Module 25
Terms
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- intelligence
- learn from experience- solve the problems - use knowledge to adapt to new situations
- general intelligence
- (shortened to g) ? - Special abilities that stand out in an individual
- savant syndrome
- low on intelligence state yet have an island of brilliance
- creativity
- the ability to produce noel and valuable ideas
- emotional intelligence
- self-aware people who perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
- intelligence test
- test one's mental aplitude and compare with those of overs
- mental age
- 4th grade reading leve...still.
- Stanfor-Binet
- revised intelligence test
- intelligence quotient (IQ)
- yes.
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
- most widely used Int. test - verbal & nonverbal subsets
- aptitude test
- designed to predict future performance
- achievement test
- determine what a person has learned
- standardization
- defining scores due to those of a pretested group
- normal curve
- bell-shaped scale to see where people fall (extreme, avg, extreme)
- reliability
- test yields consistent results
- validity
- test measures or predicts what it's supposed to
- content validity
- tests behavior of interest (driving test)
- predictive validity
- is the test successful in predicting success?
- heritability
- attributing intelligence to genes