Across
- 3. the bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes.
- 6. the ability to produce new and valuable ideas
- 7. defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100
- 9. the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests
- 13. according to Spearman and others, un-derlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on a intelligence test
- 14. mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowleage to adapt to new solution
- 15. the widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford University) of Binet’s original intelligence test
- 17. the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
Down
- 1. defining scores by comparing them with the performance of a pretested group
- 2. the portion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes
- 4. the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions
- 5. a test designed to assess what a person has learned
- 8. a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance
- 10. condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
- 11. a test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
- 12. a method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores
- 16. the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test