Unit 5 Part 2

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Across
  1. 2. a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence test score of 70 or below and difficulty adapting to the demands of life. (Formerly referred to as mental retardation.)
  2. 5. (an aptitude test) its and its companion versions for children are the most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
  3. 6. defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.
  4. 7. a condition of mild to serve intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
  5. 9. a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age. Thus, a child who does as well as an average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.
  6. 10. the bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
  7. 11. our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood.
  8. 16. according to Spearman and others, underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test
  9. 19. defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100 (thus, IQ = ma/ca * 100). On contemporary intelligence tests, the average performance for a given age is assigned a score of 100.
  10. 21. research that compares people of different ages at the same point in time.
  11. 22. a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative
  12. 23. the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest.
  13. 24. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. (See also content validity and predictive validity.)
  14. 26. the proportion of variation among individuals in a group that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of populations and environment.
  15. 27. the ability to perceive, understand manage, and use emotions.
Down
  1. 1. the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
  2. 3. a test designed to assess what a person has learned
  3. 4. a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
  4. 8. the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet’s original intelligence test.
  5. 12. a test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
  6. 13. the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
  7. 14. a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
  8. 15. in psychology, grit is passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
  9. 17. research that follows and retests the same people over time.
  10. 18. 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. (Also called criterion-related validity)
  11. 20. 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
  12. 25. a group of people sharing a common characteristic, such as from a given time period.