Key terms from Ch. 11 in Psychology (Myers 7E)
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| 1493225807 | intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others using numerical scores | 0 | |
| 1493225809 | mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Alfred Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance | 1 | |
| 1493225811 | Stanford-Binet | the widely-used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test | 2 | |
| 1493225812 | intelligence quotient | the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100. | 3 | |
| 1493225814 | intelligence | a mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | 4 | |
| 1493225816 | factor analysis | a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score | 5 | |
| 1493225817 | general intelligence | an intelligence factor that Charles Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test | 6 | |
| 1493225819 | Savant syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as computing or drawing | 7 | |
| 1493225821 | emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions | 8 | |
| 1493225823 | creativity | the ability to produce novel valuable ideas | 9 | |
| 1493225825 | standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group | 10 | |
| 1493225826 | normal curve | 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. | 11 | |
| 1493225828 | reliability | 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 | 12 | |
| 1493225830 | validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to | 13 | |
| 1493225832 | content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest | 14 | |
| 1493225833 | criterion | the behavior that a test is designed to predict | 15 | |
| 1493225834 | predictive validity | the success with which a test foretells the behavior it is designed to foretell; assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior. (also called criterion-related validity) | 16 | |
| 1493225835 | 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 | 17 | |
| 1493225836 | Down syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic make-up. | 18 | |
| 1493225837 | stereotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. | 19 | |
| 1493225838 | Intelligence | Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. | 20 | |
| 1493225839 | Criterion | The behavior the test is designed to predict. | 21 | |
| 1493225840 | Mental retardation | A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound. | 22 |
