Unit 5 Pt. II Vocab

INTELLIGENCE

• ACCORDING TO SPEARMAN AND OTHERS, UNDERLIES ALL MENTAL ABILITIES AND IS THEREFORE MEASURED BY EVERY TASK ON AN INTELLIGENCE TEST.

• THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE, UNDERSTAND, MANAGE, AND USE EMOTIONS.

• A METHOD FOR ASSESSING AN INDIVIDUAL’S MENTAL APTITUDES AND COMPARING THEM WITH THOSE OF OTHERS, USING NUMERICAL SCORES.

• THE ABILITY TO LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE, SOLVE PROBLEMS, AND USE KNOWLEDGE TO ADAPT TO NEW SITUATIONS.

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. 

• RELIABILITY

• CONTENT VALIDITY

• PREDICTIVE VALIDITY

• VALIDITY

 IN PSYCHOLOGY, THIS IS PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE IN THE PURSUIT OF LONG-TERM GOALS.

STEREOTYPE THREAT

• A CONDITION OF MILD TO SEVERE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND ASSOCIATED PHYSICAL DISORDERS CAUSED BY AN  EXTRA COPY OF CHROMOSOME 21

• OUR ABILITY TO REASON SPEEDILY AND ABSTRACTLY ; TENDS TO DECREASE WITH AGE, ESPECIALLY DURING LATE ADULTHOOD.

• OUR ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE AND FERGAL SKILLS; TENDS TO INCREASE WITH AGE. 

  
  

• A SELF-CONFIRMING CONCERN THAT ONE WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON A NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE. 

  
  

DEFINED ORIGINALLY AS THE RATIO OF MENTAL AGE (MA) TO CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (FCA) MULTIPLIED BY 100. ON CONTEMPORARY INTELLIGENCE TESTS, THE AVERAGE PERFORMANCE FOR A GIVEN AGE IS ASSIGNED A SCORE OF 100. 

• Mental Age

• Stanford-Binet

• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

• Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

A CONDITION IN WHICH A PERSON OTHERWISE LIMITED IN MENTAL ABILITY HAS AN EXCEPTIONAL SPECIFIC SKILL, SUCH AS IN COMPUTATION OR DRAWING.

A TEST DESIGNED TO ASSESS WHAT A PERSON HAS LEARNED.

• Assessment Test

• Aptitude Test

• Intelligence Test

• Achievement Test

THE EXTENT TO WHICH A TEST SAMPLES THE BEHAVIOR THAT IS OF INTEREST. 

• Content Validity

• Validity

• Reliability

• Predictive Validity

 THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE, UNDERSTAND, MANAGE, AND USE EMOTIONS. 

• Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence

• General Intelligence

• Street Smarts

A CONDITION OF MILD TO SEVERE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND ASSOCIATED PHYSICAL DISORDERS CAUSED BY AN  EXTRA COPY OF CHROMOSOME 21.

• DOWN SYNDROME

• INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY