Ch. 11 Flashcards
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and used knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Intelligence
Reification
Viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
Factor analysis approach
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test that measures common ability.
Charles Spearman
Factor analysis approach
Charles Spearman
L.L. Thurstone
Rejected g factor. He didn’t rank his subjects on a single scale of general aptitude. Argued that factor analysis revealed SEVEN independent mental abilities.
Howard Gardner
Supports thurstons idea that intelligence comes in multiple forms. Gardner notes that brain damage may diminish one type of ability but not another’s.
Contemporary intelligence theory
Savant Syndrome.
Low IQ score, but has an island of intelligence.
Triarchical theory of intelligence.
Sternberg
Parts of triarchical theory intelligence
Practical, analytical, creative
Intelligence that is assessed by intelligence tests.
Analytical intelligence
Creative intelligence
Intelligence that makes us adapt to novel situations
Intelligence that is needed for everyday
Practical intelligence
Creativity
Ability to produce new and effective solutions to challenges
The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions . Some people claim this as a form of personality
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence components
Perceive emotions, understand emotions, manage emotions, and use emotions.
Recognize emotions in faces, music and stories.
Perceive emotions
Understand emotions
Predict emotions, how they changed and blend.
Express emotions in different situations.
Manage emotions
Use emotions
Utilize emotions to adapt or be creative
A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
Intelligence test
Alfred Binet
Binet personally supported the environmental explanation of intelligence. (Nurture)
Mental age
a measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet; the chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance.
Mental age
Lewis Terman
Terman revised Binet’s original IQ test by establishing new age norms and extending the upper end of the test’s range from teenagers to “superior adults”. Called it the Stanford-Binet. He supported the nature side of the debate.
•IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100
IQ Formula
Aptitude test
test that is intended to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn.
test designed to assess what a person has learned. exams covering what you have learned in this course are achievement tests.
Achievement test
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
The most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests.
defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group.
Standardization
•Flynn effect
Intelligence test performance has been improving.
the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
Reliability
Validity
the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to
the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
Content validity
Criterion
the behavior (such as future college grades) that a test (such as the ACT) is designed to predict; thus, the measure used in defining whether the test has predictive validity.
the success which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict
Predictive validity
Mental retardation
Iq below 70 and difficulty adapting to the normal demands of independent living.
Physical disorder characterized by mental retardation as a result of an extra chromosome in the persons genetic makeup.
Down syndrome
Stereotype threat
A self confirming concern that now will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
