Unit 3

Question 1

standardized measure of a sample of a person’s behaviour, mental ability of personality tests

Answer 1

psychological test

Question 2

test that measures general mental ability

Answer 2

intelligence test

Question 3

test that access specific types of mental abilities

Answer 3

aptitude test

Question 4

test that measures a person’s mastery and knowledge of subjects

Answer 4

achievement test

Question 5

test that measures aspects of personality, motives, interests…

Answer 5

personality test

Question 6

uniform procedures to administer/score a test

Answer 6

standardization

Question 7

how you score relative to others

Answer 7

test norms

Question 8

measurement consistency

Answer 8

reliability

Question 9

ability of a to test to measure what it was designed to

Answer 9

validity

Question 10

if what is on the test is relevant to what was taught

Answer 10

content validity

Question 11

test that makes a prediction of someone’s behaviour, compare pilot aptitude to the performance of flying

Answer 11

criterion-related validity

Question 12

if the test is designed to measure a hypothetical construct

Answer 12

construct validity

Question 13

british scholar, nature waaay over nurture, invented percentile scores and correlations

Answer 13

Sir Francis Galton

Question 14

developed a test to test children’s mental ability, mental age

Answer 14

Alfred Binet

Question 15

mentality of a certain age

Answer 15

mental age

Question 16

a child’s mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100

Answer 16

intelligence quotient (IQ)

Question 17

created by lewis terman, expansion of the Binet test, based on IQ

Answer 17

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

Question 18

correlations among many factors

Answer 18

factor analysis

Question 19

invented a procedure that uses factor analysis

Answer 19

Charles Spearman

Question 20

reasoning ability, memory capacity, speed of information processing

Answer 20

fluid intelligence

Question 21

ability to apply acquired knowledge

Answer 21

crystallized intelligence

Question 22

locate subjects within the normal distribution, using standard deviation as the unit of measurement

Answer 22

deviation IQ scores

Question 23

developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Answer 23

David Wechsler

Question 24

subnormal mental ability, accompanied by deficient adaptive skills, originating before 18, 1% of population

Answer 24

intellectual disability

Question 25

social, conceptual, practical skills

Answer 25

adaptive skills

Question 26

Mild (majority), moderate, severe, profound

Answer 26

levels of intellectual disability

Question 27

someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrates some that are very advanced

Answer 27

savant syndrome

Question 28

minimum IQ is 130, upper 2-3%,

Answer 28

giftedness

Question 29

IQ 130-150

Answer 29

moderately gifted

Question 30

IQ above 180, introverted, socially isolated

Answer 30

profoundly gifted

Question 31

high intelligence, creativity, motivation

Answer 31

eminent giftedness

Question 32

estimated proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by variations in genetics

Answer 32

heritability ratio

Question 33

if children who are raised in a substandard household will gradually have lower IQs

Answer 33

Cumulative deprivation hypothesis

Question 34

genetically determined limits on IQ

Answer 34

reaction range

Question 35

IQ tests have gradually become more difficult to get a higher score, attributed to environmental factors

Answer 35

Flynn Effect

Question 36

Sternberg’s triarchic theory of human contextual intelligence

Answer 36

intelligence is a culturally defined concept
componential (metacomponents, performance components, knowledge-acquisition components), experiential (experience and intelligence) subtheories

Question 37

ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate, understand and reason and regulate emotion

Answer 37

emotional intelligence

Question 38

a hypothetical concept is given a name and treated as a tangible object

Answer 38

reification

Question 39

moderately gifted children are diff than profoundly gifted. most gifted children do not grow to eminent adults

Answer 39

Ellen winner