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Chapter 11
vocabulary
| Vocabulary | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Test | a method of assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them to those of others, using numerical scores |
| Mental Age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet |
| Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test |
| IQ | Intelligence Quotient |
| Intelligence Quotient | ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 |
| Intelligence | capacity for goal-directed and adaptive behavior |
| Factor Analysis | statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test |
| g | General Intelligence |
| General Intelligence | factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities |
| Savant Syndrome | condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an amazing specific skill |
| Social Intelligence | the know-how involved in comprehending social situations and managing oneself successfully |
| Emotional Intelligence | ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions |
| Aptitude Test | a test designed to predict a person’s future performance |
| Achievement Test | a test designed to assess what a person has learned |
| WAIS | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale | most widely used intelligence test |
| 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 |
| Reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results |
| Validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is suppose to |
| Content Validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest |
| Criterion | behavior (such as college grades) that a test (such as the SAT) is designed to predict |
| Mental Retardation | a condition of limited mental ability |
| Down Syndrome | retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in genetic make-up |
| Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
| Heritability | the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes |
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