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the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

Intelligence test

assesses people's mental abilities and compares them with others, using numerical scores

General Intelligence (g)

a general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

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 a person's total score.

Savant Syndrome

a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing

the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.

Emotional Intelligence

the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions

a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance

the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.

intelligence quotient (IQ)

defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 [thus, IQ = (ma/ca) x 100]. On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.

achievement test

a test designed to assess what a person has learned

a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn

Welchsler Adult Intelligence Scale (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 group

the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.