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| the application of cognitive skills and knowedge to learn, solve problems, and obtain ends that are valued by an individual or culture |
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| tests that qunatify psychological attributes ersonality traits or intellectual abilities |
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| measures designed to assess an individual level of cognitive capabilities compared to other people in a population |
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| a score orginally devired by dividing mental age and chronological age and multiplying by 100, but now generally established by comparing the individual perormance to norms of people his or her own age |
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| wechsler adult intelligence scale, third edition |
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| an intelligence tests for adults that yields for bith verba and nonverbal IQ scores |
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| wechsler intelligence scale for children, fourth edition |
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| an intelligence test for children up to 16 that yields verbal and nonverbal IQ scores |
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| wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence, third edition |
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| intelligence test for children ages 3 to 7 that yields scores for both verbal and nonverbal IQ scores |
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| significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with defecits in adaptive behavior and mainfested during childhood |
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