Psychology Quiz #9

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Intelligence

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mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations

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intelligence test

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a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores

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intelligence quotient (IQ)

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defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ=ma/ca) * 100)

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General intelligence

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a general intelligence factor that Spearman and others believed underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence

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crystallized intelligence

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knowledge that one has acquired from experience; the type of info acquired through formal education

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fluid intelligence

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knowledge involving one's ability to solve problems, reason abstractly, and learn new things

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factor analysis

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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

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normal curve

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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

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reliability

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the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting

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validity

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the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to

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content validity

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the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as a driving test that samples driving tasks)

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criterion

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The behavior that a test is designed to predict. Therefore, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity.

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Predictive validity

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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 criterion behavior.