AP Psych Intelligence Vocabulary

1. ______ a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound.

• Intellectual disability

• Autism spectrum disorder

• Attention deficit disorder

• Learning disability

2. ______ defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

• Standardization

• Evaluation

• Estimation

• Interpretation

______ a general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

• g factor (general intelligence)

• IQ score

• emotional intelligence

• multiple intelligences

______ the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, or on retesting.

5. ______ a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.

• Down syndrome

• Turner syndrome

• Klinefelter syndrome

• Fragile X syndrome

6. ______ the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure or predict.

• Validity

• Reliability

• Objectivity

• Feasibility

7. ______ a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score.

• Factor analysis

• Regression analysis

• Standard deviation

• Random sampling

8. ______ tests designed to assess what a person has learned.

• Achievement tests

• Aptitude tests

• Personality tests

• Intelligence tests

9. ______ the widely used American revision of Binet’s original intelligence test.

• Stanford-Binet

• Wechsler-Bellevue

• Raven's Progressive Matrices

• Cattell Culture Fair

10. ______ mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

• Intelligence

• Creativity

• Memory

• Emotion