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