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| 285867591 | Cognitive ability | The capacity to reason, remember, understand, solve problems, and make decisions | |
| 285867592 | Intelligence | Those attributes that center around skill at information processing, problem solving, and adapting to new or changing situations. | |
| 285867593 | Stanford-Binet | A test for determining a person's IQ | |
| 285867594 | IQ test | A test designed to measure intelligence on an objective, standardized scale | |
| 285867595 | intelligence quotient (IQ score) | An index of intelligence that reflects the degree to which a person's score on an intelligence test deviates from the average score of others in the same age group | |
| 285867596 | Aptitude test | A test designed to measure a person's capacity to learn certain things or perform certain tasks | |
| 285867597 | Achievement Test | A measure of what a person has accomplished or learned in a particular area | |
| 285867598 | Test | A systematic procedure for observing behavior in a standard situation and describing it with the help of a numerical scale or category system | |
| 285867599 | Norm | A description of the frequency at which particular scores occur, allowing scores to be compared statistically | |
| 285867600 | Reliability | The degree to which a test can be repeated with the same results | |
| 285867601 | Validity | The degree to which test scores are interpreted correctly and used appropriately | |
| 285867602 | Psychometric approach | A way of studying intelligence that emphasizes analysis of the products of intelligence, especially scores on intelligence tests | |
| 285867603 | G | A general intelligence factor that Charles Spearman postulated as accounting for positive correlations between people's scores on all sorts of cognitive ability tests | |
| 285867604 | S | A group of special abilities that Charles Spearman saw as accompanying general intelligence | |
| 285867605 | Fluid intelligence | The basic power of reasoning and problem solving | |
| 285867606 | Crystallized intelligence | The specific knowledge gained as a result of applying fluid intelligence | |
| 285867607 | Information-processing approach | An approach to the study of intelligence that focuses on mental operations, such as attention ans memory, that underlie intelligent behavior | |
| 285867608 | Triarchic theory of intelligence | Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic, creative, and practical dimensions | |
| 285867609 | Multiple intelligences | 8 semi-independent kinds of intelligence postulated by Howard Gardner | |
| 285867610 | Creativity | The capacity to produce new, high-quality ideas or products | |
| 285867611 | Divergent thinking | The ability to think along many alternatives paths to generate many different solutions to a problem | |
| 285867612 | Convergent thinking | The ability to apply logic and knowledge to narrow down the number of possible solutions to a problem or perform some other complex cognitive task | |
| 285867613 | Metacognition | The knowledge of what strategies to apply, when to apply them, and how to use them in new situations |
