intelligence test

noun, Psychology

any of various tests, as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet test, designed to measure the intellectual capacity of a person.

Origin

1910-15

Examples from the web for intelligence test

It revealed the rising trend line in intelligence test scores.
Furthermore, any intelligence test will probably identify people based on economic status, not thought process.
His efforts to create a new intelligence test have not been crowned with easy victory.
Intriguingly, these bright students did much worse when they considered it an intelligence test.
Yet another reason to require an intelligence test of all prospective jurors.
It's a pity an intelligence test is only discriminating near its middle scores.
Initial differences in intelligence test scores were observed.

British Dictionary definitions for intelligence test

noun

any of a number of tests designed to measure a person's mental skills See also Binet-Simon scale

Encyclopedia Article for intelligence test

series of tasks designed to measure the capacity to make abstractions, to learn, and to deal with novel situations

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