Unit 11

Question 1

Method of assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparingg them with others

Answer 1

Intelligence tests

Question 2

Ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new experiences

Answer 2

Intelligence

Question 3

Identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score

Answer 3

Factor analysis

Question 4

Underlies specific mental abilities and is measured by every test on an intelligence test

Answer 4

General intelligence

Question 5

A person limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as drawing or computation

Answer 5

Savant syndrome

Question 6

What are the 4 aspects of emotional intelligence?

Answer 6

Perceive, understand, manage, use

Question 7

Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

Answer 7

Emotional intelligence

Question 8

Level of performance associated with a chronological age

Answer 8

Mental age

Question 9

Widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test

Answer 9

Stanford-Binet

Question 10

Average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100

Answer 10

IQ

Question 11

Promoted widespread use of intelligence testing; renamed the IQ test the Stanford-Binet

Answer 11

Lewis Terman

Question 12

Identified several clusters of mental abilities

Answer 12

L.L. Thurstone

Question 13

Measured mental age of children

Answer 13

Alfred Binet

Question 14

Views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in packages

Answer 14

Howard Gardner

Question 15

Believed that we have 3 intelligences

Answer 15

Robert Sternberg

Question 16

Believed we had 1 general intelligence

Answer 16

Charles Spearman

Question 17

Believed in the inheritance of a genius

Answer 17

Francis Galton

Question 18

Predicts a person’s future performance

Answer 18

Aptitude test

Question 19

Assesses what a person has learned

Answer 19

Achievement test

Question 20

Most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests

Answer 20

WAIS

Question 21

Created Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test

Answer 21

David Wechsler

Question 22

Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group

Answer 22

Standardization

Question 23

Symmetrical, bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of attributes

Answer 23

Normal curve

Question 24

Calculated the magnitude of how intelligent we are compared to the past

Answer 24

James Flynn (Flynn effect)

Question 25

Extent to which a test yields consistent results, assessed by the consistency of scores on 2 halves of the test

Answer 25

Reliability

Question 26

Extent to which the test actually measures or predicts what it promises

Answer 26

Validity

Question 27

Extent to which a test samples the behavior that’s of interest

Answer 27

Content validity

Question 28

Success with which a test predicts the behavior it’s designed to predict

Answer 28

Predictive validity

Question 29

Having limited mental ability, intelligence score below 70, having difficulty adapting to the demands of life

Answer 29

Intellectual disability

Question 30

Intellectual disability and physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome 21

Answer 30

Down syndrome

Question 31

Self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated on a negative stereotype

Answer 31

Stereotype threat

Question 32

Made the equation for derived IQ

Answer 32

William stern

Question 33

What are the 3 intelligences Sternberg proposed?

Answer 33

Practical, analytical, creative