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availability heuristic - Answer-estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common hindsight bias - Answerg (general intelligence) - Answer-hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in intellect among people s (specific abilities) - Answer-particular ability level in a narrow domain fluid intelligence - Answer-capacity to learn new ways of solving problems crystallized intelligence - Answer-accumulated knowledge of the world acquired over time multiple intelligences - Answer-idea that people vary in their ability levels across different domains of intellectual skill linguistic intelligence - Answer-speak and write well logico-mathematical intelligence - Answer-use logic and mathematical skills to solve problems such as scientific questions spatial intelligence - Answer-think and reason about objects in three-dimensional space musical intelligence - Answer-perform, understand, and enjoy music Body-Kinesthetic Intelligence - Answer-Manipulate the body in sports, dance, or other physical endeavoursinterpersonal intelligence - Answer-understand and interact effectively with others interpersonal intelligence - Answer-Understand and possess insight into self Naturalistic intelligence - Answer-Recognize, identify, and understand animals, plants, and other living things Analytical Intelligence (Sternberg) - Answer-Book smarts Practical Intelligence (Sternberg) - Answer-street smarts and common sense Creative Intelligence (Sternberg) - Answer-Creativity Stanford-Binet Test - Answer-intelligence test based on the measure developed by Binet and Simon, adapted by Lewis Terman of Stanford University intelligence quotient (IQ) - Answer-systematic means of quantifying differences among people in their intelligence mental age - Answer-age corresponding to the average individual's performance on an intelligence test Deviation IQ - Answer-expression of a person's IQ relative to his or her same-aged peers Eugenics - Answer-movement in the early 20th century to improve a population's genetic stock by encouraging those with good genes to reproduce, preventing those with bad genes from reproducing, or both Wecshler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) - Answer-most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtestsCulture-fair IQ test - Answer-abstract reasoning measure that doesn't depend on language and is often believed to be less influenced by cultural factors than other IQ tests are intellectual disability - Answerdevelopmental psychology - Answer-study of how behavior changes over the lifespan cross-sectional design - Answer-research design that examines people of different ages at a single point in time cohort effect - Answer-effect observed in a sample of participants that results from individuals in the sample growing up at the same time Nature via nurture - Answer-tendency of individuals with certain genetic predispositions to seek out and create environments that permit the expression of those predispositions