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100
Self confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
What is stereotype threat?
100
Extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is validity?
100
Test designed to predict a person's future performance.
What is aptitude test?
100
Ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions.
What is emotional intelligence?
100
Method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
What is intelligence test?
200
A condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
What is down syndrome?
200
Extent to which a test yields consistent results.
What is reliability?
200
Test designed to assess what a person has learned.
What is achievement test?
200
Condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill.
What is savant syndrome?
200
This man made no assumptions concerning why a particular child was slow, average, or above average. He personally leaned toward an environmental explanation. He also only wanted to identify kids needing special attention in schools, and feared his test would be used to label children and limit their opportunities.
Who is Binet?
300
A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below.
What is intellectual disability?
300
Symmetrical curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.
What is normal curve?
300
Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100.
What is IQ?
300
Statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test.
What is factor analysis?
300
This psychologist views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in packages...8, to be precise.
Who is Gardner?
400
The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict.
What is predictive validity?
400
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
What is standardization?
400
Widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test.
What is Stanford-Binet?
400
According to Spearman and others, this underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore mesured by every task on an intelligence test.
What is general intelligence?
400
This psychologist agreed with Gardner about "intelligence packages", but instead of 8, he believes there are 3.
Who is Sternberg?
500
Extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.
What is content validity?
500
Most widely used intelligence test.
What is WAIS?
500
Measure of intelligence test performance designed by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance.
What is mental age?
500
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
What is intelligence?
500
This psychologist does not believe in "intelligence groups." Instead, he thinks intelligence may be broken down into 7 distinct factors.
Who is Thurstone?