AP Psych Chapter 9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Achievement tests | Tests that gauge a person's mastery and knowledge of various subjects. |
| Aptitude tests | Psychological tests used to assess talent for specific types of mental ability. |
| Construct validity | The extent to which there is evidence that a test measures a particular hypothetical construct. |
| Content validity | The degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it's supposed to cover. |
| Convergent thinking | Narrowing down a list of alternatives to converge on a single correct answer. |
| Correlation coefficient | A numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables. |
| Creativity | The generation of ideas that are original, novel, and useful. |
| Criterion-related validity | Test validity that is estimated by correlating subjects' scores on a test with their scores on an independent criterion (another measure) of the trait assessed by the test. |
| Deviation IQ scores | Scores that locate subjects precisely within the normal distribution, using the standard deviation as the unit of measurement. |
| Divergent thinking | Trying to expand the range of alternatives by generating many possible solutions. |
| Emotional intelligence | The ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion. |
| Heritability ratio | An estimate of the proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by variations in genetic inheritance. |
| Intelligence quotient (IQ) | A child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100. |
| Intelligence tests | Psychological tests that measure general mental ability. |
| Mental age | In intelligence testing, a score that indicates that a child displays the mental ability typical of a child of that chronological (actual) age. |
| Mental retardation | Subnormal general mental ability accompanied by deficiencies in everyday living skills originating prior to age 18. |
| Normal distribution | A symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are dispersed in the population. |
| Percentile score | A figure that indicates the percentage of people who score below the score one has obtained. |
| Personality tests | Psychological tests that measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. |
| Psychological test | A standardized measure of a sample of a person's behavior. |
| Reaction range | Genetically determined limits on IQ or other traits. |
| Reification | Giving an abstract concept a name and then treating it as though it were a concrete, tangible object. |
| Reliability | The measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques). |
| Standardization | The uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. |
| Test norms | Standards that provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. |
| Validity | The ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure. |
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