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A method for assessing and individuals mental aptitude and comparing them to those of others using number scores
Intelligence test
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence
The general intelligence factor that, according to spearmen and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is there for measured by every task on his intelligence test
General intelligence
Hey statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a persons total score
Factor analysis
A condition in which a person otherwise limited and mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
Savant syndrome
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, And perceive emotions
Emotional intelligence
The measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; The chronological age. The most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. That’s a child he does as well is it the average eight-year-old is said to have a mental age of eight
Mental age
The widely used American revision of Binet’s intelligence test
Stanford-Binet
Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age
Intelligence quotient
Test designed to assess what a person has learned
Achievement tests
Test designed to predict a persons future performance;
Aptitude test
Last widely used intelligence test, contains verbal and performance subtests
Wessler adult intelligence scale
Defining meaningful scores back in Paris and with the performance of a pretested group
Standardization
The symmetrical bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes
Normal curve
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on to have the test, or on retesting
Reliability
