AP Psychology Chapter 11

5242936	intelligence	mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
5242937	factor analysis	a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie one's total score.
5242938	general intelligence	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.
5242939	savant syndrome	a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
5242940	emotional intelligence	the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
5242941	creativity	the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
5242942	intelligence test	a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
5242943	mental age	a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.
5242944	Stanford-Binet	the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.
5242945	intelligence quotient	defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca × 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
5242946	aptitude test	a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
5242947	achievement test	a test designed to assess what a person has learned.
5242948	Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale	the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
5242949	standardization	defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group.
5242950	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 and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
5242951	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.
5242952	validity	the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. (See also content validity and predictive validity.)
5242953	content validity	the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as a driving test that samples driving tasks).
5242954	criterion	the behavior (such as future college grades) that a test (such as the SAT) is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity.
5242955	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.)
5242956	mental retardation	a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound.
5242957	Down syndrome	a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup.
5242958	stereotype threat	a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.