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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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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 general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman and other, 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 statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test, used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score
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Factor Analysis
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A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
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Savant Syndrome
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The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
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Creativity
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The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
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Emotional Intelligence
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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.
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Mental Age
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The widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test
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Stanford-Binet
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Defined originally as the ration of mental age (ma) to chron. age (ca) times 100 (thus IQ=ma/ca x 100).
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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
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A test designed to assess what a person has learned
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Achievement Test
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designed to predict a person's future performance (... capacity to learn)
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Aptitude Test
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the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
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Standardization
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The symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psych. attributes.
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Normal Curve
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The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of a test, or on retesting
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Reliability
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The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
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Validity
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extent to which a test samples the behaviour that is of interest
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Content Validity
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The success with which a test predicts the behaviour it is designed to predict assessed by computing the correlation b/w test scores and and criterion behaviour
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Predictive Validity
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A condition of limited mental ability indicated by an i.s of 70 - and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life
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Mental Retardatiion
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A condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of a chrm 21
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Down syndrome
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A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated on a negative stereotype
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Stereotype Threat
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