Project Title: Intelligence Testing: Science or a Social Construct?
BASIS Advisor: Ms. Bennett
Internship Location: Small Brooklyn Psychology
Onsite Mentor: Dr. Mandi White-Ajmani
My Posts
Week 11: Presentation Shenanigans
Jun 09, 2022
Hi! For this week, I have been working on my final presentation for next week. In terms of the presentation breakdown, I definitely want to ensure I have a solid introduction into the world of neuropsych and neuropsychological evaluations before I proceed with the research I conducted. In relation to other scientific topics, I think […]
Week 10: Deliverable and Finally Results
Jun 03, 2022
Hello! This week has been an extremely exciting week for me, I have completed so many checkpoints and I’m beginning to work on my final presentation. I have completed the statistical analysis for all 3 of my subgroups this week. Because of my very minimal statistics knowledge, I not only had to learn about the […]
Week 9: Statistics and Considerable Textbook Reading
May 27, 2022
Hello! After a very busy week I am working on finalizing which demographic factors to measure against IQ, and I have settled upon 3 different categories: primary language, which I have divided into English speakers and multilingual individuals, race/ethnicity, which I am currently working on categorizing, and of course, socio-economic status, broken down into three […]
Week 7+8: Reading and Analyzing
May 19, 2022
Hello! I have finally finished recording and charting all the data for this project and sadly, I did not get to 200 data points. I ended up with 100 data points, but among those, I have decided to only use the data points that used the WISC-IV as the measure of general intellectual functioning. The […]
Week 6: Continuing
May 08, 2022
Hello! This week I have been continuing to work on data collection. I spoke to Dr. Mandi on the different ways to potentially extract economic information from the data that I can collect. We determined that the best way to gain this information would be to add a couple of points, including whether the patient […]
Week 5: Minor Complications
Apr 29, 2022
Welcome back to my project. At Small Brooklyn Psychology, I know most of the staff and faculty who work but I work closest with and shadow Dr. Mandi (she is usually the one who assigns me tasks to help out the clinic). However, she has been on (a much deserved) vacation so while I have […]
Week 4: Charting Data
Apr 25, 2022
Hello! I finally created my massive data collection spreadsheet that encompasses both demographic information and IQ examination results. Something that I found particularly convenient is that at Small Brooklyn, whenever anyone gets a neuropsych evaluation, they almost always include an IQ examination, which means there are probably hundreds of different data points that I may […]
Week 3: Hands-On Work
Apr 15, 2022
Hello! This week was actually extremely productive for me as I was able to sit in on a neuropsych evaluation. It was my first time observing how the data for the WISC is actually collected. The WISC, or the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, tests a child’s intellectual functioning in the form of 5 different […]
Week 2: Data Extraction Ideas
Apr 08, 2022
Welcome back. This week was a pretty standard one. Small Brooklyn is currently transitioning between data collection platforms, and the work I did this week helped ease that transition; this involved handling credit cards and learning about diagnostic codes. I thought it was particularly interesting to note the most frequent diagnoses, which included general anxiety […]
Week 1: Getting Acquainted & the Complexities of Psychometrics
Apr 01, 2022
Welcome back! Over the past week I have been quickly immersed into the world of psychology and neuropsychology. As someone relatively new to data collection in the psychology field, I discovered that providing a client with a diagnosis requires a much more in depth and lengthy period of observation than I had previously thought. I […]
Week 0: An Introduction to Me and My Project
Mar 18, 2022
Hello everybody! My name is Katie Hon, I have been a BASIS Independent Brooklyn student since 6th grade and welcome to my Senior Project Blog! I have always found myself interested in how the brain functions. The connection between physiology and functionality has always been something that has fascinated me, and recently with an introduction […]