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| What are the controversies in and beyond psychology? |
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| The memory, gender, and intelligence war. |
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| What is an 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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| What is measured by every task on an intelligence test? |
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| A general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities |
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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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| A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (factors) on a test. |
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| What does factor analysis identify? |
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| Different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score. |
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| What are Sternberg's three intelligences? |
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| Analytical (academic problem-solving), creative, practical. |
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| What is emotional intelligence? |
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| The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. |
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| Who devised the mental age test? |
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| A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a level of performance. |
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| What is the mental age of a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old? |
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| What is the Stanford-Binet? |
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| The widely used American version (by Terman at Stanford University)of Binet's original intelligence test. |
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| What is the Intelligence Quotient? |
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| IQ; defined originally as the ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100. (IQ=ma/cax100) |
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| What is the score of the average performance for a given age on contemporary IQ tests? |
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| What are achievement tests? |
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| Tests designed to assess what a person has learned. |
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| Tests designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn. |
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| What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale? |
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| WAIS; the most widely used intelligence test, contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests. |
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| Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group. |
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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, or on retesting. |
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| The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. |
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| What is an intellectual disability formerly referred to as and what is it? |
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Mental Retardation
A condition of limited mental ability indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life |
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| A condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of the chromosome 21. |
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| What are some examples of things which intelligence varies among genders? |
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| Spelling, verbal ability, nonverbal memory, sensation, emotion-detecting ability, math and spacial aptitudes, and greater male variability. |
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| What is the average IQ for whites versus blacks, and the average for Hispanics? |
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Whites-roughly 100
Blacks-Roughly 85
Hispanics-Between whites and blacks |
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| What are some factors which have influenced the fact that today's intelligence test performances exceed that of the 1930's performances? |
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| Today's population is better fed, better educated, and more test prepared. |
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| What has helped reveal that races are remarkably alike under the skin? |
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| What is revealed when whites and blacks have or receive the same pertinent knowledge? |
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| They exhibit similar information-processing skill. |
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| What is a stereotype threat? |
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| A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. |
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| What is content validity? |
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| The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest. |
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| What is predictive validity? |
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| The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict. |
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