Chapter 11 Intelligence Malika Stanley Period Five AP Psychology Mr. Bodine ( The Great One) Intelligence is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and adapt to new situations. Psychologists agree that people have specific abilities, such as verbal and mathematical aptitudes. However, they debate whether a general intelligence (g) factor runs through them all. Factor analysis and studies of special conditions, such as the savant syndrome- a condition in which a person otherwise limited in …showed first 75 words of 629 total…

…showed last 75 words of 629 total…explanations of gender differences in specific aptitudes. Aptitude test are designed to predict how well a test taker will react in a given situation. So they are necessarily biased in the sense that they are sensitive to performance differences caused by cultural experience. But bias can also mean predicting less accurately for one group than for another. In this sense of the term, most experts do not consider major aptitude test to be significantly biased.