The global capacity to: Act purposefully, Think rationally, Deal effectively with the environment | ||
Attempts to improve the human genetic stock by encouraging the breeding among intellectually superior people | ||
A person's intelligence based on the age of people who are capable of performing at the same level of ability | ||
Mental Age / Chronological Age times 100 | ||
The standards used to compare an individual's performance on a test with the performance of others | ||
The process of establishing norms for a test by giving the same test to a large number of people | ||
Stability of test scores | ||
The degree to which a test measures what it attempts to measure | ||
Tests designed to eliminate cultural biases | ||
general intelligence | ||
7 basic mental abilities (verbal comprehension, numerical ability, memory, inductive reasoning, perceptual speed, verbal fluency, and spatial relations) | ||
8 distinct types of intelligence that are independent from one another:Linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist | ||
3 aspects of intelligence (analytical, creative, practical) |
AP Psychology 7.3 Intelligence
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