Psychology Exam 3: Intelligence, Assessment, and Mindsets

Vocabulary flashcards covering WAIS-5 components, test standardization and validity, intelligence across aging, Dweck's mindsets, and score stability across development.

Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS 5)

The most widely used intelligence test today, which produces an overall score and 4 index scores.

Similarities (WAIS)

A verbal comprehension subtest that asks in what way two things are alike.

General information (WAIS)

A verbal comprehension subtest assessing the degree of general information acquired from culture.

Comprehension (WAIS)

A verbal comprehension subtest measuring the understanding of abstract social conventions, rules, and expressions.

Digit span

A working memory subtest that requires repeating a series of digits forwards and backwards.

Letter number sequence

A working memory subtest where an examinee repeats a sequence of letters and numbers while arranging the letters in alphabetical order.

Perceptual reasoning

A WAIS index score category assessed by subtests such as block design.

Processing speed

A WAIS index score category assessed by tasks such as choosing which image completes a design.

Standardization

The process of first administering a test to a representative sample of people so that an individual's score can be compared to others.

Test reliability

The characteristic of a test demonstrating whether taking the test several times yields similar scores.

Content validity

The extent to which a test actually measures what it is supposed to measure.

Predictive validity

The extent to which a test predicts what it is supposed to predict.

Crystalized intelligence

Accumulative knowledge reflected in vocabulary and analogy tests that increases as an individual ages up to old age.

Fluid intelligence

The ability to reason speedily and abstractly (such as when solving unfamiliar logic problems), which declines gradually until age 75 and more rapidly after age 85.

Fixed mindset (Dweck, 2012, 2015)

The belief that intelligence is unchangeable.

Growth mindset (Dweck, 2012, 2015)

The belief that intelligence is changeable.

Intelligence stability before age 3

The stage of life when casual observation and intelligence tests only modestly predict future aptitudes.

Intelligence stability by age 4

The developmental point at which intelligence test performance begins to predict adolescent and adult scores.

Intelligence stability by age 11

The developmental point marked by remarkable stability of aptitude scores.