A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
Intelligence test
Jenny takes the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test to determine her future career options based off of her capacity to learn.
What is an aptitude test?
The extent results are consistent.
What is reliability?
Used in the IQ ratio, the time since someone's birth.
What is chronological age?
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
What is intelligence?
After finishing unit 3 Mr. Stanchos gives his class a test to assess how much they have learned
What is an achievement test?
A test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict successfully.
What is predictive validity.
Used in the IQ ratio, the level of someone's ability based on their age
What is mental age?
Knowledge developed over time that increases with age.
What is crystallized intelligence?
Cindy is 30 years old and has decided to learn a new language she has no experience with. She is confident she will be successful with practice and motivation.
What is a growth mindset?
Doing the same test twice over time with the same group of individuals to test reliability.
What is test-retest reliability?
The widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test.
What is Stanford-Binet?
The g factor on an IQ test
What is general intelligence?
Crystal is a woman in STEM and often feels judged based on negative stereotypes that women have lower technical skills than men. This leads her to have a lower performance.
What is a stereotype threat?
A type of validity that the test measures what it claims to measure.
What is construct validity?
The formula for intelligence quotient ratio
What is IQ=ma/ca × 100?
A type of intelligence that involves solving new problems without relying on prior knowledge
What is fluid intelligence?
Stephan Wiltshire is an autistic artist who can draw detailed accurate cityscapes from only seeing them once.
What is savant syndrome?
A method that measures a test's consistency by splitting it into 2 halves to see how similar the results are.
What is split-half reliability?
A phenomenon that refers to the steady rise in IQ test scores over generations.
What is the Flynn effect?