Chapter 9
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- Define as multifaceted capacity that manifests itself in different ways across the life span.
- He believed that the most intelligent persons were those equipped with the best sensory abilities.
- He argued that when one solves a particular problem, the abilities used cannot be separated because they interact to produce the solution.
- For him intelligence is the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully , to think rationally and to deal effectively with his environment.
- For him intelligence may be conceived of as a kind of evolving biological adaptation to the outside world.
- Refers to the complex concept by which heredity and environment are presumed to interact and influence the development of one's intelligence.
- He developed and published the Primary Mental Abilities (PMA).
- deemed to constitute intelligence.
- The focus is on identifying the specific mental processes that constitute intelligence.
- All of the abilities listed in a stratum are subsumed by or incorporated in the strata above.
- Acquired skills and knowledge and their retrieval.
- Nonverbal, relatively culture free, and independent of specific instruction.
- It decline with age and tend to return preinjury levels following brain damage.
- Tend not to decline with age and may return to preinjury levels following brain damage.
- The model was the product of efforts designed to improve the practice of psychological assessment in education.
- Assessment that employs tests from different test batteries and entails interpretation of data from specified subtests to provide a comprehensive assessment.
- This approach focuses on the mechanisms by which information is processed how information is processed rather than what is processed.
- Information is integrated all at one time.
- Each bit of information is individually processed in sequence.
- It was the first published intelligence test to provide organized and detailed administration and scoring instructions.
- The age level at which an individual appears to be functioning intellectually as indicated by the level of items.
- It is the ratio of the test taker's mental age divided by his or her chronological age, multiplied by 100 to eliminate decimals.
- Reflects a comparison of the performance of the individual with the performance of others of the same age in the standardization sample.
- A test organized into subtests by category of item.
- Defined as a test score or index derived from the combination of and/or a mathematical transformation of one or more subtest score.
- Refers to a test that has been abbreviated in length.
- A psychological dimension that characterizes the consistency with which one acquires and process information.
- A deductive reasoning process that entails recall and consideration of facts.
- Reasoning process in which thought is free to move in many different directions, making several solutions possible.
- The extent to which a test incorporates the vocabulary, concepts, traditions, knowledge, and feelings associated with a particular culture.
- Test or assessment process that is designed to minimize the influence of culture with regard to various aspects of evaluation procedure.
- This test would be administered to Army recruits who could read.
- Designed for administration to foreign-born recruits with poor knowledge of English or to illiterate recruits.
- An instrument or procedure used to identify a particular trait or constellation of traits at gross or imprecise level.
- A shorthand reference to the progressive rise intelligence test scores that is expected to occur on a normed test intelligence from the date when the test was first normed.