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Chapter 7Intelligenc
PSY
| G or G-factor | The single, general facor for mental ability assumed tounderlie intelligence in some early theories of intelligence. |
| Fluid Intelligence | Intelligence that reflects information-processing capabilities, reasoning, and memory. |
| Crystallized Intelligence | The accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that are learned through experience and can be applied in problem-solving situatons. |
| Theory of multiple intelligence | Gardner's intelligence theory that proposes that thereare eight distinct spheres of intelligence. |
| Practical Intelligence | According to Sternberg, intelligence related to overall success in living. |
| Emotional Intelligence | The set of skills that underlie the accurate assessment, evaluation, expression, and regulation of emotions. |
| Intelligence Test | Test devised to quantify a person's level of intelligence. |
| Mental Age | The average age of individuals who achieve a particular level of performance on a test. |
| Intelligence Quotient (IQ) | A score that takes into account an individual's mental and chronological ages. |
| Achievement Test | A test designed to determine a person's level of knowledge in a given subject area. |
| Aptitude Test | A test designed to predict a person's ability in a particular area or line of work. |
| Reliability | The property by which tests measure consistently what they are trying to measure |
| Validity | The property by which test actually measure what they are supposed to measure |
| Norms | Standards of test performance that permit the comparison of one person's of other individuals who have taken the same test. |
| Mental Retardation (Intellectual Disabilities) | A condition characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning nd in conceptual,social, and practical adaptive skils. |
| Fetal Alcohol syndrome | A major cause of mental retardation in newborns, occurring when the mother ses alcohol during pregnancy |
| Familial Retardation | Mental retardation in which no apparent biological defect exists, but there is a history of retardaton in the family |
| Intellectually Gifted | The 2% t 4% of the population who have IQ scores greater than 130. |
| Culture-fair IQ test | A test that oes not discriminate against the members of any minority group |
| Heritability | A measure of the degess to which a characteristic is related to genetic, inherited factors. |
| Intelligence | The capacity to understand the world, tink rationally, and use resources effectively when faced with challenges |
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