INFANT INTELLIGENCE TESTS: THEIR USE AND MISUSE1

Breastfeeding and Infant Intelligence

Introduction The development of human beings, like any other organisms, is affected by the method and means of feeding. Breastfeeding has many undisputed benefits recognized across the board by the medical community. However, modern life makes it that physical breastfeeding effects are not an issue of life or death, or even keeping serious illnesses away (Christakis, 2013). Consequently, women ...

Scholastic and Intelligence Tests.

Use of Brief Intelligence Tests in the Identification of Giftedness

Schools often administer brief intelligence tests as the first step in the identification of students who are cognitively gifted. However, brief measures are often used without consideration of underlying constructs or the psychometric properties of the measures and without regard to the links between screening decisions and educational programming. This article provides an overview of these is...

Tests of Machine Intelligence

Although the definition and measurement of intelligence is clearly of fundamental importance to the field of artificial intelligence, no general survey of definitions and tests of machine intelligence exists. Indeed few researchers are even aware of alternatives to the Turing test and its many derivatives. In this paper we fill this gap by providing a short survey of the many tests of machine i...

Electrophysiological Tests and Their Use in the Assessment of Pseudohypacusis

AIM OF THE CHAPTER To evaluate the usefulness of the electrophysiological tests available, specifically auditory evoked potentials, in the audiological evaluation of pseudohypacusic patients. The main question addressed is: what contribution electrophysiological tests can make to the detection of pseudohypacusis and the determination of thresholds in the difficult-to-test population of mine wor...