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Psychology Eighth Edition by David G. Myers

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General Intelligence (g) (Charles Spearman)   show
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show a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.  
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show supports the idea that intelligence comes in different packages.  
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show Triarchic Theory. Creative, Analytical, and Practical  
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show demonstrated in reacting adaptively to novel situations and generating novel ideas.  
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show academic problem solving; assessed by intelligence tests, which present well-defined problems having a single right answer.  
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show often required for everyday tasks, which are frequently ill defined, with multiple solutions.  
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Emotional Intelligence   show
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Intelligence Test   show
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Mental Age   show
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show the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet’s original intelligence test.  
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show defined originally as the ration of mental age (MA) to chronological age (CA) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ=MA/CA x100).  
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show a test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.  
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Achievement Test   show
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Weshler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)   show
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show defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pre-tested standardization group.  
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Normal Curve   show
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Reliability   show
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show the extent to which test measures or predicts what its suppose to.  
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Content Validity   show
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show the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior: (SAT’s). AKA criterion-related validity.  
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show a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.  
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show French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, known at that time as Binet test basically today called IQ test.  
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Lewis Terman   show
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