Unit 11 Vocab

Question 0

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

Question 1

A method for asserting an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.

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Intelligence test

Question 2

A factor that, according to spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

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General intelligence (g)

Question 3

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’a total score

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Factor analysis

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

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Emotional intelligence

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

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Mental age

Question 7

The widely used American test of binet’s original intelligence test.

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Stanford-Binet

Question 8

Defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100( thus iq= ma/ca • 100) . On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.

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Intelligent quotient (IQ)

Question 9

Tests designed to assess what a person had learned.

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Achievement tests

Question 10

Tests designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.

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Aptitude tests

Question 11

The WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Question 12

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

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Standardization

Question 13

The symmetrical, bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.

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Normal curve

Question 14

The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on retesting.

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Reliability

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The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

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Validity

Question 16

The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.

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Content validity

Question 17

The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior.

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Predictive validity

Question 18

( formerly referred to as mental retardation) a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound.

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Intellectual disability

Question 19

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

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Down syndrome

Question 20

A self confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.

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Stereotype threat