Mrs. Maynard's AP Psychology Class- Chapter 11 Intelligence

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