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Investigating Intelligence - chapter 1 Keywords
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- 1Individual differencesAny characteristics that are susceptible to variation between individuals; for example, personality or intelligence.
- 2Test normsBenchmarks used to assess an individual's performance on intelligence tests. They offer insight into how a person's test score compares with the scores of other test takers from the same population.
- 3Intelligence quotient (IQ)A score on an intelligence test which indicates how a person's intellectual ability compares to the general population.
- 4PsychometricsA field of study in psychology concerned with psychological measurement of things like attitudes, personality traits, mood or intelligence.
- 5Crystallised intelligenceThe ability to apply acquired skills, knowledge and experience to novel situations.
- 6g, or general intelligenceThe factor believed to underpin performance on different tasks in an intelligence test.
- 7Normal distributionThe assumption that characteristics which vary between people will be distributed across the population in such a way that values at or close to the average will be more frequent than extreme ones.
- 8PersonalityA person's stable and enduring traits and characteristics (e.g. whether they are outgoing, assertive, perceptive or emotional) which lead them to behave in a steady way over time.
- 9Battery of testsA series of tests aimed at measuring the same thing, such as intelligence.
- 10ValidityThe extent to which a test measures what it has been designed to measure.
- 11CorrelationA measure of an association between two events or things. In the case of an intelligence test, this means that those who performwellonone task will also do well on another.
- 12Test standardisationThe process of establishing test norms by administering the test to a large sample of the population for which the test is intended.
- 13CraniometryThe study of people's intellectual abilities based on the shape and size of their head.
- 14InnateRelating to a behaviour, ability, disposition or characteristic that is present from birth rather than being acquired through experience.
- 15Lewis Terman''s IQ Formula(Mental age / chronological age) x 100
- 16NeurologyThe scientificstudy of the brain and the nervous system.
- 17Confirmatory biasWhen a scientist's expectations unconsciously influence the outcome of their research. This occurs because of the tendency to pay most attention to those features of a phenomenon that appear to confirm prior expectations.
- 18Working memoryThe kind of memory that is used for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out a task.
- 19ScaleA term which, in the context of intelligence research, is often used instead of the word 'test'. In psychology, the word 'scale' refers to any set of questionnaire items or tasks which combine to measure a bigger construct that cannot be measured directly, such as intelligence or personality
- 20Fluid intelligenceThe ability to think logically and solve problems, which is independent of acquired knowledge or experience
- 21TheoryA set of propositions about a psychological phenomenon (e.g. intelligence) which formsthe basisofan explanation.
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