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Fluid Intelligence

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The ability to perceive relations among stimuli

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Psychometricians

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Psychologists who specialize in the measurement of psychological characteristics such as intelligence and personality

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Crystallized Intelligence

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A person’s culturally influenced accumulated knowledge and skills, including understanding printed language, comprehending language, and knowing vocabulary

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Emotional Intelligence

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The ability to use one’s own and others’ emotions effectively for solving problems and living happily

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Analytic Ability

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In Sternberg’s theory of intelligence, the ability to analyze problems and generate different solutions

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Creative Ability

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In Sternberg’s theory of intelligence, the ability to deal adaptively with novel situations and problems

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Practical Ability

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In Sternberg’s theory of intelligence, the ability to know which solutions to problems are likely to work

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Mental Age

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In intelligence testing, a measure of children’s performance corresponding to the chronological age of those whose performance equals the child’s

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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A ratio of mental age to chronological age, multiplied by 100

IQ=MA/CA X 100

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Dynamic Assessment

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An approach to intelligence testing that measures a child’s learning potential by having the child learn something new in the presence of the examiner and with the examiner’s help

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Culture-Fair Intelligence Tests

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Tests designed to reduce the impact of different experiences by including items based on experiences common to many cultures

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Stereotype Threat

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The self-fulfilling prophecy in which knowledge of stereotypes leads to anxiety and reduced performance consistent with the original stereotype

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Gifted

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Traditionally, individuals with intelligence test scores of at least 130

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Divergent Thinking

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Thinking in novel and unusual directions

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Intellectual Disability

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A disorder formerly known as mental retardation in which, before 18 years of age, individuals have substantially below-average intelligence and problems adapting to an environment

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Learning Disability

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When a child with normal intelligence has difficulty mastering at least one academic subject