Across
- 2. the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
- 6. a test designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
- 10. a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet
- 14. the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
- 17. a general intelligence factor that according to Spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test
- 19. the extent to which a test smaples that behavior that is of interest (such as a driving test that smaples driving tasks)
- 20. a test designed to assess what a person has learned
- 22. the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet's original intelligence test
Down
- 1. most widely used intelligence test; containes verbal performance (nonverbal) subtests
- 3. a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
- 4. a statistically procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of a performance that underlie one's total score
- 5. defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group
- 7. a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
- 8. the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict
- 9. 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
- 11. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
- 12. a method for assessing an individual's mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
- 13. IQ was simply a person's mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100
- 15. a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence sccore of 70 ot below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound
- 16. the behavior (such as future college grades) that a test (such as the test) is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity
- 18. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
- 21. a condition of retardation and associated physical disorders caused by an extra chromosome in one's genetic make up
- 23. Curve the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes