Unit 2 Intelligence Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. compares people of different ages at the same point in time.
  2. 5. ability to think in images and pictures
  3. 8. ability to work well with and understand others emotionally and socially
  4. 12. a condition of mild to severe intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21
  5. 15. a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by a intelligence test score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life
  6. 17. exams which seek to predict your ability to do well in a certain area
  7. 20. bell-shaped curve describing distribution of many psychological and physical attributes (68%, 95%, 99%)
  8. 22. intellgence test scores can improve
  9. 24. the test gives consistent scores regardless of the tester
  10. 27. our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
  11. 29. students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities
  12. 31. ability to control body movements and handle objects
  13. 32. ratio of mental age to chronological age multiplied by 100
  14. 33. Sternberg's theory of three intelligences
  15. 34. created the WAIS which measures individual scores for verbal comprehension, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed
  16. 35. the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
  17. 36. follow and retest the same people over time
  18. 37. creative intelligence is demonstrated in innovative smarts: the ability to adapt to new situations and generate novel ideas
Down
  1. 2. a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
  2. 3. the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
  3. 4. a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
  4. 6. the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict
  5. 7. ability to understand word meanings and sounds
  6. 9. exams covering what you have learned in this course
  7. 10. the scores are compared against a pretested sample population
  8. 11. a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill
  9. 13. a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person’s total score
  10. 14. passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
  11. 16. ability to think abstractly and see patterns and logic and math
  12. 18. ability to produce and understand pitch, tempo, and rhythm
  13. 19. the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
  14. 21. the test measures what it's supposed to
  15. 23. French psychologist commissioned by the French government to design fair and unbiased intelligence tests to administer to French schoolchildren
  16. 25. academic problem-solving intelligence is assessed by intelligence tests, which present well-defined problems having a single right answer
  17. 26. practical intelligence is required for everyday tasks that may be poorly defined and may have multiple solutions
  18. 28. our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood
  19. 30. at the heart of all our intelligent behavior