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| 6043069714 | Intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | 0 | |
| 6043069715 | Factor Analysis | a mathematical way to reduce a large number of variables to a smaller number of variables for an experiment. ... this helps researchers find similarities between any variables that are being used. | 1 | |
| 6043215218 | Aptitude test | intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill (ex. College entrance exam, SAT) | 2 | |
| 6043217967 | Achievement test | reflect what you have learned | 3 | |
| 6043217968 | Reliability | yields consistent scores. Retest to check, use the same test or split the test in half and see whether odd-question scores and even-question scores agree. | 4 | |
| 6043221523 | Savant Syndrome | condition where an individual excels in one area but is lacking in other areas | 5 | |
| 6043221524 | Content Validity | the extent that the experiment tests a certain behaviour | 6 | |
| 6043222634 | Alfred Binet (genetic and environment influence on intelligence) | Experimented to identify schoolchildren who needs special attention. Tested based on mental age (average intelligence level corresponding to actual age) | 7 | |
| 6043222037 | intelligence test | A method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores. | 8 | |
| 6043226926 | Individual test | a process of testing that uses a combination of techniques to help arrive at some hypotheses about a person and their behavior, personality and capabilities. | 9 | |
| 6043221788 | Cohort | A group of people sharing a common characteristic, such as from a given time period. | 10 | |
| 6043222140 | General Intelligence (g) | a general intelligence factor that according to Spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test | 11 | |
| 6043223542 | Group test | any procedure which breaks up the task of locating elements of a set which have certain properties into tests on subsets ("groups") rather than on individual elements. | 12 | |
| 6043222505 | Reification | a concept used in Gestalt Psychology that refers to the human mind's tendency to consider an object in its entirety before it perceives the object as the sum of individual parts | 13 | |
| 6043227660 | Fluid Intelligence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood. | 14 | |
| 6043226835 | Crystallized Intelligence | One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age | 15 | |
| 6043223534 | Lewis Terman (Innate IQ) | - best known for revision of the Stanford-Binet IQ test - tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life | 16 | |
| 6043222722 | Charles Spearman (General Intelligence) | used factor analysis, a statistical technique that takes multiple items and meshes them into one number, to show that intelligence can be a single number he simply called g (generalized intelligence) | 17 | |
| 6043225621 | Intellectual Disability | a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence test score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life. | 18 | |
| 6043223606 | Mental Age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. | 19 | |
| 6043222954 | Robert Sternberg (Three Intelligences) | Analytical, Creative, and Practical | 20 | |
| 6043224944 | Predictive Validity | the extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some criterion measure in the future. | 21 | |
| 6043225615 | Down Syndrome | a condition of mild to severe intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. | 22 | |
| 6043227503 | Creativity | a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. "Really good associative memory" | 23 | |
| 6043229637 | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | an IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability broken into 11 specific subtests of verbal and performance areas. | 24 | |
| 6043224192 | Standardization | defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group. | 25 | |
| 6043226346 | Concurrent Validity | the extent to which the results of a particular test, or measurement, correspond to previously established measurement for the same construct. | 26 | |
| 6043226884 | Robert Sternberg | He is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Among his major contributions to psychology are the triarchic theory of intelligence, several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love and hate, and is the author of over 1500 articles, book chapters, and books. | 27 | |
| 6043229043 | Heritability of Intelligence | Studies of twins, family members and adopted children together support the idea that there is a significant genetic correlation to intelligence scores. The most genetically similar people have the most similar scores. This refers to the extent to which variation in intelligence test scores in a group of people being studied is attributable to genetic factors. | 28 | |
| 6043224608 | 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. (Also called criterion-related validity.) | 29 | |
| 6043228285 | Emotional Intelligence | The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. | 30 | |
| 6043228564 | bias | The general category of testing bais include construct-validity bias, content-validity bias, and predictive-validity bias. | 31 | |
| 6043228286 | Validity | Accuracy of the method of measurement (the test must measure what its actually supposed to measure). | 32 | |
| 6043228119 | Stanford-Binet | Test that was originally developed to help determine level of intellectual and cognitive functioning of children aged 2 through adulthood. | 33 | |
| 6043225702 | 5 components of creativity | - Expertise - Imaginative thinking skills - Venturesome personality - Intrinsic motivation - Creative environment | 34 | |
| 6043228779 | Factor Analysis | A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (factors) on a test. Used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score. | 35 | |
| 6043226950 | Emotional intelligence | The ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions. | 36 | |
| 6043227130 | Howard Gardner (theory of 8 Intelligences) | abilities are best classified into 8 intelligence including spatial, musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, naturalist, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and bodily-kinesthetic. | 37 | |
| 6043225148 | Construct validity | Extent to which a measure captures the concept it is designed to measure. | 38 | |
| 6043230115 | Criterion related validity | A research concept that refers to the extent of a particular tests results, and compares previously tested results in a slightly different field. | 39 | |
| 6043224609 | Face Validity | Degree to which the measure looks like it's supposed to. | 40 | |
| 6043230431 | equivalent form reliability | used in psychometrics (the measurement of intelligence, skills, aptitudes, etc.) to determine whether or not two or more types of tests (that are designed to measure some aspect of mentality) are truly equivalent to one another. | 41 | |
| 6043231479 | Albert Binet | A pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests, designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French). | 42 | |
| 6048430887 | Test retest Reliability | This is a method of research that tests the reliability of results from tests by having participants take two identical tests to observe the outcome of results. | 43 | |
| 6054572665 | Thurston(7 clusters of mental ability) | word fluency: The ability to recall words within a given about of time within a timed situation. Verbal comprehension: The ability to recognise,understand, and to identify written information. spacial ability: A skill that can be identified with the manipulation of all 3 dimensions.(Usually tested with some form of interface) perceptual speed:The ability to quickly compare words, shapes, colour , and objects together. numerical ability:An ability to comprehend numerical values.(Normally tested from easiest to hardest) Inductive reasoning:The ability to choose information best suitable to solve a problem. Memory:The skill of comprehending information to later apply it to a specific task or problem. | 44 | |
| 6053826478 | The Flynn Effect | The increase in intelligence of the average person. An average person in the present day has higher intelligence than a person in the past. | 45 | |
| 6053831065 | IQ - Intelligence Quotient | Defined as the mental age / chronological age x100. | 46 | |
| 6053833265 | Normal Curve | The bell shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. A large percentage near the average, much less to the extremes | 47 |
