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module 60 61 unit 11
Intelligence
| Question | answer |
|---|---|
| the ability to learn | intelligence |
| according to Spearman, underlies all mental abilities and therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test | general intelligence |
| procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test | factor analysis |
| condition where someone has limited mental ability but excels with a specific skill | savant syndrome |
| passion and perseverance to pursuit a goal | grit |
| the ability to perceive understand and manage emotions | emotional intelligence |
| assessment of ones mental aptitudes | intelligence test |
| tests what someone has already learned | achievement test |
| predicts a person's future performance | aptitude test |
| measure of intelligence test performance, associated with the persons age | mental age |
| widely used revision of the IQ test | Standford- Binet |
| originally ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 | intelligence quotient |
| most widely used intelligence test | WAIS |
| defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the [performance of a pretested group | standardization |
| the extent to which a test gives consistent results, assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test on alternative forms of the test or retaking it | reliability |
| the extent to which a test measures or predicts what is is supposed to | validity |
| the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of intrest | content validity |
| 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 | predictive validity |