AP Psych Chapter 11 Terms Flashcards
Mental quality consisting from the ability of learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Intelligence
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test.
Factor Analysis
According to Spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
General Intelligence
A condition in which a person with otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptional specific skill.
Savant Syndrome
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
Emotional Intelligence
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
Creativity
A method of assessing ones mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
Intelligence Test
A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet.
Mental Age
The widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test.
Sanford-Binet
Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100.
Intelligent Quotient (IQ)
A test designed to predict a person’s future performance.
Aptitude Test
A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
Achievement Test
The most widely used intelligence test; contains both verbal and performance subtests.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardized group.
Standardization
A symmetrical bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.
Normal Curve
The extent to which a test yields reliable results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test either on different forms 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 behavior that a test is designed to predict.
Criterion
The success what which predicts the behavior it is designed to predict.
Predictive Validity
A condition of limited mental abilities, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to demands of life.
Mental Retardation
A condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in ones genetic makeup.
Down Syndrome
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
Stereotype Threat
