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Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. These activities partly title a 2009 book in which the term “myside processing” was popularized by Keith Stanovich. An example of these activities informed by the PASS theory was co-developed by J. P. Das and Ken Naglieri, the latter of whom also names a nonverbal activity of this kind. A robust statistical finding derived from these activities is called the “positive manifold.” A professor at University of Otago in New Zealand used the phrase “scientific spectacles” to explain a trend involving these activities. About 1,500 people nicknamed “Termites” were chosen via one of these activities. John C. Raven and David Wechsler name examples of these activities, whose high correlation led Charles Spearman to theorize a latent g-factor. For 10 points, a global improvement over time called the Flynn effect impacts scores from what evaluations? ■END■
ANSWER: intelligence tests [or IQ tests; or intelligence quotient tests; or cognitive ability tests; or cognitive skills tests; or spatial reasoning tests; or giftedness tests; accept What Intelligence Tests Miss; accept Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; accept answers with testing or evaluation or assessment in place of “tests”; prompt on tests or evaluations or assessments by asking “of what?”; prompt on Raven’s progressive matrices by asking “What activity are those designed for?”] (The “positive manifold” is the strong positive correlation between results of tests of any cognitive ability.)
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