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Psych Ch.11
Intelligence
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intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores |
mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8 |
Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test |
intelligence quotient (IQ) | defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ= ma/ca x 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance fir a given age is assigned a score of 100 |
intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
factor analysis | a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (calles factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score |
general intelligence (g) | a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test |
savant syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as computation or drawing |
emotional intelligence | the ability to percieve, express, understand, and regulate emotions |
creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn |
achievement test | a test designed to assess what a person has learned |
Wechsler Asult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests |
standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested "standardization group" |
normal curve | 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 |
reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting |
validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as driving test that samples driving tasks) |
criterion | the behavior (such as college grades) that a test (such as the SAT) is designed to predict; thus, the measure in used defining whether the test has predictive validity |
predictive validity | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scored and the criterion behavior |
mental retardation | a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score below 70 and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life, varies from mild to profuse |
Down syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic make up |
stereotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype |