Vocabulary
The ability to learn from one's experiences, acquire knowledge, and use resources effectively in adapting to new situations or solving problems.
What is intelligence?
An IQ score below this indicates an intellectual disability.
What is 70?
A score above this number indicates a person may be gifted.
What is 130?
In Binet's mental ability test, the average age at which children could successfully answer a particular level of questions.
What is mental age?
The estimated heritability for intelligence in the general population.
What is 50%?
The awareness of and ability to manage one's own emotions to facilitate thinking and attain goals, and the understanding of what others feel
What is emotional intelligence?
The domain of adaptive functioning that includes memory, reasoning, and other academic skills
What is conceptual?
The person who developed a longitudinal study of gifted children and found that they were often socially well adjusted, skilled leaders, and above average in physical characteristics.
Who is Lewis Terman?
The result found by dividing one's mental age by one's chronological age and then multiplying by 100.
What is IQ? What is intelligence quotient?
The estimated correlation of IQ scores between identical twins.
What is 86%?
General intelligence, or the ability to reason and solve problems
What is g factor?
The domain of adaptive behavior that includes self-management skills, job responsibilities, money management, etc.
What is practical?
The score above which someone is considered a genius.
What is 140?
The more frequently used form of intelligence testing in the United States.
What is Wechsler Tests?
Two things that IQ tests may be valid in predicting.
What are academic success and job performance?
A condition in which a person's behavioral and cognitive skills exist at an earlier developmental stage than the skills of others who are the same chronological age.
What is an intellectual disability?
The most severe level of a diagnosis of intellectual disability.
What is profound?
Book about gifted children who grew up to sometimes be unhappy if they were pushed too hard as children.
What is Gifted Children Grown Up?
The process of giving a test to a large group of people that represents the kind of people for whom the test is designed.
What is standardization?
Controversial book that claimed IQ scores are largely inherited and that people from lower economic levels were unintelligent.
What is The Bell Curve?
The tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again each time it is given to the same people
What is reliability?
The category of causes of intellectual disability that includes lead poisoning, malnutrition, lack of access to health care, and lack of mental stimulation.
What are unhealthy living conditions?
The percentage of the population that is gifted.
What is 2%?
When the score accurately reflects the skill in real-life situations.
What is ecological validity?
The kind of ability that might be tested in a culturally fair test.
What is nonverbal?