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AP Psych: Unit 5 - Intelligence Terms

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

general intelligence (g)

according to Spearman and others, underlies all 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

in psychology, grit is passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals

emotional intelligence

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

intelligence test

a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

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

a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age. thus, a child who does as well as an average 8 year old is said to have a mental age of 8.

stanford- binet

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

standardization

defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group

the 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

the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting

the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to