chapter 10 book

Question 1

savant syndrome:

Answer 1

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

Question 2

emotional intelligence:

Answer 2

the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use

emotions.

Question 3

achievement test:

Answer 3

a test designed to assess what a person has learned.

Question 4

aptitude test:

Answer 4

a test designed to predict a person’s :future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.

Question 5

standardization:

Answer 5

defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

Question 6

reliability:

Answer 6

the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the
test, or on retesting.

Question 7

validity:

Answer 7

the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
(See also content validity and predictive validity.)

Question 8

content validity:

Answer 8

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

Question 9

predictive validity:

Answer 9

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. (Also called criterion-related validity.)

Question 10

cross-sectional study:

Answer 10

research that compares people of different ages at the same point in time.

Question 11

longitudinal study:

Answer 11

research that follows and retests the same people over time.

Question 12

cohort:

Answer 12

a group of people sharing a common characteristic, such as from a given time period.