AP Psychology Vocab - Intelligence Flashcards
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| 5949581885 | Achievement tests | tests designed to assess what a person has learned. | 0 | |
| 5949581886 | Aptitude tests | tests designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn | 1 | |
| 5949584240 | Content validity | the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest | 2 | |
| 5949584241 | Creativity | the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas | 3 | |
| 5949584242 | Down syndrome | a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. | 4 | |
| 5949586123 | Emotional intelligence | The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. | 5 | |
| 5949586124 | 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. | 6 | |
| 5949586125 | 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. | 7 | |
| 5949586126 | Intelligence | the ability to learn from experience, to use information, to understand things | 8 | |
| 5949588589 | Intelligence quotient (IQ) | Numerical measurement of intelligence, usually accomplished by some form of standardized testing. | 9 | |
| 5949588590 | Intelligence test | a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores. | 10 | |
| 5949588591 | Mental age | a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance | 11 | |
| 5949588592 | 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 | 12 | |
| 5949590678 | 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. | 13 | |
| 5949590679 | 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. | 14 | |
| 5949590680 | Reliability | Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings | 15 | |
| 5949590681 | Savant syndrome | Very gifted in some forms of intelligence, but sufficiently lacking in others | 16 | |
| 5949594152 | Standardization | defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group | 17 | |
| 5949594153 | Stanford-Binet | the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test. | 18 | |
| 5949594154 | Stereotype threat | a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype | 19 | |
| 5949594155 | Validity | The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. | 20 | |
| 5949597593 | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) | the WAIS is the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests | 21 | |
| 5949597594 | Crystallized Intelligence | One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age | 22 | |
| 5949597595 | Fluid Intelligence | One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood. | 23 |