Unit 11 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Testing an individuals mental aptitudes and comparing them with others
Intelligence Test
Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence
Intelligence that underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test
General Intelligence
Statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test
Factor Analysis
Viewing an abstract, immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing
Reification
When a person is limited in mental ability, but has an exceptional specific skill
Savant Syndrome
Assessed by intelligence tests, which present well-defined problems having one answer
Analytical Intelligence
Demonstrated in reacting adaptively to novel stimulation and generating novel ideas
Creative Intelligence
Required for everyday tasks
Practical Intelligence
Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
Emotional Intelligence
Level of performance typically associated with a chronological age
Mental Age
The widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test
Stanford-Binet
A persons mental age/chronological age x 100
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Tests designed to assess what a person has learned
-Ex: A quiz
Achievement Test
Tests designed to predict someone’s future performance or their capacity to learn
Aptitude Test
Most widely used intelligence test, contains verbal and performance subtests
WAIS
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
Standardization
Symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data
Normal Curve
How consistent scores are
Reliability
How predictable scores are
Validity
How a test samples the behavior that is of interest
Content Validity
How successful a test predicts the behavior its designed to predict
Predictive Validity
Condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score (IQ) of 70 or below
Intellectual Disability
Condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome
Down Syndrome
