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Chapter 10: Intelligence Flashcards

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The ability to use one’s mind to solve novel problems and learn from experience

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Intelligence

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Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon developed…

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First Intelligence Test to identify children who needed remedial education

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A statistic obtained by dividing a persons mental age by a persons physical age (developed by Lewis Terman)

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Ratio IQ

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Deviation IQ

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A statistic obtained by dividing an adults test score by the average adults test score then multiplying by 100 (developed by Lewis Terman)

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A persons performance on a test is due to a combination of general ability and skills that are specific to the test

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Two factor Theory

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One of the first people to measure intelligence and used discriminatory measures to measure intelligence

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Henry Goddard (1866-1957)

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William Stern

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Coined the term “mental age”

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Lewis Terman

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Developed Modern IQ Test (ratio and deviation IQ)

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Tests were originally developed for…

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Noble reasons, mainly to help underprivileged children

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Aptitude tests like the SAT’s are measuring…

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Your potential to learn (how good you can become)

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Achievement tests like a driving test measure…

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What knowledge you know right now

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Crystallized Intelligence

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Ability to apply knowledge that was acquired through experience (taking a class)

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Refers to the ability to solve problems and reason about normal problems

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Fluid Intelligence

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The ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to enhance reasoning

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Emotional Intelligence 
(very important for people to have emotional intelligence as it helps with social skills)
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Fraternal Twins

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Also known as dizygotic twins, twins who develop from two different eggs that were fertilized by different sperm

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Identical Twins

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Also known as monozygotic twins, twins who develop from the splitting of a single egg that was fertilized by a single sperm

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What do intelligence test scores correlate with?

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Successful life events, accomplishments, general cognitive ability

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Shared Environment

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Features of an environment that are experienced by all relevant members of a household

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Features of the environment that are not experienced by all relevant members of a household

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Non-shared Environment

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Analytic Intelligence

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Problem Solving

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Novel Solutions

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New or unusual solution to a problem

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Practical Intelligence

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Every day

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Louis Thurstone

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Believed that intelligence is composed of seven independent factors inc.. (word fluency, verbal comprehension)

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John Carroll (1916-2003)

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Found patterns of correlation with the crystallized and fluid intelligence

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Argued for three kinds of intelligence: analytic, creative and practical

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Robert Sternberg

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Howard Gardner

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Argued for 8 different forms of intelligence incl: linguistic, logical, mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily, kinesthetic

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Prodigy

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Person of normal intelligence who has extroadinary ability

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Person of low intelligence who has extroadinary ability

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Salvant

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The fear of confirming the negative beliefs that others may hold

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Stereotype Threat

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Cognitive Enhancers

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Drugs that improve the psychological processes that underlie intelligent performance

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Intelligence is influenced by both

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Nature and Nuture

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This person conducted some of the first studies of intelligence in famous families and he argued that intelligence is inherited

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Sir Francis Galton

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Relative Intelligence

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We learn from our environment, and understand our experiences

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Absolute Intelligence

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The power to possess the a limitless level of intelligence

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The Flynn Effect

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average intelligence test scores rise over 0.3% every year

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“Culturally Free”

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Means that it does not matter what your ethnicity is or background as the test is fair. Ex: the WAIS Test is culturally free

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