Aaron Jennings Chapter 11 Vocab Flashcards
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
Intelligence
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
General intelligence
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
Factor analysis
A condition in which a person otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
Savant syndrome
The ability to perceive understand manage and use emotions
Emotional intelligence
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
Mental age
The widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test
Stanford Binet
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
Intelligence quotient
Test designed to assess what a person has learned
Achievement test
Tests designed to predict a person’s future performance
Aptitude test
The WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtest
Wechsler adult intelligence scale
Defining meaningful scores by comparison 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 2/2 of the test, or on retesting
Reliability
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
Validity
The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
Content validity
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
Predictive validity
A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by and intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life
Intellectual disability
A condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
Down syndrome
A self confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
Stereotype threat
A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
Intelligence test
