Aaron Jennings Chapter 11 Vocab

Question 1

Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

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Intelligence

Question 2

A general intelligence factor that, according to spearmen and others, underline specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

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General intelligence

Question 3

A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underline a person’s total score

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Factor analysis

Question 4

A condition in which a person otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing

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Savant syndrome

Question 5

The ability to perceive understand manage and use emotions

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Emotional intelligence

Question 6

A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus a child who does well as the average eight-year-old is said to have a mental age of eight

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Mental age

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The widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test

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Stanford Binet

Question 8

Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 on contemporary intelligence test, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of the 100

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Intelligence quotient

Question 9

Test designed to assess what a person has learned

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Achievement test

Question 10

Tests designed to predict a person’s future performance

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Aptitude test

Question 11

The WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtest

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Wechsler adult intelligence scale

Question 12

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group

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Standardization

Question 13

The symmetrical, bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes

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Normal curve

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The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on 2/2 of the test, or on retesting

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Reliability

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The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

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Validity

Question 16

The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest

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Content validity

Question 17

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

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Predictive validity

Question 18

A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by and intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life

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Intellectual disability

Question 19

A condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21

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Down syndrome

Question 20

A self confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

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Stereotype threat

Question 21

A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

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Intelligence test