AP Psych. Unit 6 Flashcards
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| 6079563963 | Intelligence Test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores | 0 | |
| 6079563964 | Intelligence | mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations | 1 | |
| 6079563965 | 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 | 2 | |
| 6079563966 | 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 a person's total score | 3 | |
| 6079563967 | Savant Syndrome | a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing | 4 | |
| 6079563968 | Emotional Intelligence | the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions | 5 | |
| 6079563969 | 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 | 6 | |
| 6079563970 | Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test | 7 | |
| 6079563971 | Intelligence Quotient (IQ) | 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 | 8 | |
| 6079563972 | Achievement Tests | a test designed to assess what a person has learned | 9 | |
| 6079563973 | Aptitude Tests | a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn | 10 | |
| 6079563974 | Standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group. | 11 | |
| 6079563975 | Normal Curve | (normal distribution) a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data; most scores fall near the mean, or average (68 percent fall within one standard deviation of it), and fewer and fewer near the extremes | 12 | |
| 6079563976 | Reliability | the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on retesting | 13 | |
| 6079563977 | Validity | the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to | 14 | |
| 6079563978 | Content Validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as a driving test that samples driving tasks) | 15 | |
| 6079563979 | 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.) | 16 | |
| 6079563980 | Intellectual Disability | (formerly referred to as 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. | 17 | |
| 6079563981 | Down Syndrome | a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 | 18 | |
| 6079563982 | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests | 19 |