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| Standardized measure of a sample of a person's behaviour |
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| Measure general mental ability. |
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| Assess specific types of mental abilities. |
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| Gauge a person's mastery and knowledge of various subjects (ex. reading, english, or history) |
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| Measure various aspeccts of personality, including motives, interests, values, and attitudes. |
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| Refers to the uniform procedures used in the administration and scoring of a test. |
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| Provide information about where a score on a psychological test ranks in relation to other scores on that test. |
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| Indicates the percentage of people who score at or below the score one has obtained. |
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| Refers to the measurement consistency of a test (or of other kinds of measurement techniques) |
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| Numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables. |
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| Refers to the ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure. |
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| Refers to the degree to which the content of a test is representative of the domain it's supposed to cover. |
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| Criterion-related Validity |
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| is estimated by correlating subjects' scores on a test with their scores on an independent criterion (another measure) of the trait assessed by the test. |
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| the extent to which there is evidence that a test measures a particular hypothetical construct. |
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| indicated that he or she displayed the mental ability typical of a child of that chronological (actual) age. |
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| Intelligence Quotient (IQ) |
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| is a child's mental age divided by chronological age, multiplied by 100. |
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| Symetric, bell-shaped, curve that represents the pattern in which many characteristics are dispersed in the population. |
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| locate subjects precisely within the normal distribution, using standard deviation as the unit of measurement. |
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| Mental Retardation or Intellectual disability |
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| subnormal general mental ability accompanied by deficiencies in adaptive skills, originating before age 18. |
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| Estimate of the proportion of trait variability in a population that is determined by variations in genetic inheritance. |
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| Refer to the genetically determined limits on IQ (or other traits). |
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| In factor analysis, Correlation among many variables are analyzed to identify |
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| A person is intelligent if they spend a great deal of time (during their whole lives) learning and exploring new ideas |
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Yang & Sternberg
5 factors of intelligence |
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cognitive - mental process ability
interpersonal - intelligence between us
intrapersonal - intelligence within
intellectual self assertion - defend and uphold knowledge and truth
Intellectual self facement - open to criticism |
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nonverbal reasoning
verbal reasoning
rote memory - ability to hold memories in your mind |
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waking up and recognizing the world around you
Have determination
Feelings and opinions are part of intelligence |
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| Intelligence in Africa revolved largely around skills that help to facilitate and maintain harmonious and stable intergroups and intragroup relations |
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| Adults in Zambia emphasize social responsibilities, cooperativeness and obedience as important to intelligence; intelligent children are expected to be respectful of adults |
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| Kenya emphasize responsible participation in family and social life as important aspects of intelligence |
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| In Zimbabwe, the work intelligence means to be prudent and cautious, particularly in social relationships |
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| Yoruba emphasize the importance of depth (listening rather than talking) to intelligence, and of being able to see all aspects of an issue and to place the issue in its proper overall context |
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Francis Galton
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Two general qualities
energy- how much effort can you put in? someone who is intelligent can put effort in for long periods of time
Sensitivity- ability to clearly and accurately perceive your environment
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