Intelligence Ch8P2

6. The most widely used intelligence tests; they contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests
7. 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
9. This is defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100
10. The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
12. This is required for everyday tasks that may be poorly defined and may have multiple solutions.
13. Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
14. A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age.
15. The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.
16. A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
19. This is a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many types of data
20. A mindset focused on learning and growing
21. This is a condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing
22. He views intelligence as multiple abilities that come in different packages.
23. This underlies all mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test.

1. A test designed to predict a person’s future performance;
2. A type of intelligence that is demonstrated in innovative smarts: the ability to adapt to new situations and generate novel ideas.
3. This is the proportion of variation among people in a group that we can attribute to genes.
4. A type of intelligence that is assessed by intelligence tests, which present well-defined problems having a single right answer.
5. A mindset focused on not changing or growing
8. Your ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, especially during late adulthood
11. This is your accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
17. Is the defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
18. Test A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores