Chapter 10 Module (Intellegence) Flashcards
Intellegence
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
General Intellegence (g)
Spearman.
Intellegence underlying all mental abilities and therefore measured by every task on an intellegence test.
Supported by Thurstone’s tests on the 7 primary mental abilities.
Fluid Intellegence
Our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease with age, epecially during late adulthood.
Crystallized Intellegence
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory
The theory that our intellegence is based on g as well as specific abilities, bridged by Gf and Gc.
Gardner
Eight (maybe nine) relatively indpendent intellegences.
Everyone smart in their own way - teaching tool.
Savant Syndrome
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or drawing.
Majority autistic males.
Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
Analytical Intellegence
Creative Intellegence
Practical Intellegence
Gardner and Sternberg Similarities
Multiple abilities can contribute to life success.
Differing varieties of giftedness offer challenges for education.
Markers of Success
General intellegence, grit, and deliberate practice.
Falls under Gardner and Sternberg theories.
Social Intellegence
The know-how invovled in understanding social situations and managing yourself
Emotional Intellegence
a part of social intellegence
Made of four abilities:
1. Perceiving emotions
2. Understanding emotions (predicting, changing, and blending).
3. Managing emotions (expressing and handling others)
4. Using emotions (to facilitate adaptive or creative thinking).
Intellegence Test
A method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others, using numerical scores.
Achievement Tests
Intended to reflect what you ahve learned.
ex. Final exam
Aptitude Tests
Intended to predict what you will be able to learn.
Aptitude: Capacity to learn.
ex. Entrance exam
Mental Age
Intellegence test by Binet.
To help support children in school.
Level of performance typically associated with children of a certain chronological age.
ex. A child who does as well as an average 8 year old is said to have a mental age of 8.
Stanford-Binet
The widely used American revision (by Terman at Stanford) of Binet’s original intelligence test.
Also to help children - but Terman loved eugenics.
Intellegence Quotient (IQ)
Developed by William Stern from Binet.
Used for eugenics in America.
Original: Mental age/chronological age x 100
Current: Test-takers performance relative to the average performance of others the same age.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
WAIS and companion versions for children are the most widely used intelligence tests.
Help identify areas for improved support.
contain verbal and performance (nonverbal) subtests including:
- similarities
- Vocabulary
- Block Design
- Letter-number sequencing
For a test to be widely accepted?
Standardized
Reliable
Valid
Standardization
Defining uniform testing procedures and meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretetested group.
Testing a representative group to provide a baseline score.
Normal Curve
The bell shaped pattern of a typical list of test-taking scores.
Curve’s highest point is the average.
Reliability
The extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternative forms of the test, or on retesting.
Validity
The extent to which the test actually measures or predicts what it promises.
