Chapter 11 Vocab Flashcards
Viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing
Reification
Mental quality consisting of the ability to 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 used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie ones total score
Factor analysis
Helped develop factor analysis believe there is also a general intelligence or G factors that underlies the various cluster
Charles Spearman
An intelligence factor that according to spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test
General intelligence
Rejected g-factor didn’t rank his subjects on a single scale of general aptitude argued that factor analysis revealed seven independent mental abilities
L. L. Thurstone
Stated that people have specific intellectual potentials or intelligences each involving a set of problem solving skills
Howard Gardner
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill such as in computing or drawing
Savant syndrome
Triarchic theory distinguishes three intelligences analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence
Robert Sternberg
The ability to perceive understand manage and use emotions
Emotional intelligence
To ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
Creativity
Method for assessing an individual’s mental altitudes and comparing them with those of others using numerical scores
Intelligence test
Started the modern intelligence testing movement by developing questions that helped predict children’s future progress in the Paris school system
Alfred Binet
Measure of intelligence test performance divided by Binet the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
Mental age
Stanford university professor he revisited Binets original IQ test by establishing new age norms and extending the upper end of he tests range from teenagers to support adults
Lewis Terman
The widely used American revision of Binets original intelligence test
Stanford-Binet
Defined originally as the ration of mental age (ma) to the chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 on contemporary tests the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
A test designed to predict a persons future performance aptitude is the capacity to learn
Aptitude test
A test designed to asses what a person has learned
Achievement test
Most widely used intelligence test contains verbal and performance subtests
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
The defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a protested standardization group
Standardization
Intelligence test performance has been improving
The Flynn Effect
The symmetrical bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes most scores fall near the average and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes
Normal curve
The extant to which a test yields consistent results as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test on alternate forms of the test or 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 thus the measure used is defining whether the test has predictive validity
Criterion
The success with which 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 an IQ score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life varies from mild to profound
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
