| WIS | Wechsler Intelligence Scale |
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| WPPSI | Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence |
| AM | Academic Medicine [journal]; actomyosin; acute myelofibrosis; adult male; adult monocyte; aerospace ... |
| ACOA | adult children of alcoholics |
| ADC | adult day care [facility]; affective disorders clinic; Aid to [Families with] Dependent Children; AI... |
| artificial intelligence | In a nutshell, artificial intellence (AI) is the study of how to create acomputer that can think like a human being. See also expert systems and machine learning. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| measured intelligence | That intelligence which can be ranked relative to an age or peer group quantitative index by use of scores on intelligence tests. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mechanical intelligence | The capacity to understand and manage technical mechanisms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social intelligence | The capacity to understand and manage one's human relations and social affairs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intelligence | The ability to comprehend or understand. Origin: L. Intelligere = to understand (18 Nov 1997) |
| intelligence quotient | <psychology> The psychologist's index of measured intelligence as one part of a two-part determination of intelligence, the other part being an index of adaptive behaviour and including such criteria as school grades or work performance. IQ is a score, or similar quantitative index, used to denote a person's standing relative to his age peers on a test of general ability, ordinarily expressed as a ratio between the person's score on a given test and the score which the average individual of comparable age attained on the same test, the ratio being computed by the psychologist or determined from a table of age norms, such as the various Wechsler intelligence scales. Acronym: IQ (21 Jun 2000) |
| intelligence test | <psychology> A standardised tests that measures the general ability or aptitude for intellectual performance. It involves a systematic method of administration and scoring, used to assess an individual's general aptitude or level of potential competence, in contrast to an achievement test. (21 Jun 2000) |
| abbreviated injury scale | Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the american association for automotive medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include maximum ais (mais), injury severity score (iss), and probability of death score (pods). (12 Dec 1998) |
| absolute scale | An obsolete term for Kelvin scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| activities of daily living scale | A scale to score physical activity and its limitations, based on answers to simple questions about mobility, self-care, grooming, etc; widely used in geriatrics, rheumatology, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Angstrom scale | A table of wavelengths of a large number of light rays corresponding to as many Fraunhofer's lines in the spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baume scale | A hydrometer scale for determining the specific gravity of liquids heavier and lighter than water, respectively: for liquids lighter than water, divide 140 by 130 plus the Baume degree; for liquids heavier than water, divide 145 by 145 minus the Baume degree. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet scale | A measure of intelligence designed for both children and adults. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet-Simon scale | Forerunner of individual intelligence tests, particularly the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale, and sometimes referred to as the Binet scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brazelton's Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale | A scale used by obstetricians, paediatricians, and paediatric psychologists to assess the sensory, motor, emotional and physical development of the neonate, usually beginning at birth or in the first month of life. (05 Mar 2000) |