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| diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability |
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| capacity to understand hypothetical concepts |
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| (general intelligence)hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in intellect among people |
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| (specific abilities) particular ability level in a narrow domain |
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| capacity to learn new ways of solving problems |
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| crystallized intelligence |
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| accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time |
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| idea that people vary in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill |
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| model of intelligence proposed by Robert Sternberg positing three distinct types of intelligence: analytical, practical, and creative |
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| intelligence test based on the measure developed by Binet and Simon, adapted by Lewis Terman of Stanford University |
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| intelligence quotient (IQ) |
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| systematic means of quantifying differences among people in their intelligence |
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| age corresponding to the average individual's performance on an intelligence test |
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| expression of a person's IQ relative to his or her same-aged peers |
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| movement in the early twentieth century to improve a population's genetic stock by encouraging those with good genes to reproduce, preventing those with bad genes from reproducing, or both |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) |
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| most widely used intelligence test for adults today, consisting of 15 subtests to access different types of mental abilitites |
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| abstract reasoning measure that doesn't depend on language and is often believed to be less influenced by cultural factors than other IQ tests |
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| distribution of scores in which the bulk of the scores fall toward the middle, with progressively fewer towards the tails or extremes |
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| condition characterized by an onset prior to adulthood, an IQ below about 70, and an inability to engage in adequate daily functioning |
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| finding that average IQ scores have been rising at a rate of approximately 3 points per decade |
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| within-group heritability |
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| extent to which the variability of a trait within a group is genetically influenced |
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| between-group heritability |
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| extent to which differences in a trait between groups is genetically influenced |
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| tendency of a test to predict outcomes better in one group than another |
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| fear that we may confirm a negative group stereotype |
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| capacity to generate many different solutions to a problem |
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| capacity to generate the single best solution to a problem |
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| ability to understand our own emotions and those of others, and to apply this information to our daily lives |
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| application of intelligence toward a common good |
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| ideological immune system |
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| our psychological defenses against evidence that contradicts our views |
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