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A type of research involving studies comparing people of different ages at the same point in time
What is cross-sectional research?
or
What is the cross-sectional method?
The creator of the most widely used individual intelligence test
Who is David Weschler?
Administering an intelligence test to young children and then re-administering it when they turn 80 to compare the results
What is a longitudinal study?
The time when intelligence scores stabilize
When is adolescence?
The term for the same group of people studied over a period of years.
What is a cohort?
A condition caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
What is Down Syndrome?
A French psychologist who created an intelligence test to measure the mental age of children.
Who is Alfred Binet?
Precocious youths who aced the math SAT at age 13—by scoring in the top 1 percent of their age group.
What is giftedness?
The three criteria an intelligence test must meet to be accepted
What are standardization, reliability, and validity?
or
What are standardized, reliable, and valid?
The worldwide improvement in intelligence test performance since the beginning of intelligence test usage.
What is the Flynn effect?
The ability to reason quickly and abstractly that decreases with age
What is fluid intelligence?
A psychologist who unsuccessfully tried to measure "natural ability"
Who is Francis Galton?
Some academic aptitude tests predict success in school at certain ages
What is predictive validity?
Typical characteristics of people with high scores on intelligence tests.
What are healthy, well-adjusted, and academically successful?
Tests intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill
What are aptitude tests?
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills that tends to increase with age
What is crystallized intelligence?
The psychologist who came up with the term "Intelligence Quotient."
Who is William Stern?
Suzie scored 47 on her intelligence test and had difficulty adapting to the demands of life.
What is intellectual disability?
The version of the Binet-Simon test modified to measure inherited intelligence.
What is the Stanford-Binet test?
A researcher who conducted longitudinal studies of child intelligence in Scotland
Who is Ian Deary?
The extent to which a test samples the behavior of interest
A gifted individual who completed three college degrees by the time he was 14
Who is Moshe Kai Cavalin?
A low verbal comprehension score combined with high scores on other subtests could indicate a reading or language disability
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
or
What is WAIS?
At this time, scores fluctuate but begin to predict adolescent and adult scores.
When is age 4?
Four subtests of WAIS
What are recognizing similarities, vocabulary, letter-number sequencing, and block design?