This psychologist maintained that intelligence is quite general--a kind of mental well, or spring, of mental energy that flows through every action.
Who Charles Spearman?
100
These intelliegence tests are admistered by one examiner to many people at one times.
What are group tests?
100
These children are found to have IQ scores that are more similar to their biological parents than their current ones.
Who are adopted children?
100
This is the percentage of the general population whose IQ scores fall in between 85 and 115.
What is 70% of the population?
100
Intelligence tests designed to reduce bias by minimizing skills and values that vary from one country, region, or religion from another.
What are culture-fair tests?
200
According to the Catell, this cluster of intelligence can be affected by experience.
What is crystallized intelligence?
200
These tests minimize the use of language.
What are performance tests?
200
These have greater similarity in test scores than siblings reared together.
What are twins reared apart?
200
This is defined as significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that is accompanied by significant limitations in adaptive functioning.
What is mental retardation?
200
The ability to produce novel and socially valued ideas or objects.
What is creativity?
300
According to Sternberg, the ability to adapt creatively in new situations, to use insight.
What is creative intelligence?
300
This was the first test of intelligence, developed for testing children.
What is the Binet-Simon Scale?
300
This is the name of the effect that describes the rise of IQ scores.
What is the Flynn Effect?
300
This refers to superior IQ combined with exceptional creativity and high levels of commitment.
What is giftedness?
300
Validity of a test as measured by a comparison of the test score and independent measures of what the test is designed to measure.
What is criterion-related validity?
400
According to Sternberg, the ability to select contexts in which you can excel, to shape the environment to fit your strengths.
What is practical intelligence?
400
This is the most commonly used inidiviual intelligence test developed especially for adults; it yields verbal, performance, and full scale IQ scores.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAID-III)?
400
This researcher found that maze running capabilities could be bred into rats, but that the environment has just as much of an effect on maze capability as genetics.
Who is Robert C. Tryon?
400
This is the percentage of mentally retarded people whose mental retardation is caused by a biological factor.
What is 25% of people with mental retardation?
400
Refers to a test's having an adequate sample of questions measuring the skills or knowledge it is supposed to measure.
What is content validity?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What are logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, musical, bodily-kinestheic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic?
500
Mr. Palmer was given an IQ test when he was 4 years old. His mental age was found to be that of a 7-year-old's. What was Mr. Palmer's IQ then?
175
500
This researcher found that the IQs of orphans could be improved by letting them associate with severly retarded adults.
Who is H. M. Skeels?
500
These individuals show a remarkable ability in highly specialized areas such calculating long number sequences or playing complex musical pieces after hearing them only once.