Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

The use of psychological tests to measure the mind and mental processes.

a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test;

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the ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions.

a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance. Thus, a child who does as well as the average 8-year-old is said to have a mental age of 8.

The American revision (created by Lewis Terman) of Binet's original intelligence test.

tests designed to assess what a person has learned (AP exam, your test on this unit)

tests designed to predict a person's future performance (SAT, GRE)

the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance

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states that intelligence exists in a number of sensory modalities (styles and abilities), rather than as a single ability

defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group.

the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores

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the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.

the extent to which a test has information on it that it should

the success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior

our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during adulthood - starts around age 25 :-( "technology"

(formerly referred to as mental retardation) a condition of limited mental ability, indicated by an intelligence score of 70 or below and difficulty in adapting to the demands of life; varies from mild to profound.

a condition of intellectual disability and associated physical disorders caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21)

Adapted the intelligence test created by Alfred Binet to fit the needs of US students. The revised test was called the Stanford-Binet test and measures IQ; studied the "Termites"

theorist who proposed that intelligence consisted of both general intelligence, ability to do complex work like problem solve and intelligence which included specific mental abilities, ability to do verbal or math skills

proposed that intelligence consisted of 7 different primary mental abilities: spatial ability, verbal comprehension, word fluency, perceptual speed, numerical ability, inductive reasoning, memory; showed evidence of g factor, but he was against Spearman

Harvard researcher that has identified at least eight types of intelligences: linguistic, logical/mathematical, bodily/kinesthetic, musical, spatial (visual), interpersonal (the ability to understand others), intrapersonal (the ability to understand oneself), and naturalist (the ability to recognize fine distinctions and patterns in the natural world).

coined term "eugenics" - can we measure "natural ability" - and then "encourage" people with highest intel to mate with each other?

the indvidual that published the first measure of intelligence in 1905. The purpose of his intelligence test was to correctly place students on academic tracks in the French school system.

WAIS and WISC

a person's capacity to learn

Does the test yield similar results when it is readministered?

studies done over a long period of time with the same person or group of people (called a cohort)