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| 564792014 | psychological test | A standardized measure of a sample of a person's behavior. | |
| 564792015 | intelligence tests | Measure general mental ability. | |
| 564792016 | aptitude tests | Assess specific types of mental abilities. | |
| 564792017 | achievement tests | Gauge a person's mastery and knowledge of various subjects. | |
| 564792018 | personality tests | Measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. | |
| 564792019 | standardization | Refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. | |
| 564792020 | test norms | Provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. | |
| 564792021 | percentile score | Indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. | |
| 564792022 | reliability | Refers to the measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques). | |
| 564792023 | test-retest reliability | Estimated by comparing subjects' scores on two administrations of a test. | |
| 564792024 | correlation coefficient | A numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables. | |
| 564792025 | validity | Refers to the ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure. | |
| 564792026 | content validity | Refers to the degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it's supposed to cover. | |
| 564792027 | criterion-related validity | Estimated by correlating subjects' scores on a test with their scores on an independent criterion (another measure) of the trait assessed by the test. | |
| 564792028 | construct validity | The extent to which evidence shows that a test measures a particular hypothetical construct. | |
| 564792029 | mental age | In intelligence testing, a score that indicates that a child displays the mental ability typical of a child of that chronological (actual) age. | |
| 564792030 | intelligence quotient (IQ) | A child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100. | |
| 564792031 | normal distribution | A symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are dispersed in the population. | |
| 564792032 | deviation IQ scores | Scores that locate subjects precisely within the normal distribution, using the standard deviation as the unit of measurement. | |
| 564792033 | mental retardation | Refers to subaverage general mental ability accompanied by deficiencies in adaptive skills, originating before age 18. | |
| 564792034 | down syndrome | A condition marked by distinctive physical characteristics (such as slanted eyes, stubby limbs, and thin hair) that is associated with mild to severe retardation. | |
| 564792035 | phenylketonuria | A metabolic disorder (due to an inherited enzyme deficiency) that can lead to retardation if it is not caught and treated in infancy. | |
| 564792036 | hydrocephaly | An excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the skull destroys brain tissue and causes retardation. | |
| 564792037 | testing perspective | Perspective that emphasizes measuring the amount of intelligence people have and figuring out why some have more than others. | |
| 564792038 | cognitive perspective | Perspective that focuses on how people use their intelligence.The interest is in process rather than amount. | |
| 564792039 | triarchic theory of human intelligence | Theory that consists of three parts: the contextual, experiential, and componential subtheories. | |
| 564792040 | analytical intelligence | Involves abstract reasoning, evaluation, and judgment. | |
| 564792041 | creative intelligence | Involves the ability to generate new ideas and to be inventive in dealing with novel problems. | |
| 564792042 | practical intelligence | Involves the ability to deal effectively with the kinds of problems that people encounter in everyday life, such as on the job or at home. | |
| 564792043 | logical-mathematical intelligence | Sensitivity to, and capacity to discern, logical or numerical patterns; ability to handle long chains of reasoning. | |
| 564792044 | linguistic intelligence | Sensitivity to the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words; sensitivity to the different functions of language. | |
| 564792045 | musical intelligence | Abilities to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch, and timbre; appreciation of the forms of musical expressiveness. | |
| 564792046 | spatial intelligence | Capacities to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately and to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions. | |
| 564792047 | bodily-kinesthetic intelligence | Abilities to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully. | |
| 564792048 | interpersonal intelligence | Capacities to discern and respond appropriately to the moods, temperaments, motivations, and desires of other people. | |
| 564792049 | intrapersonal intelligence | Access to one's own feelings and the ability to discriminate among them and draw upon them to guide behavior; knowledge of one's own strengths, weaknesses, desires, and intelligences. | |
| 564792050 | naturalist intelligence | Abilities to recognize and categorize objects and processes in nature. | |
| 564792051 | emotional intelligence | Consists of the ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion. | |
| 564792052 | creativity | Involves the generation of ideas that are original, novel, and useful. | |
| 564792053 | convergent thinking | In ________________ one tries to narrow down a list of alternatives to converge on a single correct answer. | |
| 564792054 | divergent thinking | In ________________ one tries to expand the range of alternatives by generating many possible solutions. | |
| 564792055 | reification | Occurs when a hypothetical, abstract concept is given a name and then treated as thought it were a concrete, tangible object. | |
| 564792056 | heritability ratio | An estimate of the proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by variations in genetic inheritance. | |
| 564792057 | reaction range | Genetically determined limits on IQ or other traits. |
