Iq_Testing

Iq Testing IQ Testing The task of trying to calculate a person’s intelligence has been a goal of psychologists since before the beginning of this century. The Binet-Simon scales were first proposed in 1905 in Paris, France and various sorts of tests have been evolving ever since. One of the important concerns that always arise regarding these tools is what are the tests really measuring' Are they measuring a person’s intelligence' Their ability to perform well on standardized tests' Or just some arbitrary quantity of the person’s IQ' In this paper I will try and answer some of these concerns. When probing the situations around which IQ tests are given and the content of the tests themselves, it becomes apparent that however useful the tests may be for standardizing a group’s intellectual ability, they are not always the best indicator of intelligence. To issue a truly standardized test, the testing environment should be the same for everyone involved. If anything has been learned from the psychology of perception, it is clear that a person’s environment has a great deal to do with their cognitive abilities. Is the light tests, intelligence, person’s, iq, test, standardized, testing, everyone, different, always, way, vocabulary, should, really, perform, environment, been, because, two, traits, tools, task, speed, social, since, same, results, reading, problem, placed, physical, others, often, obvious, much