Assessment of Intelligence

Question 1

proponents of binet-simon test

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alfred binet and theodore simon

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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

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disabilities in african-americans

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a scathing critique of the intelligence movement and of the “reification” of the notion of intelligence

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the mismeasure of man

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resurfaced the heated debate during the 1990s

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the bell curve

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the three classes of the definition of intelligence

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adjustment or adaptation to the environment
ability to learn
abstract thinking

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father of factor analysis

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spearman

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g and s factors

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general and specific intelligence

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who presented evidence for a series of “group” factors rather than the almighty g factor.

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thurstone

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he also described two important second-order factors that seem to represent a partitioning of Spearman’s g into two components

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Cattell

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spearman’s g in two components:

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fluid and crystallized abilities

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cattell’s approach is described

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a hierarchical model of intelligence

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Guilford proposed a [ ] and then used a variety of statistical and factor analytic techniques to test it

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structure of the intellect model

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Guilford reasoned that the components of intelligence could be organized into three dimensions:

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operations, contents, and products

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cognition, memory, divergent production (constructing logical alternatives), convergent production (constructing logic-tight arguments), and evaluation

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operations

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involves the areas of information in which the operations are performed: figural, symbolic, semantic, and behavioral

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content

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when a particular mental operation is applied to a specific type of content, there are six possible [ ]: units, classes, systems, relations, transformations, and implications

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products

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Guilford’s approach is a [ ] or [ ] rather than a theory

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taxonomy or classification

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A major criticism of Gardner’s theory is that some of his proposed “intelligences” may be better conceptualized as [ ] than as forms of intelligence

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talents

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who proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence

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Sternberg

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the [ ] aspect refers to analytical thinking; high scores would
characterize the person who is a good test-taker.

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componential

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the [ ] aspect relates to creative thinking and characterizes the person who can take separate elements of experience and combine them insightfully

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experiential

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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

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contextual

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Binet regarded the [ ] as an index of mental performance, that really only represented the number of items passed in the test

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mental age

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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

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intelligence quotient

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the ratio IQ is significantly limited in its application to [ ]

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older age groups

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Wechsler introduced the concept of [ ]

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deviation IQ

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With the assumption that intelligence is normally distributed throughout the population, a [ ] then involves a comparison of an individual’s performance on an IQ test with that of his or her age peers.

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deviation IQ

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correlates of IQ

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school success
occupational status and success
demographic group success

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shows that the average IQ of humans steadily increases over time

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flynn effect

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the clinical use of intelligence tests

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• The Estimation of General Intellectual Level.
• Prediction of Academic Success.
• The Appraisal of Style

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IQ is an [ ]

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abstraction