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level: Individual Differences in Intelligence

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level questions: Individual Differences in Intelligence

Question	Answer
A measure of a person's intellectual development relative to his age group	Mental Age
Biological age from birth	Chronological age
Mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100	Intelligence Quotient
Frequency distribution of IQ tends to fall in a bell shaped curve	Normal curve
The 2% of the population which has IQ above 130	Intellectually Gifted
The 2-3% of population that has an IQ below 70	Intellectually Disabled
AAMD	American Association Mental Deficiency
Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behaviour and manifested during the developmental period	Intellectual Disability
Person's capacity to be independent and deal effectively with one's environment	Adaptive Behaviour
Exceptional general ability shown in superior performance in a variety of areas	Giftedness
Narrower term referring to remarkable ability in a specific field	Talent
Test which can be administered to one person at a time e	Individual Intelligence test
Test that can be administered to several persons simultaneously	Group intelligence test
Tests that require subjects to give verbal responses either orally or in a written form	Verbal test
Tests which use pictures or illustrations as test items	Non-verbal tests
Tests that require subjects. to manipulate objects and other materials to perform a task	Performance tests
Tests that do not discriminate against individuals belonging to different cultures	Culture fair tests
National Library of Educational and Psychological Tests	NLEPT