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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
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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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factor analysis
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a general intelligence factor that according to Spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.
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general intelligence (g)
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a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
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savant syndrome
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the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
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emotional intelligence
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the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
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creativity
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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 test
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a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8
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mental age
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the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.
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Stanford-Binet
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defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ-ma/ca x 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
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intelligence quotient (IQ)
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a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
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aptitude test
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a test designed to assess what a person has learned
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achievement test
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most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
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defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group
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standardization
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the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes teh distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewed and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
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normal curve
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