AP Psych Unit 2.4

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Across
  1. 5. the symmetrical 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.
  2. 8. most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests
  3. 9. defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
  4. 14. the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
  5. 16. 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.
  6. 19. the idea that our abilities are malleable qualities that we can cultivate and grow
  7. 21. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
  8. 22. intelligence quotient; mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100
  9. 23. a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
  10. 24. the ability of a trait to be passed down from one generation to the next
  11. 25. a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another
  12. 28. a test designed to assess what a person has learned
  13. 29. The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations
  14. 31. the widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test.
Down
  1. 1. a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
  2. 2. 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
  3. 3. our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood
  4. 4. a general intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test
  5. 6. our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
  6. 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.
  7. 10. consistency of measurement
  8. 11. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
  9. 12. the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
  10. 13. research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period
  11. 15. passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
  12. 17. a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
  13. 18. a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
  14. 20. a group of people from a given time period
  15. 26. a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
  16. 27. a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
  17. 30. the idea that we have a set amount of an ability that cannot change