Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
  2. 7. the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet’s original intelligence test
  3. 9. the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests
  4. 12. the ability to produce new and valuable ideas
  5. 14. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowleage to adapt to new solution
  6. 17. according to Spearman and others, un-derlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on a intelligence test
Down
  1. 1. the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
  2. 2. defining scores by comparing them with the performance of a pretested group
  3. 3. the bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.
  4. 5. a test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
  5. 6. a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
  6. 8. the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test
  7. 10. the portion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes
  8. 11. defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100
  9. 13. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
  10. 15. a test designed to assess what a person has learned
  11. 16. a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance