Across
- 5. 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
- 12. standard of comparison for test results developed by giving the test to large, well-defined groups of people
- 13. standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is average
- 14. the ability to acquire new ideas and new behavior, and to adapt to new situations
- 15. believed that a person’s intelligence needed to be a measurement of all seven mental abilities and not just a measurement of one factor
- 17. the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
- 18. in addition to yielding one overall score, the Wechsler tests yield percentile scores in several areas—vocabulary, information, arithmetic, picture arrangement, and so on
Down
- 1. rejects the traditional idea of intelligence as primarily the ability to think logically and argues for a broader perspective that includes eight types of intelligence
- 2. involves a person’s ability to perform complex mental work, such as problem solving
- 3. centers on applying and using knowledge
- 4. centers on inventing and designing
- 6. proposes that two factors contribute to an individual’s intelligence
- 7. represents a person’s specific mental abilities, such as verbal or math skills
- 8. to stimulate and maintain the child’s interest, several tasks are included, ranging from defining words to drawing pictures and explaining events in daily life
- 9. centers on analyzing, comparing, and evaluating
- 10. includes four major aspects of interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences
- 11. proposes that intelligence can be divided into three ways of processing information
- 16. the ability of a test to give the same results under similar conditions