Ch 9

Question 1

Aptitude

Answer 1

A capacity for learning certain abilities

Question 2

Special attitude test

Answer 2

A test to predict the likelihood of them suck seeding in a particular area of work or skill.

Question 3

Multiple aptitude test

Answer 3

A test that measures to or more aptitudes

Question 4

General intelligence test

Answer 4

A test. To measure a wide variety of mental abilities

Question 5

Reliability

Answer 5

The ability of a test to yield the same or nearly the same score when given to the same persons

Question 6

Validity

Answer 6

It should measure what it claims to measure

Question 7

Objective test

Answer 7

A test that gives the same score when different people grade it

Question 8

Performance (nonverbal) intelligence

Answer 8

Intelligence measured by solving puzzles, assembling objects, completing pictures, and other nonverbal tasks.

Question 9

Verbal intelligence

Answer 9

Intelligence measured by answering questions

Question 10

Mental age

Answer 10

The average mental ability displayed by people of a given age

Question 11

Intelligence quotient

Answer 11

IQ

Question 12

Normal curve

Answer 12

A bell-shaped curve characterized by a large number of scores in a middle area, tapering to very few extremely high and low scores.

Question 13

Deviation (IQ)

Answer 13

An IQ obtained statistically from a person’s relative standing in his or her age group-that is, how far above or below average the persons score is relative to other scores

Question 14

Fluid intelligence

Answer 14

The ability to solve novel problems involving perceptual speed or rapid insight

Question 15

Crystallized intelligence

Answer 15

The ability to solve the problems using already acquired knowledge

Question 16

Gifted-ness

Answer 16

The possession of either a high IQ or special talents or aptitudes

Question 17

Familiar intellectual disability

Answer 17

Mild intellectual disability associated with homes that are intellectually, nutritionally, and emotionally impoverished.

Question 18

Savant syndrome

Answer 18

The possession of exceptional mental ability in one or more narrow areas

Question 19

Fragile X syndrome

Answer 19

A genetic form of intellectual disability caused by a defective X chromosome

Question 20

Phenylketonuria

Answer 20

PKU - a genetic disease that allows phenylpyruvic acid to accumulate in the body.

Question 21

Microcephaly

Answer 21

A disorder where the head and brain are abnormally small

Question 22

Hydrocephaly

Answer 22

A buildup of cerebrospinal fluids within brains cavities

Question 23

Cretinism

Answer 23

Stunted growth and intellectual disability caused by an insufficient supply of thyroid hormones.

Question 24

Eugenics

Answer 24

Selective breeding

Question 25

Twin study

Answer 25

Study of twins

Question 26

Neural intelligence

Answer 26

The innate speed and efficiency of a persons brain and nervous system

Question 27

Metacognitive skills

Answer 27

An ability to manage ones own thinking and problem-solving efforts

Question 28

Multiple intelligence

Answer 28

Howard Gardner’s theory that there are several specialized types of intellectual ability

Question 29

G-factor

Answer 29

A general ability factor proposed to underlie intelligence; the core of general intellectual ability that involves reasoning, problem-solving ability, knowledge and memory