The Measurement of Intelligence. Lewis M. Terman

for Year X

      1 Vocabulary (30 definitions, 5400 words) 255

      2 Detecting absurdities 255

      3 Drawing designs from memory 260

      4 Reading for eight memories 262

      5 Comprehension, fourth degree 268

      6 Naming sixty words 272

      7 Alternative test 1: Repeating six digits 277

      8 Alternative test 2: Repeating twenty to twenty-two syllables 277

      9 Alternative test 3: Healy’s Construction Puzzle A 278

      CHAPTER XVII

       Instructions for Year XII

      1 Vocabulary (40 definitions, 7200 words) 281

      2 Defining abstract words 281

      3 The ball-and-field test (superior plan) 286

      4 Dissected sentences 286

      5 Interpretation of fables (score 4) 290

      6 Repeating five digits reversed 301

      7 Interpretation of pictures 302

      8 Giving similarities, three things 306

      CHAPTER XVIII

       Instructions for Year XIV

      1 Vocabulary (50 definitions, 9000 words) 310

      2 Induction test: finding a rule 310

      3 Giving differences between a president and a king 313

      4 Problem questions 315

      5 Arithmetical reasoning 319

      6 Reversing hands of a clock 321

      7 Alternative test: Repeating seven digits 322

      CHAPTER XIX

       Instructions for “Average Adult”

      1 Vocabulary (65 definitions, 11,700 words) 324

      2 Interpretation of fables (score 8) 324

      3 Differences between abstract terms 324

      4 Problem of the enclosed boxes 327

      5 Repeating six digits reversed 329

      6 Using a code 330

      7 Alternative test 1: Repeating twenty-eight syllables 332

      8 Alternative test 2: Comprehension of physical relations 333

      CHAPTER XX

       Instructions for “Superior Adult”

      1 Vocabulary (75 definitions, 13,500 words) 338

      2 Binet’s paper-cutting test 338

      3 Repeating eight digits 340

      4 Repeating thought of passage 340

      5 Repeating seven digits reversed 345

      6 Ingenuity test 345

      SELECTED REFERENCES 349

      INDEX 359

FIGURES AND DIAGRAMS

       Table of Contents

      1 Distribution of Mental Ages of 62 Normal Adults 55

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