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Ap vocab 6
ap psych vocab 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Intelligence | as the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations |
| Factor Analysis | is a statistical procedure that identifies factors, or clusters of related items, that seem to define a common ability. |
| General Intelligence | according to spearman and others, is a general factor that underlies each of the more specific mental abilities identified through factor analysis |
| Savant Syndrome | has a very low intelligence score, yet possesses one exceptional ability, For ex. in music or drawing |
| Emotional Intelligence | is the ability t perceive. manage, understand, and use emotions |
| creativity | refers to an ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. |
| Intelligence Tests | meaure peoples mental aptitudes and compare them to others' through numeical scores |
| Mental Age | is the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance |
| Stanford-Binet | is lewis terman widely used revision of Binets original intelligence test |
| Itelligence Quotient (IQ) | as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 |
| Aptitude Test | are designd to predict future performance. they measure your capacity to learn new information, rather than measuring what you already know |
| Achievement Tests | measure a persons current knowledge |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | is the most widely used intelligence tests. it is individually administered, contins 11 subtests, and yields separate verbal and performance intelligence scores, as well as an overall intelligence score |
| Standardization | is the process of defining meaningful scores by comparison with a pretested standardization group |
| Normal Curve | shaped curve that repersents the distriution (frequency of occurrence) of many physical and psychological attributes. |
| Reliability | is the extent to which a test produces consistent results |
| validity | is the degree to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to |
| Content Validity | A test is the extent to which it samples the behavior that is of interest |
| Criterion | is the behavior the test is designed to predict |
| Predictive Validity | is the extent to which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; also called criterion-related validity |
| Mental Retardation | are an IQ below 70 and difficulty adaption to the normal demands of independent living |
| Down Syndrome | is the usually the result of an extra chromosome in the presons genetic make-up |
| Heritability | is the proportion of varitation among idividuals in a trait that is attributable to genetic factors |
| Stereotype Threat | is the phenomenon in which a persons concern tat he or she will be evaluated based onnegatice stereotype (as on an aptitude test, for example) is actually followed by lower perfromance |