Chapter 11 AP Psychology

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Across
  1. 2. The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
  2. 4. A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
  3. 6. Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested "standardization group."
  4. 7. Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
  5. 8. A type of test, assessment, or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population, with respect to the trait being measured.
  6. 11. Inventor of the first usable intelligence tests.
  7. 14. Developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
  8. 19. The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict
  9. 20. The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
  10. 21. 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.
Down
  1. 1. Inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test, and studied eugenics.
  2. 3. The single common variance or factor that is common to different intelligence tests.
  3. 5. The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions.
  4. 9. The chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance.
  5. 10. A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test
  6. 12. One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
  7. 13. The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
  8. 15. The most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
  9. 16. A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
  10. 17. A test designed to predict a person's future performance, aptitude is the capacity to learn.
  11. 18. The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.