Chapter 10 - Intelligence Flashcards
What is intelligence?
Intelligence is the ability to learn from experiences, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
What is Charles Spearman’s (g) factor?
Spearman’s (g) factor is a general mental ability that underlies multiple specific skills, including verbal, spatial, numerical, and mechanical.
What’re Gardner’s multiple intelligences?
Intelligence consists of multiple abilities, there is eight relatively independent intelligences, and there is evidence with savant syndrome and autistic individuals.
What’re Gardner’s eight intelligences?
Interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, linguistic, mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and a new ninth - existential intelligence.
What’re Sternberg’s three intelligences?
Analytical - so on an academic sense (eg, intelligence tests)
Creative - the ability to adapt to new situations and generate novel ideas.
Practical intelligence - every day tasks.
Emotional intelligence consists of four abilities. What are they?
Perceiving emotions, understanding them, managing them, and using them to enable adaptive or creative thinking.
What is crystalized intelligence?
Recalling stored knowledge and past experiences.
What is fluid intelligence?
Comprehension, reasoning, and problem solving.
What is grit? And what is an example?
Grit is what drives us to be better, its passion and perseverance for long-term goals. An example would be myself - I am in school to become a teacher (my biggest goal in life)
What is an achievement test?
An achievement test is a test that see how well a person has learned.
What is an aptitude test?
A test designed to predict your ability to learn a new skill.
What is the difference between an achievement test and an aptitude test?
An achievement test tests you on how well you have learned, whereas an aptitude test sees how well you “can” learn a new skill.
Who created the IQ test?
German psychologist William Stern.
What is the IQ test?
The IQ test is a person’s mental age divided by chronological age and then multiplied by 100. Most people fall between 85-115, and it’s usually out of 100.
What is Wechsler’s adult intelligence scale?
It’s the most widely used individual intelligence test, and it consists of using similarities, vocabulary, block design, and letter/number sequencing.
What is Wechsler’s adult intelligence scale?
It’s the most widely used individual intelligence test, and it consists of using similarities, vocabulary, block design, and letter/number sequencing.
What is the Flynn effect?
IQ scores increase from one generation to another.
What is the gender gap?
Gender differences are minor, however, girls outplace boys in spelling, verbal fluency, locating objects, and having better emotion detectors. Boys are better at math and spatial ability.
What is a growth mindset?
Intelligence is changeable, it increases with effort, and it makes teens resilient when frustrated by others.
Charles Spearman suggested we have one _____ ______underlying success across a variety of intellectual abilities.
General intelligence
The existence of savant syndrome seems to support what?
Gardner’s multiple intelligences
Sternberg’s three types of intelligences are ____,____ and ____.
Analytical, creative, and practical intelligence
Emotionally intelligent people tend to
A - seek immediate gratification
B - understand their own emotions but not those of others.
C - understand others’ emotions but not their own.
D - Succeed in their careers.
D - succeed in their careers
The Wechsler adult intelligence scale is best able to tell us
A - what part of an individual intelligence is determined by genetic inheritance
B - whether the test taker will succeed in a job
C - how the test taker compares with other adults in vocabulary and arithmetic reasoning
D - whether the test taker has specific skills for music and the performing arts.
C - how the test taker compares with other adults in vocab and arithmetic.
