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| a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life, varies from mild to profound |
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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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| the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions. |
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| a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. |
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| a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to indentify different dimenstions of performance that underlie one's total score. |
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| the summetrical 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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| to regard an abstract concept as a concrete entity. |
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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 an retesting. |
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| defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group. |
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| facotr 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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| Sternberg's triarchic theory |
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| intelligence theory that distinguishes three main types of intelligence analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence. |
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| the amount of variation in a trait within a group that is attributed to genetic factors. |
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| the behavior (such as future college grades) that a test (such as the SAT) is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity. |
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| the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest (such as a drivign test that samples driving tasks). |
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| brain areas know to be involved in memory, attention, and language. |
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| the overall improvement of intelligence test scores since 1930's; sometimes attributed to improved nutrition and increasing years of schooling over the last 50 years. |
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| a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic makeup. |
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| the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is suppose to. |
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| the widely used American revision of Alfred Binet's original intelligence test. |
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| a test designed to assess what a person has learned. |
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| type of thinking that solves problems that have multiple possible answers. |
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| a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as computation or drawing. |
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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 the criterion behavior. |
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| a method of assessing an individual's nmental aptiutudes and comparing them with those of others, using numrical scores. |
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| type of thinking that solves questions which demand single correct answers. |
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| Weschsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
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| the most widely used intelligence test; containes verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests. |
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| a test designed to predict a person's future performance. |
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| a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically responds to a given level of performance. |
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| intelligence quotient (IQ) |
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| the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100; the average performance for a given age is assigned to a score of 100. |
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