10.4

Question 1

define intelligence

Answer 1

an individual’s ability to understand complex ideas
- adapt to enviro
- learn from experience
- reasoning
- overcome obstacles

Question 2

intelligent quotient (IQ) - the equation

Answer 2

divide children’s mental age by chronological age and multiply by 100

Question 3

what does a contemporary intelligent assessment do?

Answer 3

places individual performance on a statistically normal curve

Question 4

General intelligence (g)

Answer 4

a measure of an individual’s overall abilities

Question 5

what can’t general intelligence theories explain?

What does the “separability” of intelligences suggest?

Answer 5

splinter skills (a task that does not generalize to other tasks) that occur against a background of lower IQ

=> intelligence is a combination of factors rather than one single thing

Question 6

multiple intelligences

Answer 6

single skills that tend to show low correlations with one another AND general intelligence

=>strong musical abilities but low IQ score

Question 7

emotional and social intelligence

Answer 7

ability to manage emotions and reason about other people’s states of mind

Question 8

what supports(evidence) emotional and social intelligence?

Answer 8

clinical case studies (brain damage, psychological disorder,intellectual disability)

=> people with ASD have outperforming intellectual abilities but lower social abilities