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Tests that are designed to determine what one has already learned.
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achievement tests
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Tests that predict the ability to learn new skills.
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aptitude tests
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An approach to intelligence that contends that different cognitive abilities are distinct but correlated.
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factor approach
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A general intelligence that exists in people, underlying specific intelligences or abilities that may vary across individuals.
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"g" factor
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A single number used to describe an individual's intelligence, originally computed by dividing the individual's mental age by his or her chronological age and dividing by 100.
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intelligence quotient (IQ)
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Impaired intellectual functioning combined with impaired social functioning.
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mental retardation
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Form of mental retardation in which affected individuals can, with help, achieve up to about a sixth grade level of functioning as well as develop vocational skills sufficient to work regularly.
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mild mental retardation
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Form of mental retardation in which affected individuals can develop skills up to the second grade level (as adults) and may learn to perform unskilled labor with supervision.
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moderate mental retardation
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The most devastating form of mental retardaton, in which affected individuals require close supervision and highly structured environments.
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profound mental retardation
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The phenomenon in which an abstract concept is eventually viewed as reality itself.
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reification
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Form of mental retardation in which affected individuals may learn to talk, count, read a few key words, & develop basic hygiene & self-care skills.
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severe mental retardation
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