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| 8342606 | Intelligence Test | A method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, usuing numerical scores | |
| 8342607 | Mental Age | A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet | |
| 8342608 | Stanford-Binet | The widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test | |
| 8342609 | Intelligence Quotient (IQ) | Defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100 | |
| 8342610 | Intelligence | Mental quality consisting of that ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | |
| 8342611 | Factor Analysis | A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test | |
| 8342612 | General Intelligence (G) | A general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by eary task on an intelligence test | |
| 8342613 | Savant Syndrome | A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has anexceptional specific skill, such as in drawing | |
| 8342614 | Emotional Intelligence | The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions | |
| 8342615 | Aptitude Test | A test designed to predict a person's future performance | |
| 8342616 | Achievement Test | A test designed to assess what a person has learned | |
| 8342617 | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | The WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; it contains verbal and performance subtests | |
| 8342618 | Standardization | Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested "standardization group" | |
| 8342619 | Normal Curve | The symetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes | |
| 8342620 | 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 | |
| 8342621 | Validity | The Extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to | |
| 8342622 | Content Validity | The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest | |
| 8342623 | Criterion | The behavior that a test is designed to predict | |
| 8342624 | Predictive Validity | The success with which a test predicts the behavior it si designed to predict | |
| 8342625 | Mental Retardation | A condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score below 70 and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life | |
| 8342626 | Down Syndrome | A condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup | |
| 8342627 | Creativity | The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas |
