intellegence

Intelligence

• a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score.
• the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
• the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
• the 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.

General Intelligence

• a group of people sharing a common characteristic, such as from a given time period.
• a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score.
• the proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of populations and environments studied.
• according to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

Factor Analysis

• a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score.
• the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
• in psychology, grit is passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals.
• the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. (See also content validity and predictive validity.)

Savant Syndrome

• a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
• defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca × 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
• the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
• a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.

Grit

• the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
• the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
• in psychology, grit is passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals.
• the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Emotional Intelligence

• the _______________ and its companion versions for children are the most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
• a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
• the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
• our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood.

Intelligence Test

• the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
• a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score.
• a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
• the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.

Achievement Test

• research that follows and retests the same people over time.
• the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test.
• a test designed to assess what a person has learned.
• our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.

Aptitude Test

• the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
• 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. (Also called criterion-related validity.)
• a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence test score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life. (Formerly referred to as mental retardation.)
• a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.

Mental Age

• the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
• the 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.
• a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age. Thus, a child who does as well as an average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.
• the proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of populations and environments studied.