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18 Cards in this Set
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thinking skills and the ability to adapt to and learn from life's everyday experiences
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intelligence
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an individual's level of mental development relative to others.
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mental age (MA)
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an individual's mental age divided by 100; devised in 1912 by William Stern.
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intelligence quotient (IQ)
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Spearman's theory that individuals have both general intelligence, which he called g, and a number of specific intelligences, referred to as s.
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two-factor theory
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a statistical procedure that correlates test scores to identify underlying clusters, or factors.
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factor analysis
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L. L. Thurstone's theory that intelligence consists of seven primary mental abilities: verbal comprehension, number ability, word fluency, spatial visualization, associative memory, reasoning, and perceptual speed.
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multiple-factor theory
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Sternberg's theory that intelligence consists of compotential intelligence, experiential intelligence, and contextual intelligence.
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triarchic theory of intelligence
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the ability to perceive and express emotions accurately and adaptively, to understand emotion and emotional knowledge, to use feelings to facilitate thought, and to manage emotions in oneself and others.
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emotional intelligence
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the fraction of the variance in a population that is attributed to genetics.
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heritability
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an overall developmental score that combines subscores on motor, language, adaptive, and personal-social domains in the Gesell assessment of infants.
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developmental quotient (DQ)
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Developed by Nancy Bayley, these scales are widely used in assessing infant development.
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Bayley Scales of Infant Development
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accumulated information and verbal skills, which increase with age, according to Horn.
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crystallized intelligence
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the ability to reason abstractly, which steadily declines from middle adulthood on , according to Horn.
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fluid intelligence
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a condition of limited mental ability in which the individual (1) has a low IQ, usually below 70 on a traditional intelligence test; (2) has difficulty adapting to everyday life; and (3) has an onset of these characteristics by age 18.
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mental retardation
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having high intelligence (an IQ of 130 or higher) or superior talent for something.
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gifted
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the ability to think in novel and unusual ways and come up with unique solutions to problems.
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creativity
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thinking that produces many answers to the same question; characteristic of creativity
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divergent thinking
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thinking that produces one correct answer; characteristic of the kind of thinking required on conventional intelligence tests.
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convergent thinking
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