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| 360838277 | Intelligence Test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores., a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores. | |
| 360838278 | Mental Age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. | |
| 360838279 | Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test. | |
| 360838280 | Intelligence Quotient | defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca × 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100. | |
| 360838281 | Aptitude Tests | a test designed to predict a persons future performance; aptitude is capacity to learn. | |
| 360838282 | Achievement Tests | tests designed to assess what a person has learned. | |
| 360838283 | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale | the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests. | |
| 360838284 | Standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group. | |
| 360838285 | Normal Curve | the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. | |
| 360838286 | 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. | |
| 360838287 | Validity | The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. | |
| 360838288 | Content Validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as a driving test that samples driving tasks). | |
| 360838289 | Stereotype Threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. | |
| 360838290 | 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. | |
| 360838291 | Intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. | |
| 360838292 | 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. | |
| 360838293 | General Intelligence (g) | a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. | |
| 360838294 | Savant Syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing. | |
| 360838295 | 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. | |
| 360838296 | Down Syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup. | |
| 360838297 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. | |
| 360838298 | Heritability | the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes. | |
| 360838299 | Emotional Intelligence | the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. |
