AP Psychology Intelligence Study Set

Question 1

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pre-tested group

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Standardization

Question 2

Theory that there are 7 primary types of intelligence, word fluency, verbal comprehension, spacial visualization, facility with numbers, memory reasoning, and perceptual speed

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Thurston’s primary mental abilities theory

Question 3

Involves testing the same individuals twice but giving a different version on the retake date

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Alternate Form Reliability

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Refers to whether a test is really evaluating an abstract psychological or theoretical idea

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Construct Validity

Question 5

Evaluates how well a test measures the total meaning of the concept and if it’s a reasonably representative of the material it is evaluating

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Content Validity

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A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score

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Factor Analysis

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Involves checking for consistency between the scores on 2 halves of the same test, which can mean comparing the 1st half to the second half or even, even to odd

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Split-Half Reliability

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Refers to how well test results relate to another measure of what you are evaluating or how well they predict success in the future

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Predictive Validity

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A Self-Confirming concern that will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

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Stereotype Threat

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invented IQ

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William Stern

Question 11

Proposes that people are not born with all of the intelligence that they will ever have

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Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory

Question 12

degree to which the score on one measure correlates to the score to another measure given at the same time

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Concurrent validity

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The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations

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Flynn Effect

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Those who demonstrate advanced ability or potential in one or more specific areas

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Gifted

Question 15

Independent raters will evaluate something and their evaluations will be similar

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Interrater Reliability

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Proposed intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities

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LL Thurstone

Question 17

Proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence

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Robert Sternberg

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Proposed that intelligence consisted of both general intelligence and another type of intelligence

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Charles Spearman

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Published the first measure of intelligence in 1905, which was made to place students correctly in the french school system

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Alfred Binet

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A belief that leads to it’s own fulfillment

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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.

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Savant Syndrome

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A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score 70 or below and difficult in adapting to demands of life; varies from mild to profound

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Intelligence Disability

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The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

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A condition of intellectual disability and associated psychological disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21

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Down Syndrome

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Computed by having the same individuals take the same test at 2 different times

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Test-Retest Reliability

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Intelligence tests that are intended to be culturally unbiased; they contain material that is equally familiar to people who differ in ethnicity, native language, or immigrant statues

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Culture-Fair Tests

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Standardized tests that are designed to compare and rank test takers in relation to one another

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Norm Referenced Tests

Question 28

The most widely used intelligence tests, consisting of 11 sub-tests broken into verbal and performance skills

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Wechsler Intelligence Scale (Adult and Children)

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Proposed that intelligence consists of 3 parts including creative, analytic and practical

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Sternbergs Triarchic Theory

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Revision of the Binet-Simon test made by Lewis Terman, adapted so teenagers and adults could take it

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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test

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Theorized that a general intelligence factor underlies other, more specific aspects of intelligence

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Spearmans Theory of Intelligence

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Study the methods and techniques used to aquire psychological knowledge

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Psychometric Psychologists

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A measure of intelligence performance devised by Binet; The chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance

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Mental Age

Question 34

Another Image that overrides the lingering afterimage of the incomplete stimulus

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Masking Image

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Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

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Intelligence

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The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes

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Heritability

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Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late childhood

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Fluid Intelligence

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Our accumulate knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age

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Crystallized intelligence

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A type of intelligence that is demonstrated in reacting adaptively to novel situations and generating novel ideas

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Creative Intelligence

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The first test of intelligence, developed for testing children. 30 tests arranged in order or increasing difficulty

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Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale

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Test’s designed to predict a person’s future performances

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Aptitude Tests

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Test’s designed to assess what a persons has learned

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Achievement Tests