Spearman's term for a general intellectual ability that underlies all mental operations to some degree.
What is the g factor?
100
Standards based on the range of test scores of a large group of people who are selected to provide the bases of comparison for those who will take the test later.
What are norms?
100
The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
100
An intelligence test designed to minimize cultural bias by using questions that will not penalize individuals whose cultural or language differs from that of the urban middle or upper class.
What is a culture-fair intelligence test?
100
Twins with identical genes; monozygotic twins.
What are identical twins?
200
According to Thurstone, seven relatively distinct abilities that singularly or in combination are involved in all intellectual activities.
What are primary mental abilities?
200
An individually administered IQ test for those ages 2-23; Lewis Terman's adaptation of the Binet-Simon Intelligence scale.
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence scale?
200
The establishment of norms for comparing the scores of people who will take the test in the future; administering tests using a prescribed procedure.
What is standardization?
200
The debate over whether intelligence and other traits are primarily the result of heredity or environment.
What is the nature-nurture controversy?
200
Twins who are no more alike genetically than brothers and sisters; dizygotic twins.
What are fraternal twins?
300
The model proposed by J. P. Guilford consisting of 180 different intellectual abilities, which involve all the possible combinations of the 3 dimensions of intellect - mental operations, contents and products.
What is the structure of intellect?
300
A test score calculated by comparing an individual's score with the scores of others of the same age on whom the test's norms were formed.
What is a deviation score?
300
A type of developmental study in which the same group of participants is followed and measured at different ages.
What is a longitudinal study?
300
A field of research that investigates the relative effects of heredity and environment on behavior and ability.
What is behavioral genetics?
300
An index of the degree to which a characteristic is estimated to be influenced by heredity.
What is heritability?
400
Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of three parts - the componential, the experiential and the contextual.
What is the triarchic theory of intelligence?
400
An individual intelligence test for adults that yields separate verbal and performance IQ scores as well as an overall IQ score.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAS-III)?
400
Subnormal intelligence reflected by an IQ below 70 and by adaptive functioning severely deficient for one's age.
What is mental disability?
400
Studying identical and fraternal twins to determine the relative effects of heredity and environment on a variety of characteristics.
What is the twin study method?
400
A method researchers use to study the relative effects of heredity and environment on behavior and ability in children who are adopted shortly after birth, by comparing them with their biological and adoptive parents.
What is the adoption study method?
500
An index of intelligence originally derived by dividing mental age by chronological age and then multiplied by 100.
What is intelligence quotient (IQ)?
500
The ability of a test to yield nearly the same score each time a person takes the test or an alternative form of the test.
What is reliability?
500
Educating mentally disabled students in regular rather than special schools by placing them in regular classes for part of the day or having special classrooms in regular schools.
What is mainstreaming?
500
Those with IQ's in the upper 2-3 percent of the population; the exceptionally creative and those excelling in the visual or performing arts.
What is giftedness?
500
A type of intelligence that includes an awareness of and an ability to manage one's own emotions, the ability to motivate oneself, empathy and the ability to handle relationships successfully.