Chapter 10: Intelligence Flashcards
Intelligence vs. Education?
Intelligence
-Deals with the ease with which you learn
Education
-Deals with how much you have learned
What is intelligence?
Set of cognitive skills that includes abstract thinking, reasoning, problem solving, and ability to acquire knowledge
What is Raymond Cattel’s theory of intelligence?
Two Factor theory of intelligence
Fluid Intelligence: raw mental ability, how quickly you learn
-Decreases with age
Crystallized Intelligence: Knowledge from experience
-Increases with age
What is Charles Spearman’s theory of intelligence?
G-factor - general factor made up of specific components (s-factors)
Asks how intelligent are you rather than how are you intelligent
What is Robert Sternberg’s theory of intelligence?
Triarchic theory of intelligence
- Analytic Intelligence
- Creative Intelligence
- Practical Intelligence
What is Howard Gardner’s theory of intelligence?
8 Distinct Capacities:
1) Linguistic
2) Logical Mathematical
3) Bodily-Kinetic
4) Spatial
5) Interpersonal
6) Intrapersonal
7) Naturalistic
8) Musical
How doe we measure intelligence?
Stanford-Binet IQ Test
Reliability vs. Validity?
Reliability - Do you get consistent results?
Validity - Does it accurately measure what it says it does?
What is predictive validity?
Score on test accurately predicts what you think it would
What is biased testing?
Test more accurately measures one group over another
-Self fulfilling prophecy
What is the nature and nurture of intelligence?
Nature: intellect is inherited (so are intellectual disorders)
Nurture: Intellect affected by environment (fetal development)
What is reaction range?
Different children respond differently to different stimuli
What are convergent thinking problems?
- known solutions
- narrow down to correct answer
- analytical thinking and learned strategies
What are divergent thinking problems?
- no known solutions
- broaden out to novel/creative solutions
