Chapter 11 Flashcards
Viewing an abstract immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
Reification
Intelligence
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
Factor analysis
A statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items on a test, used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie ones total score.
Charles spearman
Helped develop factor analysis and general intelligence.
General intelligence (G Factor)
A factor that according to spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is there for measured by every task on an intelligence test.
L. L. Thrustone
Rejected the g factor didn’t rank his subjects on a single scale of general aptitude. 7 mental abilities
Howard Gardner
Stated that people have specific intelligence potential each involving a set of problem solving skills. 8 multiple intelligences different sections.
A condition in which a person otherwise limited in mental ability had an exceptional specific skill. (Autism, great at one thing!) easy a
Savant syndrome
Robert sternberg
Triarchic theory distinguishes three intelligences: analytical, creative, and practical.
Emotional intelligence
The ability to precise and understand manage and use emotions.
The ability to produce novel and valuable ideas.
Creativity
Intelligence test
A method of assessing an individuals mental aptitudes.
Alfred Binet
Started the modern intelligence movement by developing questions that helped predict children’s future progress
Mental age
A measure of intelligence test performance devised by Binet. The chronological age that most typically corresponded to a give level of performance.
Stanford university prof. Revised binets original IQ test by establishing new age norms and extending the upper end of the tests range from teens to adults.
Lewis terman
Stanford Binet
The widely used American version of binets original intelligence test.
IQ Intelligence quotient
Defined originally as the ratio of mental age (ma) to chronological age (ca) multiplied by 100. IQ=ma/ca*100
A test designed to predict a persons future performance, aptitude is the capacity to learn.
Aptitude tests
A test designed to assess what a person has learned
Achievement tests.
Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)
The most widely used intelligence test, contains verbal and performance subtests.
Standardization
Defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group.
Intelligence test performance has been improving
The Flynn effect
Normal curve
Symmetrical bell shaped scarce that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes
Reliability
The extent to which a test yields consistent results as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test or on retesting
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
Validity
The extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest
Content validity
Criterion
The behavior that a test is designed to predict thus defining whether the test has predictive validity.
Predictive validity
The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict
Mental retardation
Condition of limited mental ability
Condition of retardation mainly physically caused by and extra chromosome.
Down syndrome
Stereotype threat
A self confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
