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22 Cards in this Set
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Cognitive Ability
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The capacity to reason, remember, understand, solve problems, and make decisions.
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Intelligence
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Those attributes that center around skill at information processing, problem solving, and adapting to new or changing environments
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Stanford-Binet
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A test for determining a person's intelligence quotient, or IQ
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IQ Test
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A test designed to measure intelligence on an objective, standardized scale.
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Verbal Scale
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Subtests in Wechsler tests that measure verbal skills as part of a measure of overall intelligence
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Performance scale
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Subtests in Wechsler tests that measure spatial ability and the ability to manipulate materials as part of a measure of overall intelligence
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Intelligence Quotient
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An index of intelligence that reflects the degree to which a person's score on an intelligence test deviates from the average score of others in the same age group
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Aptitude test
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A test designed to measure a person's capacity to learn certain things or preform certain tasks.
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Achievement Test
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A measure of what a person has accomplished or learned in a particular area
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Test
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A systematic procedure for observing behavior in a standard situation and describing it with the help of a numerical scale or a category system
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Norm
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A description of the frequency at which particular scores occure, allowing scores to be compared statistically
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Psychometric Approach
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A way of studying intelligence that emphasizes analysis of the products of intelligence, especially scores on intelligence tests
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A general intelligence factor that Charles Spearman postulated as accounting for positive correlations between people's scores on all sorts of cognitive ability tests
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S
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A group of special abilities that Charles Spearman saw as accompanying general intelligence
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Fluid Intelligence
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The basic power of reasoning and problem solving
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Crystallized Intelligence
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The specific knowledge gained as a result of applying fluid intelligence
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Information Processing Approach
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An approach to the study of intelligence that focuses on mental operations, such as attention and memory, that underlie intelligent behavior
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Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
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Robert Sternberg's Theory that describes intelligence as having analytic, creative, and practical dimensions
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Multiple Intelligences
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Eight semi-independent kinds of intelligence postulated by Howard Gardner.
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Creativity
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The capacity to produce new, high quality ideas or products
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Divergent Thinking
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The ability to think along many alternative paths to generate many different solutions to a problem
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Convergent Thinking
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The ability to apply logic and knowledge to narrow down the number of possible solutions to a problem or preform some other complex cognitive task
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