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| Reliability | the ability of a test to give the same results under the similar conditions |
| Validity | the ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure |
| Percentile system | a system for ranking test scores that indicates the ratio of scores lower and higher than the given score |
| Norms | standards of comparison for test results developed by giving the test to large, well- defined groups of people expected from group members |
| Intelligence | the ability to acquire new ideas and new behavior, learn from experience, and adapt to new situations |
| Two-factor theory | Charles Spearman’s theory of intelligence that proposes that two factors contribute to an individuals intelligence |
| Triarchic theory | Robert Sternberg’s theory of intelligence that proposes that intelligence can be divided into three ways of processing information |
| Emotional intelligence | the ability to perceive, imagine, and understand emotions and to use that information in decision making |
| Intelligence quotient | standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is defined as average |
| Heritability | a measure of the degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors |
| Cultural bias | an aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions and the experiences on which social group than to another group |
| Aptitude test | an instrument used to predict or estimate the probability that a person will be successful in learning a specific new skill or skills in the future |
| Achievement test | an instrument used to measure the amount of knowledge a person has learned in a given thing by saying it out loud or to themselves repeatedly |
| Interest inventory | measures a persons preferences and attitudes in a wide variety of activities |
| Personality test | an instrument used to measure a persons traits, behaviors, and unobservable characteristics and to identify problems |
| Objective test | a limited- or forced-choice test(in which a person must select one of several answers) designed to study personality characteristics |
| Projective test | an unstructured test of personality in which a person is asked to respond freely, giving his or her own interpretation of various ambiguous stimuli |
