Psychology: Themes and Variations Chapter 9 Vocab Flashcards
Intelligence and Psychological Testing
on pages 334 to 373
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| 1146899414 | Psychological test | A standardized measure of a sample of person's behavior. | 0 | |
| 1146899389 | Intelligence tests | Measure general mental ability. | 1 | |
| 1146899390 | Aptitude tests | Assess specific types of mental abilities. | 2 | |
| 1146899391 | Achievement tests | Gauge a person's mastery and knowledge of various subjects. | 3 | |
| 1146899392 | Personality tests | Measure various aspects of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. | 4 | |
| 1146899393 | Standardization | The uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. | 5 | |
| 1146899394 | Test norms | Information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. | 6 | |
| 1146899395 | Percentile score | Indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. | 7 | |
| 1146899396 | Reliability | The measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques). | 8 | |
| 1146899397 | Correlation Coefficient | A numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables. | 9 | |
| 1146899398 | Validity | The ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure. | 10 | |
| 1146899399 | Content validity | The degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it's supposed to cover. | 11 | |
| 1146899400 | Criterion-related validity | Correlating subjects' scores on a test with their scores on an independent criterion (another measure) of the trait assessed by the test. | 12 | |
| 1146899401 | Construct validity | The extent to which evidence shows that a teat measures a particular hypothetical construct. | 13 | |
| 1146899402 | Mental age | The mental ability typical of a child of that chronological (actual) age. | 14 | |
| 1146899403 | Intelligence quotient (IQ) | Is a child's mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100. | 15 | |
| 1146899404 | Normal distribution | A symmetric, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are dispersed in the population. | 16 | |
| 1146899405 | Deviation IQ scores | Locates subjects precisely within the normal distribution, using the standard deviation as the unit of measurement. | 17 | |
| 1146899406 | Mental retardation | Refers to the subaverage general mental ability accompanied by deficiencies in adaptive skills, originating before age 18. | 18 | |
| 1146899407 | Heritability ratio | An estimate of the proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by variations in genetic inheritance. | 19 | |
| 1146899408 | Reaction range | Genetically determined limits on IQ (or other traits). | 20 | |
| 1146899409 | Emotional intelligence | Consists of the ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion. | 21 | |
| 1146899410 | Creativity | The generation of ideas that are original, novel, and useful. | 22 | |
| 1146899411 | Convergent thinking | In which one tries to narrow down a list of alternatives to converge on a single correct answer. | 23 | |
| 1146899412 | Divergent thinking | In which one tries to expand on the range of alternatives by generating many possible solutions. | 24 | |
| 1146899413 | Reification | When a hypothetical, abstract concept is given a name and then treated as though it were a concrete tangible object. | 25 |