The use of specified procedures to evaluate the abilities, behaviors, and personal qualities of people.
What is psychological assessment?
100
The capacity of one to learn from experience and make a deduction based on given information.
What is intelligence?
100
The field of psychology that specializes in mental testing.
What is psychometrics?
100
A statistical estimate of the degree of inheritance of a given trait or behavior, assessed by the degree of similarity between individuals who vary in their extent of generic similarity.
What is a heritability estimate?
100
The ability to generate ideas or products that are both novel and appropriate to the circumstances.
What is creativity?
200
The extent to which a test measures what it was intended to measure.
What is validity?
200
Also known as just one's age.
What is chronological age?
200
The factor of general intelligence underlying all intelligent performance.
What is g?
200
Families that were traced for many generations to show that bad seeds planted in family genes yield defective human offspring.
Who are the Juke and Kallikak families?
200
An aspect of creativity characterized by an ability to produce unusual but appropriate responses to problems.
What is divergent thinking?
300
The extent to which a test produces consistent scores each time it is used.
What is reliability?
300
A condition in which an individual has an IQ of 75 or less and has limited adaptive abilities.
What is mental retardation?
300
He used factor analysis to examine the demands of many intelligence related tasks.
Who is J. P. Guilford?
300
He advocated the Immigration Restriction Act.
Who is Henry Goddard?
300
The overall number of distinct ideas.
What is fluency?
400
Used for comparing scores of an individual with those of others within a group.
What are norms?
400
He provided a base for the concept of IQ.
Who is Lewis Terman?
400
Created a three part theory on intelligence.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
400
A Revolutionary War soldier who had an illegitimate son with a woman who was developmentally disabled.
Who is Martin Kallikak?
400
The number of ideas that were given by no other person in an appropriate sample when assessing creativity.
What is uniqueness?
500
A scale that allows one to make appropriate/reliable/valid distinctions to rate a certain circumstance.
What is a coding scheme?
500
He created a test to weed out normal children from mentally disabled ones.
Who is Alfred Binet?
500
Started the idea of EQ.
Who is Howard Gardener?
500
The threat associated with being at risk for confirming a negative stereotype of one's group.
What is stereotype threat?
500
He said: "It is a false and romantic notion that people have to undergo suffering themselves in order to be able to understand the human concerns and suffering of others"