Chapter 13 Choice Board

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Across
  1. 7. proposes the differentiation of human intelligence into specific modalities of intelligence, rather than defining intelligence as a single, general ability
  2. 8. the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
  3. 9. a well-researched and respected test designed to help mental health professionals diagnose mental health disorders and conditions
  4. 10. a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning
  5. 11. an instrument used to predict or estimate the probability that a person will be successful in learning a specific new skill or skills in the future
  6. 14. standards of comparison for test results developed by giving the test to large, well-defined groups of people; shared standards of behavior accepted by and expected from group members
  7. 18. test-an instrument used to measure a person’s traits, behaviors, and unobservable characteristics and to identify problems
  8. 19. the ability of a test to give the same results under similar conditions
  9. 20. an instrument used to measure the amount of knowledge a person has learned in a given subject or area
Down
  1. 1. the ability to perceive, imagine, and understand emotions and to use that information in decision making
  2. 2. the process of making a test uniform, or setting it to a specific standard
  3. 3. a limited- or forced-choice test (in which a person must select one of several answers) designed to study personality characteristics
  4. 4. the ability to acquire new ideas and new behavior, learn from experience, and adapt to new situations
  5. 5. a standardized test that assesses intelligence and cognitive abilities in children, beginning at age two, and in adults
  6. 6. an IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents
  7. 12. an unstructured test of personality in which a person is asked to respond freely, giving his or her own interpretation of various ambiguous stimuli
  8. 13. standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is defined as average
  9. 15. an aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions and the experiences on which they are based may be more familiar to people of one social group than to another group
  10. 16. a measure of the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors
  11. 17. measures a person’s preferences and attitudes in a wide variety of activities