the following array: 2 3 5 + =. one
correct response would be 2 + 3 = 5.

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Questions

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