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Leach PSY chapter 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| achievement | knowledge and skills gained from experience and education |
| intelligence | the capacity to learn from experience, solve problems, and adapt to a a changing environment |
| mental age | the level of intellectual functioning |
| intelligence quotient | the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 |
| transformed score | a score that has been changed from a raw score in a systematic way |
| reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results |
| test-retest reliability | a method for determining the reliability of a test by comparing a test taker's scores on the same test taken on separate occasions |
| validity | the extent to which a test measures what it is suppose to measure |
| mental retardation | intellectual functioning that is below average, as indicated by an intelligence score at or below 70 |
| gifted | a term used to describe children with IQ scores above 130 or children with outstanding talent for performing at much higher levels than others of the same age and background |
| creativity | the ability to invent new solutions to problems or to create original or ingenious materials |
| heritability | the proportion of variation among individuals that can be attributed to genes |
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