Chapter 10 - Intelligence

Question 1

What is intelligence?

Answer 1

Intelligence is the ability to learn from experiences, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Question 2

What is Charles Spearman’s (g) factor?

Answer 2

Spearman’s (g) factor is a general mental ability that underlies multiple specific skills, including verbal, spatial, numerical, and mechanical.

Question 3

What’re Gardner’s multiple intelligences?

Answer 3

Intelligence consists of multiple abilities, there is eight relatively independent intelligences, and there is evidence with savant syndrome and autistic individuals.

Question 4

What’re Gardner’s eight intelligences?

Answer 4

Interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, linguistic, mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and a new ninth - existential intelligence.

Question 5

What’re Sternberg’s three intelligences?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Emotional intelligence consists of four abilities. What are they?

Answer 6

Perceiving emotions, understanding them, managing them, and using them to enable adaptive or creative thinking.

Question 7

What is crystalized intelligence?

Answer 7

Recalling stored knowledge and past experiences.

Question 8

What is fluid intelligence?

Answer 8

Comprehension, reasoning, and problem solving.

Question 9

What is grit? And what is an example?

Answer 9

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)

Question 10

What is an achievement test?

Answer 10

An achievement test is a test that see how well a person has learned.

Question 11

What is an aptitude test?

Answer 11

A test designed to predict your ability to learn a new skill.

Question 12

What is the difference between an achievement test and an aptitude test?

Answer 12

An achievement test tests you on how well you have learned, whereas an aptitude test sees how well you “can” learn a new skill.

Question 13

Who created the IQ test?

Answer 13

German psychologist William Stern.

Question 14

What is the IQ test?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

What is Wechsler’s adult intelligence scale?

Answer 15

It’s the most widely used individual intelligence test, and it consists of using similarities, vocabulary, block design, and letter/number sequencing.

Question 16

What is Wechsler’s adult intelligence scale?

Answer 16

It’s the most widely used individual intelligence test, and it consists of using similarities, vocabulary, block design, and letter/number sequencing.

Question 17

What is the Flynn effect?

Answer 17

IQ scores increase from one generation to another.

Question 18

What is the gender gap?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

What is a growth mindset?

Answer 19

Intelligence is changeable, it increases with effort, and it makes teens resilient when frustrated by others.

Question 20

Charles Spearman suggested we have one _____ ______underlying success across a variety of intellectual abilities.

Answer 20

General intelligence

Question 21

The existence of savant syndrome seems to support what?

Answer 21

Gardner’s multiple intelligences

Question 22

Sternberg’s three types of intelligences are ____,____ and ____.

Answer 22

Analytical, creative, and practical intelligence

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

D - succeed in their careers

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

C - how the test taker compares with other adults in vocab and arithmetic.