6636171434 | intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | 0 | |
6636171435 | intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores | 1 | |
6636171436 | general intelligence (g) | a general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test | 2 | |
6636171437 | savant syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing | 3 | |
6636171438 | mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8. | 4 | |
6636171439 | Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test | 5 | |
6636171440 | intelligence quotient (IQ) | the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (ma/ca x 100) | 6 | |
6636171441 | achievement test | a test designed to assess what a person has learned | 7 | |
6636171442 | aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance, their capacity to learn | 8 | |
6636171443 | standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group | 9 | |
6636171444 | 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 | ![]() | 10 |
6636171445 | reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results | 11 | |
6636171446 | validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to | 12 | |
6636171447 | content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest | 13 | |
6636171448 | 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 | 14 | |
6636171449 | practical intelligence | according to Sternberg, this is realistic and useful thinking abilities "street smarts" | 15 | |
6636171450 | analytical intelligence | according to Sternberg, this is logical reasoning typically measured on IQ tests "books smarts" | 16 | |
6636171451 | creative intelligence | according to Sternberg, inventive problem-solving abilities required to generate new ideas and learn from experience | 17 | |
6636171452 | Sternberg | proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence (practical, analytical, and creative) | 18 | |
6636171453 | Spearman | proposed the two-factor theory of intelligence, that we have one main general intelligence (g-factor) and specific abilities (s-factors) | 19 | |
6636171454 | Gardner | proposed the theory of multiple intelligence, claiming there are eight different types | 20 | |
6636171455 | emotional intelligence | the ability to recognize emotion in others and in oneself and incorporate knowledge about emotion into reasoning and thought processes (empathy) | 21 | |
6636171456 | Flynn effect | the average IQ has been raising over successive generations (due to changes in accessibility of education and educational curriculum) | 22 | |
6636171457 | culture-fair test | tests designed to allow all individuals, regardless of culture, to perform equally well, trying to overcome cultural bias in testing | 23 | |
6636171458 | culture-relevant test | test that focuses on skills and knowledge that are specific to a particular culture and administer only to members of the culture for which it was designed | 24 | |
6636171459 | crystallized intelligence | accumulated knowledge (education, facts, trivia, life skills) and verbal skills; tends to increase with age | 25 | |
6636171460 | fluid intelligence | the ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | 26 |
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