Assessing Intelligence
Dynamics of Intelligence
Intelligence
Creativity
Origins of Intelligence Testing
100
Aptitude Test
What is a test designed to predict a person's future performance?
100
Mental Retardation
What is a condition of limited mental ability indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or bellow?
100
Intelligence
What is mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new skills?
100
Creativity
What is the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas?
100
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
What is the most widely used intelligence test? Contains verbal and performance subtests
200
Achievement Test
What is a test designed to assess what a person has learned?
200
Down Syndrome
What is a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic make up?
200
Emotional Intelligence
What is the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions?
200
Expertise
What is a well-developed base of knowledge?
200
Stanford-Binet
What is the widely used American Revision of Binet's original intelligence test?
300
Standardization
What is defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group?
300
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
What is savant syndrome?
300
Factor Analysis
What is a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called FACTORS) on a test?
300
Intrinsic Motivation
What is a desire to perform a behavior for its own sake?
300
Normal Curve
What is the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes?
400
Validity
What is the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to?
400
Lower
Do identical twins reared apart have, on average, higher or lower IQs than identical twins reared together?
400
General Intelligence
What is a factor that underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test?
400
Intelligence Quotient
What does IQ stand for?
400
Reliability
What is the extent to which a test yields consistent results?
500
Mental Age
What is the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance?
500
21
Which chromosome does a person with down syndrome have an extra of?
500
Extrinsic Motivation
What is a desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment?
500
Criterion
What is the behavior that a test is designed to predict?
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