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SI chap. 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing with others |
| Intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
| General intelligence (g) | a general intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test |
| Factor analysis | a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test |
| Savant syndrome | a condition where a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill |
| Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
| Emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions |
| Mental age | a measured intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance |
| Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test |
| Intelligence quotient (IQ) | defined as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 |
| Achievement test | a test designed to asses what a person has learned |
| Aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | most widely used intelligence test |
| Standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested 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 supposed to |
| Content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest |
| Predictive validity | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict |
| Mental retardation | a condition of limited mental ability indicated by an intelligence scores of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life |
| Down syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra cope of chromosome 21 |
| Stereotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative sterotype |
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