Intelligence

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

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Intelligence

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According to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

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General intelligence (g)

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Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly, tends to decrease with age - especially with late adulthood

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Fluid intelligence (Gf)

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Our accumulate knowledge and verbal skills; increases with age

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Crystallized Intelligence (Gc)

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Theory that our intelligence is based on g, as well as specific abilities, bridged by Gf and Gc

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Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory

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

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Savant syndrome

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Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

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Emotional intelligence

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Method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

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Intelligence test

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Test designed to assess what a person has learned

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Achievement test

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Test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn

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Aptitude test

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Measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance associated with children of a certain chronological age. A child who does well as an average 8 year old is said to have a mental age of 8.

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Mental age

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Widely used American revision (by Terman) of Binet’s original intelligence test

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Stanford-Binet

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Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100.

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Intelligence Quotient

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The WAIS and its companion versions for children are the most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performance subtests

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

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

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Standardization

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The bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average and fewer lie near the extremes

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Normal curve

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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

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Reliability

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Extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to see

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Validity

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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

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Predictive validity

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

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Cross sectional study

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Research that follows and retests the same people over time

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Longitudinal study

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A group of people sharing a common characteristic; such as being from a given time period

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Cohort