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Ap Psych, Testing
Chapter 11, AP Psychology, Testing
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve rpoblems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
| factor analysis | a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test, used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score |
| general intelligence | a general intelligence factor that Spearman and other believed underlies specific mental abilites and is therefore measure by every task on an intelligence test |
| savant syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exception specific skill, such as in computation or drawing |
| emotional intelligence | the ability to percieve, express, understand,and regulate emotions |
| creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
| apititude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance |
| achievement test | a test designed to asses what a person has learned |
| Wechsler Intelligence Scale | the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subjects |
| stardardization | defining meaningful scores by comparision with the performance of a pertested "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 consisten results, as assesed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate formns 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 |
| criterion | the behavior (such as college grades) that a test (such as the SAT) is designed to predict |
| predictive validity | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict |
| mental retardation | a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intellignce score below 70 and difficulty in adapting to the demainds of life |
| Down syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosone in one's genetic makeup |
| sterotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based ona negative sterotype |
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