Psychological Testing

4. the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors
7. assesses an individual’s characteristics and identifies problems
8. a limited- or forced-choice test in which a person must select one of several answers
11. an unstructured test in which a person is asked to respond freely, giving his or her own interpretation of various ambiguous stimuli
13. includes four major aspects of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences
14. measures how much a person has learned in a given subject or area
15. standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is average
16. estimates the probability that a person will be successful in learning a specific new skill
17. standard of comparison for test results developed by giving the test to large, well-defined groups of people

1. proposes that two factors contribute to an individual’s intelligence
2. an aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions may be more familiar to people of one social group than to another group
3. the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
5. proposes that intelligence can be divided into three ways of processing information
6. the ability to acquire new ideas and new behavior, and to adapt to new situations
9. system ranking of test scores that indicates the ratio of scores lower and higher than a given score
10. the ability of a test to give the same results under similar conditions
12. measures a person’s preferences and attitudes in a wide variety of activities to identify areas of likely success