Key Terms

Carolina Abecedarian Project

comprehension monitoring

crystallized intelligence

dyslexia

fluid intelligence

Flynn effect

g (general intelligence)

gesture-speech mismatches

IQ (intelligence quotient)

mathematical equality

mental model

multiple intelligences theory

normal distribution

numerical magnitude representations

phonemic awareness

phonological recoding skills

primary mental abilities

script

self-discipline

standard deviation (SD)

strategy-choice process

symbolic numerical magnitudes

theory of successful intelligence

three-stratum theory of intelligence

visually based retrieval

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)