Across
- 5. the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes.
- 8. most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests
- 9. defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
- 14. the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
- 16. 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.
- 19. the idea that our abilities are malleable qualities that we can cultivate and grow
- 21. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
- 22. intelligence quotient; mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100
- 23. a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
- 24. the ability of a trait to be passed down from one generation to the next
- 25. a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another
- 28. a test designed to assess what a person has learned
- 29. The rise in average IQ scores that has occurred over the decades in many nations
- 31. the widely used American revision of Binet's original intelligence test.
Down
- 1. a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
- 2. a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound
- 3. our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood
- 4. a general intelligence factor that underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test
- 6. our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age
- 7. a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score.
- 10. consistency of measurement
- 11. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
- 12. the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
- 13. research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period
- 15. passion and perseverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
- 17. a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
- 18. a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21.
- 20. a group of people from a given time period
- 26. a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
- 27. a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
- 30. the idea that we have a set amount of an ability that cannot change