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| 36165951 | Intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | |
| 36165952 | Factor analysis | A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) in a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlies one's total score | |
| 36165953 | General intelligence | a general intelligence factor that according to Spearman and others specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test | |
| 36165954 | Savant intelligence | - a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing | |
| 36165955 | Emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, understand, and use emotions | |
| 36165956 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | |
| 36165957 | Intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing the with those of others, using numerical scores | |
| 36165958 | Mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. | |
| 36165959 | Standford-Binet | the widely used American revision (by Terman @ Stanford University) on Binet's original test | |
| 36165960 | Intelligence quotient | defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100. On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100 | |
| 36165961 | Aptitude test | a test designed to predict a person's future performance; a capacity to learn | |
| 36165962 | Achievement test | a test designed to assess what a person has learned | |
| 36165963 | Wechslr Adult Intelligence Scale | most widely used test; contains verbal and nonverbal subjects | |
| 36165964 | Standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pre tested standardization group | |
| 36165965 | 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 lie towards the extremes | |
| 36165966 | Reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting | |
| 36165967 | Validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. | |
| 36165968 | Content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest | |
| 36165969 | Criterion | the behavior (such as future college grades) that a test (such as the SAT) is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in the defining whether the test has predictive validity | |
| 36165970 | Predictive validity- | the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it assessed y the computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion | |
| 36165971 | Mental retardation- | a condition of limited mental ability, indicating by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies form mild to profound | |
| 36165972 | Down syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup | |
| 36165973 | Stereotype threat | a self- confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype |
