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13 Cards in this Set
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Overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with the environment
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Intelligence
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An approach to evaluating intelligence that uses correlational techniques to determine which tasks are involved in intellectual ability
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factor analysis
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the age level at which a person is functioning cognitively
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mental age
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What is standardization?
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the process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test
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the scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of test takers from the population for which the test is designed
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norms
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What is a representative sample?
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a sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are to be compared, like age
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A bell-shaped graphic representation of date, showing which percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve
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Normal curve
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What is raw score?
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the number of correct answers unconverted
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A score that expresses an individual's position relative to those of others and based on the mean and how scores are distributed around it
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Standard Score
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What is percentile score?
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a score indicating what % of the test population would obtain a lower score
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deviation IQ
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standard IQ test score whos mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages
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reliability
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ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
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validity
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ability to measure what it is supposed to measure
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