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9336806945intelligencethe mental potential to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new solutions0
9336806946general intelligence (g)a factor that, according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and it's therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test1
9336806947savant syndromea condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as computation or drawing2
9336806948emotional intelligencethe ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions3
9336806949intelligence testa method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores4
9336806950achievement testa test designed to assess what a person has learned5
9336806951aptitude testa test designed to predict a person's future performance; defined as the capacity to learn6
9336806952mental agethe level of performance typically associated with a certain chronological age7
9336806953Stanford-Binetthe widely used American revision (by Lewis Terman) of Binet's original intelligence test8
9336806954intelligence quotient (IQ)defined originally as the ratio of mental age (MA) to chronological age (CA) multiplied by 1009
9336806955Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)it and it's companion versions for children are the most widely used intelligence tests; contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests10
9336806956StandardizationDefining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with performance of a presented group11

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