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Intelligence
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Achievement Tests | tests designed to assess what a person has learned |
| Alfred Binet | created the measure of mental age to help identify French schoolchildren that would benefit from added resources at school |
| aptitude tests | tests designed to predict a person's future performance; determines the capacity to learn |
| Charles Spearman | believed that there was one general intelligence (g) and several specific intelligences (s), but that your g would impact performance in many areas |
| content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior of interest |
| crystallized intelligence | our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age |
| David Weschler | Used verbal and non-verbal measures to create the 2 most widely-used intelligence tests in USA; WAIS for adults and WISC for kids |
| Down Syndrome | a conditional of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 |
| emotional intelligence | the ability to percieve, understand, manage, and use emotions |
| factor analysis | a stats procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlies a total score |
| fluid intelligence | our ability to reason speedily abstractly. Tends to decrease during late adulthood |
| Francis Galton | 1st to theorize that intelligences comes from good genes; wrote Hereditary Genius |
| general intelligence (g) | a general intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every task on an intelligence test |
| Howard Gardner | creator of the theory of 8 multiple intelligences |
| intelligence quotient | defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age x 100 |
| Lewis Terman | 1st to adopt IQ score; he edited and updated Binet's test & released in US |
| predictive validity | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; assessed by computing correlation between test scores and their criterion behavior |
| Robert Sternberg | 3 intelligences - analytical, practical, creative |
| savant syndrome | a condition in which someone otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill |
| Stanford - Binet | the US version of Binet' OG intelligence test |
| stereotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence | most widely used test - contains verbal and performance subtests |
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