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Psychology Eighth Edition by David G. Myers

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show a general intelligence factor that according to Spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and therefore measured by every task on an intelligence task.  
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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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Creative Intelligence   show
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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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Practical Intelligence   show
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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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Stanford-Binet   show
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IQ   show
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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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show the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (non-verbal) subtests.  
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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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show the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two half’s of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on re-testing.  
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show the extent to which test measures or predicts what its suppose to.  
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show the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest, such as driving test.  
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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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Stereotype Threat   show
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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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show was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at Stanford University.  
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