Flashcards: intelligence chapter 11- myers
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Terms | Definitions |
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 intelligence tests | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores. |
| mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. |
| Stanford- Binet | the widely used american revision of Binet's original intelligence test. |
| IQ | defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ= ma/ca x100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100. |
| intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. |
| factor analysis | a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score. |
| g | underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. |
| savant syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill. |
| emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions. |
| creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. |
| aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance |
| achievement test | a test designed to assess what a person has learned. |
| WAIS | the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests. |
| standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested "standardized group". |
| normal curve | the symmetrical ball-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall hear the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes. |
| reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting. |
| validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. |
| content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest. |
| criterion | the behavior that a test is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity. |
| predictive validity | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior. |
| mental retardation | a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score below 70 and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound. |
| down syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup. |
| stereotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will evaluated based on a negative stereotype. |