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IntelligenceThe Game Of PatienceThe Relation Of The I Q To The Quality Of The Child's School Work Arithmetical Reasoning Giving Differences From Memory How The Scale Was Derived Intelligence Tests Of Retarded School Children Alternative Test 2: Repeating Twenty To Twenty-two Syllables Repeating Five Digits Reversed Reliability Of Repeated Tests Giving The Date Intelligence Tests For Vocational Fitness Superior Adult 6: Ingenuity Test Giving Similarities; Two Things Order Of Giving The Tests The Relation Between I Q And Grade Progress Finding Mental Age Pointing To Parts Of The Body Naming Familiar Objects Are Intelligence Tests Superfluous? Discrimination Of Forms |
Alternative Test: Giving AgePROCEDURE. The formula is simply, "_How old are you?_" The child of this age is, of course, not expected to know the date of his birthday, but merely how many years old he is. SCORING. About the only danger in scoring is in the failure to verify the child's response. Some children give an incorrect answer with perfect assurance, and it is therefore always necessary to verify. REMARKS. Inability to give the age may or may not be significant. If the child has arrived at the age of 7 or 8 years and has had anything like a normal social environment, failure in the test is an extremely unfavorable sign. But if the child is an orphan or has grown up in neglect, ignorance of age has little significance for intelligence. About all we can say is that if a child gives his age correctly, it is because he has had sufficient interest and intelligence to remember verbal statements which have been made concerning him in his presence. He may even pass the test without attaching any definite meaning to the word "year." On the other hand, if he has lived seven or eight years in a normal environment, it is safe to assume that he has heard his age given many times, and failure to remember it would then indicate either a weak memory or a grave inferiority of spontaneous interests, or both. Normal children have a natural interest in the things they hear said about themselves, while the middle-grade imbecile of even 40 years may fail to remember his age, however often he may have heard it stated. Binet placed the test in year VI of the 1908 series, but omitted it altogether in 1911. Kuhlmann and Goddard also omit it, perhaps wisely. Nevertheless, it is always interesting to give as a supplementary test. Children from good homes acquire the knowledge about a year earlier than those from less favorable surroundings. Unselected children of California ordinarily pass the test at 5 years. Next: Distinguishing Right And Left Previous: Three Commissions
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