Author explained what the quotient in IQ stands for, whether the IQ changes, how to relate IQ to other factors, and its future in measuring human intelligence and personality development. (RK)

Author investigated the meaning of creativity in children in terms of tests designed to measure creative ability. (RK)

This study found that both motor abilities and learning abilities are involved in the determination of Animal House performance. (EK)

The effects of stress associated with the administration of four commonly used tests of personality and intellectual assessment on measures of state and trait anxiety were assessed. (Author/BJG)

THE RELEVANCE OF INTELLIGENCE TESTS FOR EDUCATIONAL USES IS CHALLENGED ON TWO GROUNDS--(1) TESTS WHICH MERELY PREDICT THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE SUCCESS DO NOT PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO PRESCRIBE TREATMENTS TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE, AND (2) INTELLIGENCE IS NOT DEFINED AND HENCE THE INTERPRETATION OF SCORES IS MISLEADING. IT IS…

AS A PHASE OF A STUDY OF THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ABILITY TESTING, A NATIONAL STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE OF 1,482 ADULTS WAS INTERVIEWED. OF THE RESPONDENTS, 59 PERCENT REPORTED AT LEAST ONE EXPERIENCE WITH A TEST OF APTITUDE OR INTELLIGENCE. WHILE THEY SAID THEY WERE RELATIVELY WELL INFORMED ABOUT TEST RESULTS THEY CONSIDERED SUCH TESTS AS LESS…

Evidence of a relationship between the electrical responses of the human brain and psychometric measure of intelligence is presented. These involuntary cortical responses, known as average evoked potentials are considered to be the electrical signs of information processing by the brain. The time delays of these responses from presentation of a…

The basic problem under investigation was the determination of empirical relationships between two models, developed by Piaget and Loyola University and employed in the assessment of cognitive processes in a problem solving context. Among objectives explored were: (1) investigation of the sensitivity of the intelligence test in distinguishing…

The purposes of this study were to investigate adolescent intellectual decline, and to attempt to determine some of the sexual differences possibly inherent in the phenomenon. It was hypothesized that (1) girls would decline in greater numbers and to a greater degree than boys; and (2) areas and amounts of sex differences of the decliners would…

Scores, hypothesized abilities and Scales on the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests (LT), Multi-Level Edition, were intercorrelated and factor analyzed to determine overlap of structure-of-intellect (SOI) ability measure, their degree of relationship with LT scales, and the possible presence of second order factors. (Author/BJG)

The author discusses some controversial issues in regard to IQ testing and the relationship between intelligence and race. (IM)

Stanford-Binet results of 36 gifted children of preschool age were classified into categories according to J. Guilford's Structure-of-Intellect (SI) model. (Author)