Chapter ten vocab

Question 1

Intelligence

Learn from

Answer 1

The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

Question 2

General Intelligence

hits all mental abilites

Answer 2

according to spearman and others, underlies all mental abilites and therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

Question 3

fluid intelligence

reason with speed

Answer 3

Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly as when solving logical problems

Question 4

cystallized intelligence

From school and skill

Answer 4

our accumulated knowledge as reflected in vocabulary and applied skills

Question 5

Cattell- Horn- Carroll (CHC) theory

G+GF+GC

Answer 5

the theory that our intelligence is based on G as well as specific abilites, brighted by GF and GC

Question 6

Savant syndrome

Being extreamly good at one spesfic thing

Answer 6

a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mnetal ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawling

Question 7

Emotional intelligence

Understanding while managing emotions

Answer 7

The ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions

Question 8

Intelligence test

Mental ability with others

Answer 8

assesses peoples mental aptitiudes and compares them with those of others, using number scores

Question 9

Achievement test

What you know

Answer 9

which reflects on what you have learned

Question 10

Aptitude test

What you might learn

Answer 10

Which predicts what you will learn

Question 11

mental age

How old your brain is to your age

Answer 11

A measure of intelligence test performances divised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age

Question 12

Stanford- Binet

Answer 12

Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performances of a pretested group

Question 13

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

mental age and chronological

Answer 13

defined orginally as the ratio of mental age (MA) to chronological age (CA) mule by 100

Question 14

WAIS

Wechsier adult intelligence

Answer 14

Wechsier Adult Intelligence Scale- are the most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performances (nonverbal) subtest

Question 15

Standardization

Procedures from past test

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Normal curve

bell shaped curve of information

Answer 16

A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that decribes the distrubution of many types of date

Question 17

reliabilty

consitent consistent

Answer 17

The extent to which a test yeilds consitent results as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test on alternative forms of the test; or on resting

Question 18

Validity

valid test information

Answer 18

the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

Question 19

predictive validity

predicting what it needs to predict

Answer 19

the success with which a test predicts thte behavior it is designed to predict

Question 20

Cohort

people alike

Answer 20

A group of people sharing common characteristics

Question 21

Cross-Sectional- study

studying people of different age

Answer 21

Method of study different age groups at one time

Question 22

longitudinal study

Studying the same people over time

Answer 22

method and restudy the same group at different times in their life span

Question 23

Heritability

variation that are genes

Answer 23

the proportion of variation amoung individuals in group that we can attribute to genes

Question 24

growth mindset

Mind is not fixed

Answer 24

A focus on learning and growing rather than viewing abilites as fixes

Question 25

Stereotype threat

Answer 25

A self- confirming conern that one will evaluated based on negative stereotype