IQ Basics
The ability to understand and adapt to the environment by using inherited abilities and learning experiences.
What is intelligence?
Intelligence test first developed by Alfred Binet and refined at Stanford University.
What is the Stanford-Binet test?
Howard Gardner’s theory that intelligence is made up of eight abilities
What is the theory of multiple intelligences?
Uniform procedures in administration and scoring a test.
What is standardization?
Tests that measure innate ability and predict future success.
What are aptitude tests?
Your actual age in years
What is your chronological age?
An adult intelligence test that provides three IQ scores: verbal, performance, and full-scale
What is WAIS?
Robert Sternberg’s theory of three dimensions of intelligence (analytic, practical, creative).
What is successful intelligence?
The consistency of a test’s results.
What is test reliability?
Tests that measure mastery of knowledge learned in the past
What are achievement tests?
The level of intellectual functioning in years compared with chronological age
What is the mental age?
A children’s intelligence test for ages 6–16 that provides verbal, performance, and full-scale IQs.
What is the WISC?
The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions
What is emotional intelligence?
The degree to which a test measures what it was designed to measure.
What is test validity?
DNA inherited from biological parents that influences traits, including intelligence.
What are genetics?
A measure of intelligence obtained by comparing mental age to chronological age
What is IQ?
IQ test items that rely heavily on word comprehension and usage
What is the verbal scale?
The ability to apply and use ideas; “street smarts.”
What is practical intelligence?
When a test is inappropriate for a certain audience because it reflects only one culture’s knowledge.
What is cultural bias?
Differing in neurological function from what is typical, often applied to autism spectrum.
What is neurodivergent?
Formula for IQ
What is MA/CA x 100= IQ?
IQ test items that bypass words and focus on problem-solving.
What is the performance scale?
The ability to invent, design, and deal effectively with new situations
What is creative intelligence/creativity?
A percentage showing how many people scored at or below your score
What is a percentile score?
Students with outstanding levels of aptitude or achievement (top 10% or higher).
Who are gifted students?