Acronyms
Intelligence
Potpourri
Education
Personality
100
N of the OCEAN
What is neuroticism?
100
The letters used for the general intellectual ability factor and specific factors of intelligence.
What are g and s?
100
An individual’s unique constellation of psychological traits that is relatively stable over time.
What is personality?
100
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
What is a Specific learning disability (SLD)?
100
Any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another.
What is a trait?
200
MMPI
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
200
The author of the most widely used intelligence tests.
What is David Wechsler?
200
Process of measuring psychological variables by using procedures designed to quantify the behavior.
What is psychological testing?
200
Test designed to measure accomplishment.
What is an achievement test?
200
Distinguishes one person from another but are relatively less enduring.
What is a state?
300
TAT
What is the Thematic Apperception Test?
300
The combination of the abilities of problem solving, abstract reasoning and to acquire knowledge.
What is intelligence?
300
The first United States intelligence test.
What is the Stanford-Binet?
300
A model that has these levels: Level 1: The classroom environment wherein all students are being taught whatever the teacher is teaching Level 2: A small group of learners who have failed to make adequate progress in the classroom have been segregated for special teaching Level 3: Individually-tailored and administered instruction for students who have failed to respond to the second level of intervention
What is Response to Intervention (RTI) ?
300
MMPI, NEO-PI-R, Myers-Briggs, MMPI-A, etc.
What are objective personality tests?
400
RTI
What is Response To Intervention?
400
The most widely used theory of intelligence.
What is the CHC theory?
400
Ability to validly reason with emotions and to use emotions to enhance thought.
What is emotional intelligence?
400
A comparison of performance on an aptitude/intelligence test with performance on an achievement test,
What is discrepancy analysis?
400
The most widely used projective personality test.
What is the Rorschach?
500
WPPSI
What is the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence?
500
The model of intelligence that is multifaceted but cannot be measured.
What is Gardner's multiple intelligences?
500
The first person to come up with a theory of intelligence in 1927.
Who is Spearman?
500
To diagnose this you must have: - Performance on an individually administered test of intelligence 2 or more SD below the mean - Significant deficits in adaptive behavior and - Deficiencies emerged before the age of 18.
What is IDD?
500
Apperception test for children
What is the Roberts Apperception Test for Children – 2?
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