Chapter 9 & 10

Question 1

The practice in education of grouping students according to ability and education them in classes with students of comparable academic or intellectual standing.

Answer 1

Ability Grouping

Question 2

The ability to process novel responses or works.

Answer 2

Creativity

Question 3

Procedures that involve assigning students usually of different races or ability levels, to work teams that are reinforced for performing well as teams and that encourage cooperation among teammates.

Answer 3

Cooperative Learning

Question 4

Those aspects of intellectual functioning that involves using knowledge acquired through experience.

Answer 4

Crystallized Intelligence

Question 5

The situation that arises in testing when one cultural or subcultural group is more familiar with test items than another group therefore has an unfair advantage.

Answer 5

Culture Bias

Question 6

Mental retardation that appears to be caused by some combination of low genetic potential or emotional difficulties that could account for their learning problems.

Answer 6

Culture Familiar Retardation

Question 7

A numerical measure of infant’s performance on a developmental test relative to the performance of other infants the same age.

Answer 7

Development Quotient

Question 8

Serious difficulties learning to read in children who have normal intellectual ability and no sensory impairments or emotional difficulties that could account for their learning problems.

Answer 8

Dyslexia

Question 9

The phenomenon in which extraordinary talent in a particular area is displayed by a person who is otherwise mentally retarded.

Answer 9

Savant Syndrome

Question 10

An individual’s fear of being judged to have the qualities associated with negative stereotypes of his or her social group.

Answer 10

Stereotype Threat

Question 11

Sternberg’s concept that people are intelligent to the extent that they are able to succeed in life in their sociocultural context.

Answer 11

Successful Intelligence

Question 12

Standards of normal performance on psychometric instruments based on the average scores and range scores obtained by a large, representative sample of test takers.

Answer 12

Test Norms

Question 13

Aspects of intelligence that involve activity thinking and reasoning to solve novel problems.

Answer 13

Fluid Intelligence

Question 14

The possession of unusually high general intellectual potential or of special abilities in such areas as creativity, mathematics, or the arts.

Answer 14

Giftedness

Question 15

A widely used instrument that allows an observer to determine how intellectually stimulating or impoverished a home environment is.

Answer 15

HOME

Question 16

The educational practice of integrating handicapped student into regular classrooms rather than placing them in segregated special education classes.

Answer 16

Inclusion

Question 17

A numerical measure of person’s performance on an intelligence test relative to the performance of other examples of the same age, typically with a score of 100 defined as average.

Answer 17

Intelligence Quotient

Question 18

A goal adopted by learners in which they seek to learn new things so that they can improve their abilities.

Answer 18

Learning Goal

Question 19

A tendency to avoid challenges and to cease trying in the face of failure primarily because of a tendency to attribute failure to lack of ability and therefore to believe that little can be done to improve the results.

Answer 19

Learned Helplessness Orientation

Question 20

A measure of intellectual development that reflects the level of age-graded problems that a child is able to solve.

Answer 20

Mental Age

Question 21

Significant sub-average general intellectual functioning associated with impairments in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.

Answer 21

Mental Retardation

Question 22

A symmetrical curve that describes the variability of characteristics within a population.

Answer 22

Normal Distribution

Question 23

Mental retardation because of some identifiable biological cause associated with heredity factors, diseases, or injuries.

Answer 23

Organic Retardation

Question 24

A goal adopted by learners in which they attempt to prove their ability rather than to improve it.

Answer 24

Performance Goal

Question 25

The research tradition that spawned standardize test of intelligence and that views intelligence as a trait or a set of traits the can be measured and that varies from person to person.

Answer 25

Psychometric Approach