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Module 37-38Ap Psych
Module 37-38 Ap Psych Unit 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intelligence | the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
| General Intelligence (g) | according to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test |
| Factor analysis | according to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test |
| L.L. Thurstone's research | tested 56 people different tests and mathematically identified seven clusters of primary mental abilities |
| Howard Gardner | identified 8 relatively independent intelligence |
| Savant Syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill such as in computation or drawing |
| Sternberg's 3 Intelligence | Analytical intelligence, Creative intelligence, Practical intelligence |
| Grit | passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals |
| 4 abilities of emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions |
| Intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores |
| Achievement test | a test designed to assess what a person has learned |
| Aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance |
| Francis Galton | beloved in hereditary genius |
| Hereditary genius | inheritance of genius |
| Alfred Binet | believed Predicting School Achievement |
| Predicting School Achievement | purposely constructed the first tests to predict school achievement |
| Mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet |
| Lewis Terman | believed in measuring innate intelligence |
| Measuring Innate Intelligence | proposed using IQ tests to classify children and put them on the appropriate job-track |
| Stanford Binet | the widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test |
| Intelligence quotient (IQ) | defined originally as the ratio mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 |
| David Wechsler | believed testing Separate Strengths |
| Testing Separate Strengths | most widely used individual intelligence test |
| Wechsler Adukt Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | the most widely used intelligence test and performance subtest |
| Standardization | defining uniform testing performance and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group |
| Normal Curve | the bell-shaped cure describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes |
| Reliability | the extent to which a test yields constant results |
| Split-half reliability | agreement of odd-question scores and even-question scores |
| Test-retest reliability | a property exhibited by a test on which people get about the same scores when they take the test more than once |
| Validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
| Content validity | the extent to which a test sample the behavior that is of interest |
| Predictive validity | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict |
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