Across
- 4. the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors
- 7. assesses an individual’s characteristics and identifies problems
- 8. a limited- or forced-choice test in which a person must select one of several answers
- 11. an unstructured test in which a person is asked to respond freely, giving his or her own interpretation of various ambiguous stimuli
- 13. includes four major aspects of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences
- 14. measures how much a person has learned in a given subject or area
- 15. standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is average
- 16. estimates the probability that a person will be successful in learning a specific new skill
- 17. standard of comparison for test results developed by giving the test to large, well-defined groups of people
Down
- 1. proposes that two factors contribute to an individual’s intelligence
- 2. an aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions may be more familiar to people of one social group than to another group
- 3. the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
- 5. proposes that intelligence can be divided into three ways of processing information
- 6. the ability to acquire new ideas and new behavior, and to adapt to new situations
- 9. system ranking of test scores that indicates the ratio of scores lower and higher than a given score
- 10. the ability of a test to give the same results under similar conditions
- 12. measures a person’s preferences and attitudes in a wide variety of activities to identify areas of likely success