Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
What is standardization
100
A mental image or best example of a category, the ideal to which we compare all other examples.
What is a prototype
100
Our spoken, written or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate meaning.
What is language
100
A theoretical factor which is thought to underly specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
What is general intelligence (or 'G Factor')
100
A test designed to predict a person's future performance or capacity to learn.
What is an aptitude test
200
The symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes, most scores fall near the average, and fewer scores at the extremes.
What is a normal curve (bell curve also acceptable)
200
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people.
What is a concept
200
This psychologist believed that language could be taught through classical conditioning.
Who is Skinner
200
A measure of intelligence related to developmental progress which compares actual age to mental ability.
What is mental age
200
The ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 and used to rate and compare intelligence.
What is Intelligence Quotient or IQ
300
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on alternate forms, or through re-testing.
What is reliability
300
A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem, it is not a strategy-based solution.
What is insight
300
This linguist believed that humans have an inborn universal grammar that prepares our brains to learn language.
Who is Chomsky
300
A condition in which a person who appears to be of limited intelligence or ability has an exceptional specific skill.
What is savant syndrome
300
A society for people with high intelligence, usually too high to measure with a conventional IQ test.
What is Mensa
400
The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest- does the test measure what it is supposed to measure.
What is content validity
400
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem, but is slow.
What is an algorithm
400
An early stage of speech when children use mostly nouns and verbs to make very short simple sentences.
What is telegraphic speech
400
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
What is creativity
400
The widely-used American revision of an original French test for identifying needy children.
What is the Stanford-Binet intelligence test
500
The success with which a test predicts behavior the behavior it is designed to predict as assessed through correlation between test scores and behavior.
What is predictive validity (also called criterion-related validity)
500
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently, faster but more error prone than other methods.
What is an heuristic
500
The hypothesis that language determines the way we think.
What is linguistic determinism
500
The ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions.
What is emotional intelligence
500
The most widely-used intelligence test, it contains verbal and non-verbal sub-tests.
What is Wechler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS (the WISC is used for children, and is also acceptable)