Assessment of Intelligence Flashcards
proponents of binet-simon test
alfred binet and theodore simon
civil rights suit (larry p. vs. wilson riles) led the state board of education in 1975 to impose a moratorium about the use of intelligence tests to assess
disabilities in african-americans
a scathing critique of the intelligence movement and of the “reification” of the notion of intelligence
the mismeasure of man
resurfaced the heated debate during the 1990s
the bell curve
the three classes of the definition of intelligence
adjustment or adaptation to the environment
ability to learn
abstract thinking
father of factor analysis
spearman
g and s factors
general and specific intelligence
who presented evidence for a series of “group” factors rather than the almighty g factor.
thurstone
he also described two important second-order factors that seem to represent a partitioning of Spearman’s g into two components
Cattell
spearman’s g in two components:
fluid and crystallized abilities
cattell’s approach is described
a hierarchical model of intelligence
Guilford proposed a [ ] and then used a variety of statistical and factor analytic techniques to test it
structure of the intellect model
Guilford reasoned that the components of intelligence could be organized into three dimensions:
operations, contents, and products
cognition, memory, divergent production (constructing logical alternatives), convergent production (constructing logic-tight arguments), and evaluation
operations
involves the areas of information in which the operations are performed: figural, symbolic, semantic, and behavioral
content
when a particular mental operation is applied to a specific type of content, there are six possible [ ]: units, classes, systems, relations, transformations, and implications
products
Guilford’s approach is a [ ] or [ ] rather than a theory
taxonomy or classification
A major criticism of Gardner’s theory is that some of his proposed “intelligences” may be better conceptualized as [ ] than as forms of intelligence
talents
who proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence
Sternberg
the [ ] aspect refers to analytical thinking; high scores would
characterize the person who is a good test-taker.
componential
the [ ] aspect relates to creative thinking and characterizes the person who can take separate elements of experience and combine them insightfully
experiential
the [ ] aspect is seen in the person who is “street smart”—one who is practical, knows how to play the game, and can successfully manipulate the environment
contextual
Binet regarded the [ ] as an index of mental performance, that really only represented the number of items passed in the test
mental age
stern developed the concept of [ ] to circumvent several problems that had arisen in using the difference between the chronological age (CA) and the MA to express deviance
intelligence quotient
